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US 9,802,618 B2Granted
Systems and methods for improving manual transmission shifting
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAdam Nathan Banker, Hamid-Reza Ossareh, Baitao Xiao
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Abstract
Systems and methods for improving shifting of a manual transmission coupled to an engine are presented. In one example, a load provided to the engine is increased in response to a transmission gear upshift so that engine speed may be quickly decreased to synchronize with transmission input speed, thereby allowing quicker manual transmission gear shifts.
Claims20
A driveline operating method, comprising:
- receiving sensor input to a controller;
- anticipating a shift of a manual transmission via the controller in response to the sensor input;
- and
- increasing air flow to an engine and a load applied to the engine via the controller based on the anticipation.
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A driveline operating method, comprising:
- receiving sensor input to a controller;
- anticipating a shift of a manual transmission via the controller in response to the sensor input;
- increasing a load applied to an engine via the controller based on the anticipation;
- and
- decreasing the load applied to the engine based on the anticipation in response to an accelerator pedal being applied.
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A vehicle system, comprising:
- an engine;
- a manual transmission coupled to the engine, the manual transmission including a manually operated clutch;
- and
- a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory for increasing a load applied to the engine in response to a gear upshift of the manual transmission and decreasing the load applied to the engine for the gear upshift in response to an accelerator pedal being applied.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.