Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Chris Connelly

Chris Edward Pedlar

Urs Christen

Rainer Busch

Ingo Lenz

David Hesketh

Themi Philemon Petridis

Harry Cho

Nicholas Dashwood Crisp

Mark Skilling

Mark Conen

Baekhyun (“Harry”) Cho

A method and system for dealing with a change of mind event during an automatic shut-down of an enginehaving a dual mass flywheelis provided that reduces or eliminates the risk of excessive dual mass resonance during a restart of the engineis disclosed.

System and method for controlling engine restart operation to reduce resonance

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for controlling the speed of a vehicle comprising: during a pulse phase of cruise control, applying engine torque to raise speed, the amount and duration of which being responsive to engine speed; and during a glide phase of cruise control, discontinuing engine combustion. In this way cruise control may maintain a mean speed equivalent to a desired, threshold speed while reducing fuel consumption, and NVH effects felt by the end user compared to traditional cruise control methods.

Vehicle speed control apparatus and method

A method of operating a vehicle powertrain, includes: sensing a vehicle speed; selecting a plurality of control strategies; activating one of the plurality of control strategies, the control strategy including: (i) operating the vehicle in a stationary start-stop mode when the vehicle speed is below a first threshold; and (ii) operating the vehicle in a rolling stationary start-stop mode when the vehicle speed is above the first threshold but below a second threshold.

Method for operating a vehicle powertrain

A system and method for selectively opening a drivetrain of a vehicle is described. In one example, an electrically operated clutch is opened during selected driving conditions to conserve kinetic energy of the vehicle. The method may reduce fuel consumption during selected conditions.

Method and control system for opening the drivetrain of a motor vehicle

A system and method for limiting engine starting current of a starter motor of an engine is described. In one example, starter motor current is controlled according to vehicle speed. The method may allow vehicle system voltage to remain at a higher level during automatically initiated engine starts.

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