Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Automotive Components Holdings, LLC

Dean T Wisniewski

Xiaohong Nina Duan

Paul Aldighieri

Sohel Anwar

Karl Douglas Vandivier

Jennifer L Brace

Vilay Patel

Charles Michael Broadwater

Mark Schneider

Norman Szalony

Joseph Palazzolo

Hyeongcheol Lee

Clive McKenzie

Gary Monkaba

Todd A Kendall

Hualin Tan

Stephen Shen

Loren C Macklem

Matt Rahaim

W Paul Perkins

A computer-implemented navigation method for identifying one or more points of interest (POI) in a geographic location includes calculating a navigation route and receiving a reference point input. The reference point input may be unrelated to the navigation route and usable for identifying one or more POIs. The method further includes receiving one or more search parameters for searching for one or more POIs with respect to the reference point and identifying the one or more POIs based on the search parameters and reference point. The method also includes presenting the one or more POIs on a vehicle computer display.

Point of interest search, identification, and navigation

A hydraulic coupling system includes a pump, a controller, a clutch assembly, and a valve. The clutch assembly includes an actuator and a multi-disk clutch pack coupled to the actuator. Under the direction of the controller, the pump pressurizes a fluid in the actuator to engage the clutch pack and pumps the fluid through the clutch pack to cool the clutch pack. The valve maintains the fluid pumped to the actuator at a higher pressure than the pressure of the fluid pumped through the clutch pack to cool the clutch.

Hydraulic coupling system

This invention describes a control method for a hydraulic coupling system that includes pressurizing a fluid in an actuator coupled to a multi-disk clutch pack to engage the clutch pack, pumping the fluid through the clutch pack to cool the clutch pack, and controlling one or more valve actuators and one or more pump-motors with a controller. The control method may incorporate pulse width modulation of the actuators, such as the actuators for the pump-motor and valve.

Control of a hydraulic coupling system

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Dean T Wisniewski