Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Denney Vellaramkalayil

Ahmet Cinar

James Weinfurther

Holger Mueller

Lukas Preusser

The invention relates to a circuit for selectively actuating drive elements (), which are operated on direct current, in a motor vehicle by means of half-bridges (). According to the invention, the circuit is designed for selectively actuating eight drive elements () for locking and, respectively, unlocking four doors of the motor vehicle from the outside and/or from the inside. The circuit contains nine half-bridges (), wherein the outputs of eight of the nine half-bridges () are each connected to a first pole of one of the eight drive elements () and the output of the ninth half-bridge () is connected to all second poles of the eight drive elements ().

Circuit for selectively actuating DC motors in a motor vehicle

Methods and systems are provided for a refueling cap locking mechanism. In one example, a method includes unlocking the refueling cap in response to an engine start. The unlocking occurs without a vehicle operator input outside of a request to start the engine.

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Cologne, Germany

Denney Vellaramkalayil