Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Edwin D Robertson

Stuart C Salter

Hussein H Berry

Brian James Andonian

Charles William Suter

Majed Samhan Mohammed

Richard Simon Boerema

Anthony Sebastian Riera

Systems and methods for operating a power take off of a vehicle are described. In one example, operation of the power take off may be maintained even when slip of a power take off clutch is detected. In particular, the power take off may be operated at a lower output until the power take off may handle larger loads.

Methods and system controlling a power take off

A vehicle driver interface includes a mode selector, such as a shift lever, and two shift paddles. The shift paddles perform different functions according to which driving mode is selected via the mode selector. In a manual mode, driver activation of one of the shift paddles results in an upshifts and driver activation of the other shift paddle results in a downshift. In a snowplow mode, driver activation of one of the shift paddles shifts the transmission to reverse while driver activation of the other shift paddle shifts the transmission to forward.

Driver interface

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Monroe, MI, United States of America

Edwin D Robertson