Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Thomas Anthony Montgomery

William Stewart Johnston

Bryan Roger Goodman

Damian Porcari

Kevin Michael Swenskowski

Judy Jin

Anatoliy Dubovitskiy

Vasiliy Krivtsov

Sajjad Seyedsalehi

Mahtab Jahanbani Fard

A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to collect (a) ambient weather data, (b) vehicle speed data including at least one of a vehicle speed or an engine speed, and (c) operation data of a climate control subsystem of a vehicle, input the collected data to a regression program trained to output a predicted pressure of refrigerant of the climate control subsystem, the regression program trained with previously determined ambient weather data, data of a previous vehicle speed or a previous engine speed, and previous operation data of the climate control subsystem, determine an actual pressure of the refrigerant in the climate control subsystem, and actuate a component upon determining that a difference between the predicted pressure and the actual pressure falls below threshold.

Enhanced vehicle operation

A classification system () having a controller (), a document storage memory (), and a document input () is used to classify documents (). The controller () is programmed to generate a theme score from a plurality of source documents in a plurality of predefined source documents. A theme score is also generated for the unclassified document. The unclassified document theme score and the theme scores for the various classes are compared and the unclassified document is classified into the classification having the nearest theme score.

Theme-based system and method for classifying documents

A method of determining a switch sequence plan for an electrical system includes the steps of identifying switches for the electrical system and organizing the identified switches within a switch group by defining a coincident group of switches to be closed together or a sequential group of switches to be closed one at a time and by defining a duration of time the switches should be closed. The method also includes the steps of organizing the switch group in a data tree structure for the switch sequence plan and traversing the data tree structure recursively to calculate opening and closing times for the switches within the switch sequence plan. The method further includes the steps of generating a simulation command for setting a position sequence of the switches from the opening and closing times for the switch sequence plan and using commands within the switch sequence plan to operatively control the switches in a simulation of the electrical system.

Method of determining a switch sequence plan for an electrical system

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Thomas Anthony Montgomery