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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

May. 09, 2011
Applicants:

Ryan Abraham Mcgee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Hai Yu, Canton, MI (US);

Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Fazal Urrahman Syed, Canton, MI (US);

Dimitar Petrov Filev, Novi, MI (US);

Inventors:

Ryan Abraham McGee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Hai Yu, Canton, MI (US);

Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Fazal Urrahman Syed, Canton, MI (US);

Dimitar Petrov Filev, Novi, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60K 6/445 (2007.10); B60W 10/26 (2006.01); B60W 20/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60K 6/445 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 10/26 (2013.01); B60W 20/00 (2013.01); B60W 2530/145 (2013.01); B60W 2550/402 (2013.01); B60W 2550/406 (2013.01); B60W 2710/244 (2013.01); B60Y 2400/214 (2013.01); Y02T 10/6239 (2013.01); Y02T 90/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a system augment or improve a distance until charge (DUC) estimation for a vehicle such as a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) by using location information. Such location information may be provided by a global positioning system (GPS) or the like associated with the vehicle. The method and the system generally estimate the DUC value as a function of past driving pattern historical data that is relevant to a current driving situation. To this end, the method and the system ignore past driving pattern historical data that is not relevant to the current driving situation when estimating the DUC value.


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