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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2020
Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies, Llc, Galesburgh, MI (US);
Sujay Kawale, Sedro-Wooley, WA (US);
Eric R. Von Hoene, Galesburg, MI (US);
Justin Keith Griffiths, Clarkston, MI (US);
Cory Snowdin, Mason, MI (US);
Terry Nostrant, Marshall, MI (US);
Nicholas Jelen, Portage, MI (US);
EATON CUMMINS AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Galesburg, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle transmission can perform predictive shifting. Road grade and vehicle path data can be employed to identify a future change in road grade such as a hill. A change in speed relative to a vehicle cruise speed can be estimated or predicted in view of the change in road grade and a current gear. If the change of speed is determined to be outside a performance bound, shift recommendation can be determined to maintain vehicle cruise speed within the performance bound. A controller can alter default gear selection of the transmission in response to receipt of the shift recommendation.