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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2022
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Komatsu America Corp., Chicago, IL (US);
Cummins Inc., Columbus, IN (US);
Henry Todd Young, Erie, PA (US);
Rekha Doddarangaiah Prasad, Warrendale, PA (US);
David John Scott, Washington, IL (US);
Timothy Robert Heller, Germantown Hills, IL (US);
Venkat Jayaraman, Columbus, IN (US);
Abstract
An electric drive system for a vehicle and a method includes determining a headroom target for a drive system of a vehicle that includes an engine. The method includes determining whether a current speed of the engine can be decreased while the engine continues to provide a requested traction output of the drive system, and responsive to determining that the current speed of the engine can be decreased, decreasing the current speed of the engine to a reduced speed while the engine maintains the headroom target determined by the drive system.