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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Warwickshire, GB;
Samuel Rios, Coventry, GB;
Ben Kisiel, Coventry, GB;
JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED, Coventry, GB;
Abstract
A method () and apparatus-for carrying out the method of mitigating fuel in oil in an internal combustion engine of a hybrid electric vehicle, the method comprising: detecting a first engine start of a drive cycle when the vehicle speed is greater than zero (); detecting a temperature of engine oil in the engine at the first engine start of the drive cycle (); determining if the temperature of the engine oil is below an engine oil temperature threshold (); when the temperature of the engine oil is determined to be below the engine oil temperature threshold, inhibiting an engine stop for a first predetermined time period unless the vehicle speed reaches zero ().