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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2001
Paul Alan Bauerle, Fenton, MI (US);
Mark Henry Costin, Bloomfield Township, MI (US);
Robert J. Schaller, Brighton, MI (US);
James T. Purcell, Goleta, CA (US);
Robert Charles Simon, Jr., Novi, MI (US);
Mario Vincent Maiorana, Jr., Davisburg, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling a motor vehicle engine having an electronic throttle including positioning the electronic throttle in response to a requested throttle area, determining a fault in the vehicle engine, limiting the throttle area after a fault has been determined to control vehicle speed, limiting acceleration of the vehicle after the fault has been determined, and determining if the engine may be operated at full throttle after the fault has been determined to allow the vehicle to operate in a high power demand application.