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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
David George Farmer, Plymouth, MI (US);
David Oshinsky, Trenton, MI (US);
Stanley Larue Bower, Jr., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A closed throttle position of a vehicle internal combustion engine is determined by storing a plurality of signal values representative of previous foot-off position values of an accelerator pedal ( ) within a normal range of pedal positions, determining a current foot-off position value of the accelerator pedal, comparing the current foot-off position value to an average of the previous stored foot-off position values, and using the average as the closed pedal position to determine a closed throttle position when the comparison is indicative of an abnormal pedal position.