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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2009
Applicants:
Freeman Carter Gates, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Songping Yu, Troy, MI (US);
Sassan Farahmand, Canton, MI (US);
Inventors:
Freeman Carter Gates, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Songping Yu, Troy, MI (US);
Sassan Farahmand, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 47/08 (2006.01); F02B 47/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine having an EGR valve determine a base valve position to deliver a target flow using a stored map and adjust the base position in response to differential pressure across an orifice in the EGR flow to move the valve to a position different from the base position to provide the target flow.