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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Christopher Greiner, Birmingham, MI (US);
Gerhard Dage, Franklin, MI (US);
Halim Wijaya, Canton, MI (US);
Wayne Buescher, Canton, MI (US);
Christopher Greiner, Birmingham, MI (US);
Gerhard Dage, Franklin, MI (US);
Halim Wijaya, Canton, MI (US);
Wayne Buescher, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for environmental management of a vehicle includes the steps of determining certain environmental conditions for the vehicle, and determining when it is desirable to defog the window based on the determined environmental conditions. A status of manual overrides is determined, and at least some automatically controllable functions of an HVAC system are implemented to effect defogging of a vehicle window when it is determined that none of the manual overrides has been selected.