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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2009
John Paul Bogema, Flat Rock, MI (US);
Bret Alan Zimmerman, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ed Kulik, Plymouth, MI (US);
James Edwin Blatchford, Northville, MI (US);
John Paul Bogema, Flat Rock, MI (US);
Bret Alan Zimmerman, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ed Kulik, Plymouth, MI (US);
James Edwin Blatchford, Northville, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Controlling a vehicle responsive to reductant conditions is provided. The method for controlling a vehicle having an engine with an exhaust, the exhaust having a reductant injection system including a reductant storage vessel, the engine further having a fuel system including a fuel storage vessel, may include under degraded reductant conditions, restricting vehicle motion in response to a fuel refill of the fuel storage vessel.