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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2008
Kevin Macfarlane, Northville, MI (US);
Henry A. Rebandt, Canton, MI (US);
Andrew Wong, Kensington, AU;
Alan Henriksen, Queanbeyan, AU;
Peter J. Bradley, Torquay, AU;
Philip J. Wiethe, Jr., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kevin MacFarlane, Northville, MI (US);
Henry A. Rebandt, Canton, MI (US);
Andrew Wong, Kensington, AU;
Alan Henriksen, Queanbeyan, AU;
Peter J. Bradley, Torquay, AU;
Philip J. Wiethe, Jr., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for changing the timing of gear changes of an automatic transmission for a motor vehicle including repetitively updating a current value of a count whose value is a measure of driving behavior, performing an evaluation of driving behavior and updating the current value by a value determined from the evaluation, determining shift schedules that define the occurrence of a gear change to be produced by the transmission, and using the updated current value to establish from among the shift schedules a shift schedule that defines a gear change to be produced by the transmission.