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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Sangeetha Sangameswaran, Canton, MI (US);
Mathew Alan Boesch, Plymouth, MI (US);
George Edmund Walley, Novi, MI (US);
John Anthony Lockwood, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A controller in a stop/start vehicle may anticipate a vehicle stop and engine shutdown event in response to detecting a vehicle approach to an intersection. The controller may disable a power steering system or otherwise prepare vehicle subsystems for shutdown prior to the anticipated shutdown event. The controller may also enable the power steering system in response to anticipating an automatic restart event.
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