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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Mathew Alan Boesch, Plymouth, MI (US);
George Edmund Walley, Novi, MI (US);
Sangeetha Sangameswaran, Canton, MI (US);
J. Anthony Lockwood, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 29/02 (2006.01); F02N 11/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 29/02 (2013.01); F02N 11/084 (2013.01); F02N 11/0829 (2013.01); F02N 2200/061 (2013.01); F02N 2200/123 (2013.01); Y02T 10/48 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stop/start system of a vehicle autostops and autostarts an engine and, in response to an identification of a drive cycle destination indicating that the vehicle will remain parked for at least a predefined period of time, prevents autostopping of the engine during the drive cycle to increase a state of charge of the battery above a nominal target state of charge.