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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2015
Applicant:

GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);

Inventors:

Christopher E. Whitney, Commerce, MI (US);

Klaus Pochner, Novi, MI (US);

Julian R. Verdejo, Farmington, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/00 (2006.01); F02D 11/10 (2006.01); F02D 41/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/0002 (2013.01); F02D 11/105 (2013.01); F02D 41/0077 (2013.01); F02D 41/28 (2013.01); F02D 2041/0017 (2013.01);
Abstract

A torque requesting module generates a torque request for an engine based on driver input. A model predictive control (MPC) module: identifies sets of possible target values based on the torque request, each of the sets of possible target values including target pressure ratios across a throttle valve; determines predicted operating parameters for the sets of possible target values, respectively; determines cost values for the sets of possible target values, respectively; selects one of the sets of possible target values based on the cost values; and sets target values based on the possible target values of the selected one of the sets, respectively, the target values including a target pressure ratio across the throttle valve. A target area module determines a target opening area of the throttle valve based on the target pressure ratio. A throttle actuator module controls the throttle valve based on the target opening.


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