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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:
Apr. 04, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Whitley Coventry Warwickshire, GB;

Inventors:

Robert Bird, Worc's, GB;

Paul Darnell, Royal Leamington Spa, GB;

Assignee:

Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Whitley, Coventry, Warwickshire, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/08 (2012.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18172 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 30/18027 (2013.01); B60W 50/082 (2013.01); B60W 50/087 (2013.01); B60W 2520/26 (2013.01); B60W 2540/04 (2013.01); B60W 2540/10 (2013.01); B60W 2550/141 (2013.01); B60W 2550/148 (2013.01); B60W 2720/26 (2013.01); B60W 2720/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a vehicle control system for at least one vehicle subsystem of a vehicle, the system being operable to activate a vehicle launch assist (VLA) function to prevent excessive wheel slip, when the launch assist function is active the system being configured to impose a set of one or more prescribed constraints on an amount of torque applied to one or more wheels of a vehicle, wherein the set of one or more constraints ere determined by reference to information or data in respect of an amount of wheel torque that may be applied before the amount of wheel slip exceeds a prescribed value.


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