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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N 3/00 (2006.01); F02D 41/02 (2006.01); F01N 3/08 (2006.01); F01N 9/00 (2006.01); F02D 41/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/0275 (2013.01); F01N 3/0842 (2013.01); F01N 9/00 (2013.01); F02D 41/1447 (2013.01); F02D 41/1458 (2013.01); F01N 3/0885 (2013.01); F01N 2430/06 (2013.01); F01N 2900/0412 (2013.01); F01N 2900/0418 (2013.01); F01N 2900/08 (2013.01); F01N 2900/10 (2013.01); F01N 2900/12 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1404 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1411 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1614 (2013.01); F02D 2200/0806 (2013.01); F02D 2200/701 (2013.01); Y02T 10/24 (2013.01); Y02T 10/47 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of predicting the future use of a vehicle or an engine of the vehicle is used to evaluate whether NOx slippage from a lean NOx trap is likely to occur during a current drive cycle and also for scheduling when favorable conditions are likely to exist to purge the lean NOx trap before the slippage of NOx from the lean NOx trap is expected to occur.