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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
May. 07, 2012
Zhengyu Dai, Canton, MI (US);
Peter John Grutter, Plymouth, MI (US);
Roger Lyle Huffmaster, Canton, MI (US);
Hong Jiang, Birmingham, MI (US);
Felix Nedorezov, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Zhengyu Dai, Canton, MI (US);
Peter John Grutter, Plymouth, MI (US);
Roger Lyle Huffmaster, Canton, MI (US);
Hong Jiang, Birmingham, MI (US);
Felix Nedorezov, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A controller and a control strategy for a hybrid electric vehicle having a traction motor between an engine and an automatic transmission include maintaining a bypass clutch of a torque converter in an engaged position and applying a motor torque from a traction motor to the torque converter such that slip of the torque converter does not otherwise reach zero while the bypass clutch is maintained in the engaged position.