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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2011
Kirk Pebley, Novi, MI (US);
Sangeetha Sangameswaran, Canton, MI (US);
William James Bouse, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
John Michael Jakupco, New Boston, MI (US);
Kevin Roy Harpenau, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Kirk Pebley, Novi, MI (US);
Sangeetha Sangameswaran, Canton, MI (US);
William James Bouse, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
John Michael Jakupco, New Boston, MI (US);
Kevin Roy Harpenau, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An automotive vehicle may include an engine, an electric power steering system and at least one controller. The at least one controller may, during an auto stop event of the engine, reduce at a first rate an available electric power steering system current to a non-zero threshold value before fuel to the engine is shut off and reduce at a second rate different than the first rate the available electric power steering system current from the non-zero threshold value to 0 after fuel to the engine is shut off.