US 12,030,480 B2
Systems and methods to coordinate clunk and shuffle management with engine starts in MHT drivetrains
Maruthi Ravichandran, Dearborn, MI (US); Judhajit Roy, Royal Oak, MI (US); Jason Meyer, Canton, MI (US); Sassan Farahmand, Canton, MI (US); Mary Catherine Farmer, Plymouth, MI (US); and Fazal Syed, Canton, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jul. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/812,383.
Claims priority of application No. 202241005496 (IN), filed on Feb. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242090 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 20/15 (2016.01); F02N 11/04 (2006.01); F02N 11/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 20/15 (2016.01) [F02N 11/04 (2013.01); F02N 11/0851 (2013.01); F02N 11/0859 (2013.01); F02N 2200/102 (2013.01); F02N 2200/105 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle operating method, comprising:
constraining a rate of increase of a torque output of an electric machine via a controller during engine cranking to a minimum of a first torque increase rate and a second torque increase rate.