Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120029780 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SPEED DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FRONT WHEELS AND REAR WHEELS OF A FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE - A method for controlling a speed difference between speed of wheels of a front axle and speed of wheels of a rear axle of a four-wheel drive vehicle. The method: determines an initial speed difference set point based on the speed of the vehicle; determines one or more intermediate speed difference set points based on one or more operational parameters of the vehicle; modulates the initial speed difference set point based on the intermediate speed difference set points to obtain a final speed difference set point; measures the speed difference and compares the measured speed difference with the final speed difference set point; and controls the measured speed difference, so that the measured speed difference reaches the final speed difference set point. | 02-02-2012 |
20120136504 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A GROUP OF VEHICLE MEMBERS ON THE BASIS OF DRIVING SITUATIONS, AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE - A driving method considering driving situations using at least one effective control signal of a member or group of members of an automobile, the method: making an arbitration between different control strategies each corresponding to a driving context, each control strategy being marked with an identifier continuously calculating an optimal control signal corresponding to each of the strategies; continuously transmitting a value representative of the identifier of the selected strategy; detecting if a strategy identifier change has occurred; when a change is detected, generating a time function x(t) increasing from 0 to 1 over a finite time interval starting when the strategy change has been detected; when a strategy identifier change has been detected, transmitting, during at least one time interval following the identifier change, an effective control signal which is the sum of the optimal signal of the control strategy following the last identifier change weighed by the value x(t) and of the optimal signal of the control strategy preceding the last identifier change weighed by the value (1−x(t)). | 05-31-2012 |
20130066583 | ESTIMATION OF THE TEMPERATURE OUTSIDE A VEHICLE FROM TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS UNDER THE BONNET OF A VEHICLE - A method for determining an estimated value of air temperature outside a vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine, according to which an initial estimated value is attributed to an estimated temperature, the temperature of an intake air of the engine is then measured, and a speed of the vehicle is assessed, followed by a mathematical filtering of the measured temperature of the intake air of the engine. The filtering operation imposes a maximum gradient on the estimated temperature, that has at least two separate positive values over time, either one of the maximum positive gradient values being selected according to the momentary speed of the vehicle. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073158 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF A MEANS OF MECHANICALLY COUPLING THE FIRST AND SECOND AXLES OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method controlling operation of a mechanism mechanically coupling first and second axles of a transmission system of a motor vehicle, the first axle being driven as standard and the second axle being driven as an option depending on a status of the coupling mechanism, the transmission system being capable of operating in a first mode in which a value of transmittable torque that can be transmitted by the mechanical coupling mechanism is fixed, or in a second mode in which the value of the transmittable torque that can be transmitted by the mechanical coupling mechanism is higher than the value of the transmittable torque for the first mode. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080002 | METHOD OF OPERATING A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OF AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE OF THE FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE TYPE COMPRISING A MEANS OF MECHANICALLY COUPLING THE FIRST AND SECOND AXLES - A method of operating a transmission system of an automotive vehicle, the transmission system including a mechanism of mechanically coupling first and second axles of the transmission system, a status of the coupling mechanism defining a number of transmission modes. In the method, if the automotive vehicle crosses a speed threshold for a determined length of time, for example between 30 seconds and two minutes, the transmission system switches from a first mode in which the torque that can be transmitted by the mechanical coupling mechanism is fixed, into a different transmission mode. | 03-28-2013 |
20130110312 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE INITIAL TEMPERATURE OF A MECHANICAL MEMBER OF A VEHICLE AT THE START-UP OF THE VEHICLE | 05-02-2013 |
20130110359 | METHOD OF OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |