US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Controls and methods to calculate clutch torque to include seal friction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,848, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Controls and methods to calculate clutch torque to include seal friction" was invented by Hiral Jayantilal Haria (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Yuji Fujii (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Akshay Bichkar (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yang Xu (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, an electric machine, a disconnect clutch configured to selectively couple the engine to the electric machine, and a controller. The controller is programmed to, in response to a request to start the engine with the electric machine, command a target pressur...