Mark J Peters

US Patent:

6425365, Jul 30, 2002

Filed:

Oct 20, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/692918

Inventors:

Mark William Peters - Wolverine Lake MI
David Lee Boggs - Bloomfield Hills MI
Jerry D. Robichaux - Tucson AZ
Stephen John Kotre - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

F02B 7700

US Classification:

123198DB

Abstract:

Periodic shutdown of the internal combustion engine ( ) during operation of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is achieved by shutdown of a vapor management valve (VMV) of the engine evaporative emission control system and an EGR valve ( ) of the tailpipe emission control system at the time an engine shutdown command is provided to a controlled engine shutdown routine that, after closing of the VMV and EGR valves, then commands disabling of the engine fuel injectors ( ) in a manner to stop engine operation.

US Patent:

6604502, Aug 12, 2003

Filed:

Sep 27, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/671713

Inventors:

Darren Bisaro - Dearborn MI
David Lee Boggs - Bloomfield Hills MI
Mark William Peters - Wolverine Lake MI
Stephen Richard Burke - Dearborn MI
Stephen John Kotre - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

F02B 7700

US Classification:

123198DB, 123679, 123497

Abstract:

A method of controlling an engine during engine shutdown to reduce evaporative emissions is provided. The method includes a step of shutting off a fuel pump of the engine. The method also includes a step of burning off the fuel from a fuel rail in a cylinder of the engine after the fuel pump is shut off. During the burning off of the fuel, a duty cycle of each fuel injector of engine is controlled to allow the engine to operate generally cyclically about a predetermined air/fuel ratio. The predetermined air/fuel ratio is preferably stoichiometric. By burning off the fuel in the fuel rail after the fuel pump is shut off, the fuel pressure in the fuel rail is reduced. The reduced fuel pressure in the fuel rail results in reduced evaporative emissions from the engine.

US Patent:

6607142, Aug 19, 2003

Filed:

Nov 2, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/705169

Inventors:

David Lee Boggs - Bloomfield Hills MI
Mark William Peters - Wolverine Lake MI
Stephen John Kotre - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60H 102

US Classification:

237 123B, 180 651, 180 652

Abstract:

This invention relates to a hybrid electric vehicle component coolant control system and method. The coolant system has an electric pump to move coolant through a closed system including engine and motor components. Such components to be cooled can include any electric motors, power electronics, engine, and transmission. The preferred embodiment controls coolant flow to the vehicle engine and motor in a single closed loop. Vehicle components have temperature sensors that send temperature signals to an electric coolant pump duty cycle control strategy. The control strategy makes a determination of a duty cycle of the electric coolant pump as a function of the temperatures of vehicle components and orders the duty cycle of the electric pump. In the preferred configuration, engine temperature sensors can acquire either engine coolant temperature or engine cylinder head temperature. The preferred configuration includes a heater core in the coolant flow path connected between vehicle components and the electric coolant pump return, whereby passenger heating requests are facilitated.

US Patent:

6657315, Dec 2, 2003

Filed:

Aug 25, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/645950

Inventors:

Mark William Peters - Wolverine Lake MI
David Lee Boggs - Bloomfield Hills MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60L 1114

US Classification:

290 40C, 180 652

Abstract:

A method of operating a hybrid electric vehicle to reduce emissions. The method utilizes the vehicles electric motor/generator to generate a negative torque during cold-start conditions, effective to increase the load on the internal combustion engine , thereby reducing the light-off time of the catalytic converter. The method also reduces emissions by utilizing the vehicles motor/generator to provide a supplemental torque to engine during transient events, thereby reducing the generated mass flow and amount of untreated emissions.

US Patent:

6688411, Feb 10, 2004

Filed:

Nov 9, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/683026

Inventors:

David Lee Boggs - Bloomfield Hills MI
Jerry D. Robichaux - Tucson MI
Mark William Peters - Wolverine Lake MI
Paul Michael Deniston - Westland MI
Stephen John Kotre - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60K 602

US Classification:

180 652, 180 651, 123352, 123357, 701110

Abstract:

A hybrid electric vehicle and a method for operating the hybrid electric vehicle in which combustion is made to occur within the internal combustion engine only after the crankshaft of the engine has been rotated by an electric motor or generator to a certain speed and according to a certain ramped or partially ramped profile thereby reducing the amount of emissions from the engine allowing for a more efficient torque transfer to wheels and allowing for a more smoother operation of the vehicle The fuel injectors throttle plate and spark plugs are also controlled in order to allow emissions to be reduced during activation of the engine and to allow the catalytic converter to be heated in order to allow these emissions to be further reduced as the engine is operating.

US Patent:

6737162, May 18, 2004

Filed:

Jan 4, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/039267

Inventors:

Friedrich Jonas - Aachen, DE
Peter Bier - Krefeld, DE
Mark Peters - Walled Lake MI

Assignee:

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft - Leverkusen

International Classification:

B32B 2738

US Classification:

428413, 428414, 428419, 428522, 428520, 428447

Abstract:

Transparent moldings comprising a polymeric base material and at least one coating formed thereon is disclosed. The coating includes a primer coat that containing an epoxy and/or acrylic resin is disposed on at least one surface of the base material, a heat-absorbing coating which contains a polythiophene compound and a scratch-resistant coating. In an additional embodiment of the invention, the coating contains no primer and the heat absorbing coating contains a polythiophene compound.

US Patent:

6763298, Jul 13, 2004

Filed:

Nov 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/682980

Inventors:

David Lee Boggs - Bloomfield Hills MI
Jerry D. Robichaux - Tucson AZ
Mark William Peters - Wolverine Lake MI
Stephen John Kotre - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

F02B 7700

US Classification:

701112, 701105, 701102, 123198 DB, 477187

Abstract:

A method and system to control engine shutdown for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is provided. Tailpipe emissions are reduced during the many engine shutdowns and subsequent restarts during the course of an HEV drive cycle, and evaporative emissions are reduced during an HEV âsoakâ (inactive) period. The engine shutdown routine can ramp off fuel injectors, control engine torque (via electronic throttle control), control engine speed, stop spark delivery by disabling the ignition system, stop purge vapor flow by closing a vapor management valve (VMV), stop exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) flow by closing an EGR valve, and flush the intake manifold of residual fuel (vapor and puddles) into the combustion chamber to be combusted chamber to be combusted. The resulting exhaust gas byproducts are then converted in the catalytic converter.

US Patent:

6797384, Sep 28, 2004

Filed:

Sep 6, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/236868

Inventors:

Steven M. Gasworth - Farmington Hills MI
Mark Peters - Charleston SC
Ralf Dujardin - Willich, DE

Assignee:

Exatec, LLC. - Wixom MI

International Classification:

B32B 1706

US Classification:

428412, 428500, 528196, 528198

Abstract:

An automotive glazing panel is provided by a polycarbonate substrate having a coating system including an inner layer blocking IR and overlying coating material blocking UV radiation and providing a scratch resistant outer coating layer.