Patent ID: 11970153
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  F | IPC B  F

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a vehicle, comprising:
via one or more controllers, during de-stroking of a driveline disconnect clutch, monitoring a driveline disconnect clutch pressure and generating an estimated driveline disconnect clutch liftoff pressure via the driveline disconnect clutch pressure;
adjusting a commanded driveline disconnect clutch pressure based on the estimated driveline disconnect clutch liftoff pressure;
generating a derivative of the driveline disconnect clutch pressure; and
generating the estimated driveline disconnect clutch liftoff pressure according to the driveline disconnect clutch pressure after the derivative of the driveline disconnect clutch is less than a threshold value for longer than a threshold time duration.