Patent ID: 11926331
Assignee: CUMMINS INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. A system, comprising:
a controller communicably and operatively coupled to an accelerator and a prime mover of a vehicle, the prime mover configured to provide a negative torque response and a positive torque response with a zero torque operating condition between the negative torque response and the positive torque response, the controller structured to:
receive an indication regarding at least one of a position of the accelerator and a speed of the vehicle, the position corresponding with an associated response of the prime mover;
detect a deceleration condition regarding a deceleration event for the vehicle based on at least one of the accelerator being disengaged by an operator or a brake being engaged by the operator; and
remap the associated response of the prime mover of the vehicle from following a normal response curve to following a deceleration response curve in response to the deceleration condition, wherein (a) a first slope of the negative torque response for the deceleration response curve is greater than a second slope of the negative torque response for the normal response curve and (b) a first range of the zero torque operating condition for the deceleration response curve is smaller than a second range of the zero torque operating condition for the normal response curve, thereby reducing an overall range of the accelerator that is associated with the negative torque response and the zero torque operating condition such that, upon a subsequent acceleration following the deceleration event in response to the accelerator being engaged by the operator and in accordance with the positive torque response of the prime mover, an output of the prime mover to accelerate the vehicle activates at a relatively lesser amount of depression of the accelerator from a non-depressed state of the accelerator than prior to the deceleration event.