Patent ID: 11965476
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B  Y | IPC F

Claim 9:
10. A system, comprising:
an engine including a flywheel starter and a belt integrated starter/generator (BISG);
an integrated starter/generator (ISG); and
a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory that cause the controller to reference a selection matrix and start the engine via at least one of the flywheel starter, the BISG, and the ISG according to a vehicle drive mode and a level of driver urgency that is based on a rate of change of a driver demand pedal,
where the selection matrix is a data structure referenced via a plurality of vehicle operating considerations including the vehicle drive mode and the level of driver urgency,
where the data structure includes entries that form different combinations of the plurality of vehicle operating considerations within the data structure, and
where each of the different combinations of the plurality of vehicle operating considerations corresponds to an entry representing one or more of the flywheel starter, the BISG, and the ISG.