Patent ID: 8655545

Claim:
A vehicle system comprising: a plurality of sensors that provides a first data indicating vehicle speed, a second data indicating ambient temperature, a third data indicating a first vehicle component condition, a fourth data indicating a first engine condition, and a fifth data indicating a second engine condition; and a shutter control module comprising: a plurality of sub-control modules that provide a first amount of modification to an opening amount for a shutter based on the first data, a second amount of modification to the opening amount based on the second data, and a third amount of modification to the opening amount based on the third data; a first combination module that multiplies together the first and second amounts of modification to provide a first combined amount of modification to the opening amount; a second combination module that multiplies together the fourth and fifth data to provide an estimated engine output power, the shutter control module configured to determine a fourth amount of modification to the opening amount as a function of the estimated engine output power; and a first selection module that selects a first maximum value of the third amount of modification and the fourth amount of modification to provide a first maximum amount of modification; wherein the shutter control module determines the opening amount for the shutter based on at least combining, in a third combination module, the selected first maximum amount of modification and the first combined amount of modification.