US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Method for detecting slip in a belt driven integrated starter system" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,903, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method for detecting slip in a belt driven integrated starter system" was invented by Tobias Emig (Gelsenkirchen, Germany), Ke Fan (Wurselen, Germany) and Tianyuan Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting belt slip in a starter system for starting an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, the starter system including a belt-driven integrated starter generator. A control unit of the motor vehicle evaluates a belt slip as detected if a determined belt slip value exceeds a limit value. The belt slip value is dete...