Patents by Inventor Henry A. Rebandt

Henry A. Rebandt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Using driving behavior to determine gear changes of an automatic transmission
    Patent number: 8380406
    Abstract: A method for changing the timing of gear changes of an automatic transmission for a motor vehicle including repetitively updating a current value of a count whose value is a measure of driving behavior, performing an evaluation of driving behavior and updating the current value by a value determined from the evaluation, determining shift schedules that define the occurrence of a gear change to be produced by the transmission, and using the updated current value to establish from among the shift schedules a shift schedule that defines a gear change to be produced by the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin MacFarlane, Henry A. Rebandt, Andrew Wong, Alan Henriksen, Peter J. Bradley, Philip J. Wiethe, Jr.
  • Adapting stroke pressure of a transmission control element
    Patent number: 8180538
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmission includes applying a reference stroke pressure to an oncoming control element while executing a downshift to a target gear, determining a stroke pressure adjustment in response to a turbine speed flare during the downshift, and re-executing the downshift while applying to the oncoming element an adapted stroke pressure that is a sum of the stroke pressure adjustment and the reference stroke pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Terry G. Feldpausch, Karl M. Jungbluth, Christopher M. Williams, Todd J. Newman, Henry A. Rebandt
  • ADAPTING STROKE PRESSURE OF A TRANSMISSION CONTROL ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20100131161
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmission includes applying a reference stroke pressure to an oncoming control element while executing a downshift to a target gear, determining a stroke pressure adjustment in response to a turbine speed flare during the downshift, and re-executing the downshift while applying to the oncoming element an adapted stroke pressure that is a sum of the stroke pressure adjustment and the reference stroke pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Terry G. Feldpausch, Karl M. Jungbluth, Christopher M. Williams, Todd J. Newman, Henry A. Rebandt
  • Using Driving Behavior to Determine Gear Changes of an Automatic Transmission
    Publication number: 20090312926
    Abstract: A method for changing the timing of gear changes of an automatic transmission for a motor vehicle including repetitively updating a current value of a count whose value is a measure of driving behavior, performing an evaluation of driving behavior and updating the current value by a value determined from the evaluation, determining shift schedules that define the occurrence of a gear change to be produced by the transmission, and using the updated current value to establish from among the shift schedules a shift schedule that defines a gear change to be produced by the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin MacFarlane, Henry A. Rebandt, Andrew Wong, Alan Henriksen, Peter J. Bradley, Philip J. Wiethe, JR.