Patents by Inventor Imad Hassan Makki

Imad Hassan Makki 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).

  • AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE EMERGENCY OPERATING MODE
    Publication number: 20170192429
    Abstract: A vehicle computing device has a data storage medium and a processing device programmed to execute instructions stored on the data storage medium. The instructions include detecting an emergency vehicle near an autonomous host vehicle, receiving operational data from nearby vehicles, and transmitting the operational data to the emergency vehicle. The operational data indicates whether one or more of the nearby vehicles is operating in an autonomous mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Imad Hassan Makki, Aed M. Dudar
  • Evaporative emissions testing based on historical and forecast weather data
    Patent number: 9696234
    Abstract: A method for a vehicle, comprising: initiating an engine-off natural vacuum test based on an ambient temperature change potential over a testing duration. The ambient temperature change potential may be based on historic weather data and further based on forecast weather data. In this way, the engine-off natural vacuum test may be executed only when conditions favor an in-tank temperature change significant enough to cause a threshold change in fuel tank pressure, thus reducing the number of aborted tests and increasing the test's overall performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Imad Hassan Makki, Aed M. Dudar, Robert Roy Jentz, Hsin-hsiang Yang
  • Integrated fuel catalyst monitor
    Patent number: 9689298
    Abstract: A method is provided for monitoring an emission control device coupled to an engine. In one example approach, the method comprises, following a deceleration fuel shut-off (DFSO) duration, indicating degradation of an emission device based on an amount of rich products required to cause a sensor to become richer than a first threshold, the indicating carried out when DFSO duration is greater than a second threshold. The method also comprises an integration which is based on inlet air-fuel ratio, the integration starting only after a pre-catalyst sensor reaches stoichiometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pankaj Kumar, Imad Hassan Makki, Brent Edward Sealy, Michael Casedy
  • VEHICLE MODE DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20170174215
    Abstract: An operating mode is determined for a vehicle according to respective control states of each of a plurality of vehicle subsystems that include braking, steering, and propulsion. The operating mode is one of manual control, partial manual control, and no manual control. A route for the vehicle is determined based in part on the operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Joseph Wisniewski, Shiqi Qiu, Imad Hassan Makki
  • Method and system for determining air-fuel ratio imbalance
    Patent number: 9683506
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for assessing the presence or absence of cylinder air-fuel ratio deviation that may result in air-fuel ratio imbalance between engine cylinders. In one example, the method may include assessing the presence or absence of air-fuel ratio errors based on deviation from an expected air-fuel ratio during a deceleration fuel shut-off event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hassene Jammoussi, Imad Hassan Makki, Michael I. Kluzner, Robert Roy Jentz
  • DIAGNOSING AND SUPPLEMENTING VEHICLE SENSOR DATA
    Publication number: 20170166219
    Abstract: A system includes a processor programmed to receive a first data value from a first data collector as an input to operate a first vehicle. The processor is further programmed to determine to exclude the first data value as the input to operate the first vehicle. The computer is further programmed to receive a second data value from a second data collector as the input to operate the vehicle, the second data value being provided by a source remote to the first vehicle; and actuate a first vehicle component based in part on the second data value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hassene Jammoussi, Pankaj Kumar, Imad Hassan Makki
  • Exhaust gas sensor diagnosis and controls adaptation
    Patent number: 9677491
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided reusing processed sensor data to identify multiple types of sensor degradation. In one example, a central peak of a distribution, such as a generalized extreme value distribution, of sensor readings is re-used to identify asymmetric sensor degradation and stuck in-range sensor degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hassene Jammoussi, Imad Hassan Makki, Mark Thomas Linenberg, Gladys G. Soriano, Kenneth John Behr
  • Humidity sensor diagnostics
    Patent number: 9670861
    Abstract: Embodiments for testing a humidity sensor are provided. One example method comprises indicating degradation of a humidity sensor based on a humidity sensor output and output from an intake gas composition sensor. In this way, output from the intake gas composition sensor may be used to determine if the humidity sensor is degraded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Timothy Joseph Clark, Imad Hassan Makki, Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Michael James Uhrich
  • System and methods for engine-off natural vacuum tests
    Patent number: 9664126
    Abstract: A method for a vehicle, comprising: during a first condition, closing a canister vent valve responsive to an engine-off event without initiating an engine-off natural vacuum test; during a second condition, following the first condition, closing the canister vent valve responsive to a vehicle-off event; and then initiating an engine-off natural vacuum test. In this way, the completion percentage of the engine-off natural vacuum test will increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed M. Dudar, Imad Hassan Makki, Fling Finn Tseng, Robert Roy Jentz
  • Vehicle light anomaly state warning
    Patent number: 9666059
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a communication interface in communication with a processing device. The communication interface is configured to receive ambient light information from a remote server over a communication network. The processing device is configured to selectively enable a vehicle lighting system in accordance with the ambient light information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Aed M. Dudar, Imad Hassan Makki, Robert Roy Jentz
  • Method and system for determining air-fuel ratio imbalance
    Patent number: 9657674
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for assessing the presence or absence of cylinder air-fuel ratio deviation that may result in air-fuel ratio imbalance between engine cylinders. In one example, the method may include assessing the presence or absence of air-fuel ratio errors based on deviation from an expected air-fuel ratio during a deceleration fuel shut-off event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hassene Jammoussi, Imad Hassan Makki, Michael I. Kluzner, Robert Roy Jentz
  • Non-intrusive exhaust gas sensor monitoring based on fuel vapor purge operation
    Patent number: 9657672
    Abstract: A method of monitoring an exhaust gas sensor coupled in an engine exhaust in an engine is provided. The method includes adjusting engine operation responsive to exhaust gas sensor degradation, the degradation identified during deceleration fuel shut-off (DFSO) and compensated based on whether vapor purge operation is occurring in the engine during DFSO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Nathan Banker, Michael James Uhrich, Imad Hassan Makki, James Michael Kerns
  • System and method to restore catalyst storage level after engine feed-gas fuel disturbance
    Patent number: 9644561
    Abstract: Various approaches are described for air-fuel ratio control in an engine. In one example, a method include adjusting fuel injection from an anticipatory controller responsive to exhaust oxygen feedback of an exhaust gas sensor positioned upstream of an exhaust catalyst, the anticipatory controller including a first integral term and a second integral term, the second integral term correcting for past fuel disturbances. In this way, it is possible to provide fast responses to errors via the anticipatory controller, while corrected known past fueling errors, on average, via the second integral term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen William Magner, Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Imad Hassan Makki, James Michael Kerns
  • COORDINATED TESTING IN VEHICLE PLATOONS
    Publication number: 20170122841
    Abstract: A vehicle computer is communicatively coupled to a portable computing device and is programmed to determine, in a lead vehicle, that one or more conditions for a diagnostic test, such as an onboard diagnostic (OBD) test, are met and to send a vehicle-to-vehicle message to one or more following vehicles at a specified time. The sent message provides data to indicate to each following vehicle to perform the test at a specified time. The vehicle computer is further programmed to perform the test in the lead vehicle at the specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Aed M. Dudar, Imad Hassan Makki, Fling Tseng
  • CONFIDENCE-MODIFIED EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE FILTER FOR ENGINE-OFF NATURAL VACUUM TESTING
    Publication number: 20170114755
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for conducting an engine-off natural vacuum test and filtering the output of the EONV test based on a variable weighting factor. In one example, one or more EONV test entry conditions are evaluated with one or more membership functions corresponding to the indicated result of the EONV test to obtain an overall confidence value that is used to modify the weighting factor. In this way, the filtered EONV output reflects the confidence in the test results, and as such a malfunction indicator light may be more appropriately set as compared to conditions wherein filtered EONV output is not based on confidence in the test results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Aed M. Dudar, Imad Hassan Makki, Robert Roy Jentz
  • HUMIDITY SENSOR DIAGNOSTICS
    Publication number: 20170022921
    Abstract: Embodiments for diagnosing a humidity sensor are provided. One example method comprises adjusting an engine operating parameter based on humidity of a first gas flow measured by a humidity sensor, and indicating degradation of the humidity sensor if a humidity of a second gas flow measured by the humidity sensor is different than an expected humidity. In this way, degradation of the humidity sensor may be indicated if the humidity of the second gas flow measured by the humidity sensor is different than expected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Imad Hassan Makki, Timothy Joseph Clark, Michael James Uhrich, Pankaj Kumar
  • Identifying fuel system degradation
    Patent number: 9546628
    Abstract: Various methods are thus provided for identifying degradation in a fuel system. In one embodiment, a method of operating a fuel system comprises applying a pulse to a fuel pump responsive to detecting that lift pump pressure corresponds to a fuel vapor pressure, ceasing application of the pulse responsive to detecting that the lift pump pressure corresponds to a relief setpoint pressure, and indicating degradation in the fuel system if the detected lift pump pressure deviates from an expected fuel rail pressure, including distinguishing among degradation in the fuel pump, a lower pressure fuel pressure sensor, a fuel rail pressure sensor, and a pressure relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ethan D. Sanborn, Pankaj Kumar, Imad Hassan Makki, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Crowd enhanced connectivity map for data transfer intermittency mitigation
    Patent number: 9549291
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a communication interface, a memory device, and a processing device. The communication interface is configured to communicate over a communication network. The memory device is configured to store a connectivity map associated with a geographic area. The connectivity map defines a communication quality at a plurality of locations in the geographic area. The processing device is configured to initiate a remote data transfer over the communication network in accordance with the connectivity map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Imad Hassan Makki, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Hsin-hsiang Yang
  • Non-intrusive exhaust gas sensor monitoring
    Patent number: 9541469
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an exhaust gas sensor coupled in an engine exhaust is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises indicating exhaust gas sensor degradation based on a time delay and line length of each sample of a set of exhaust gas sensor responses collected during a commanded change in air-fuel ratio. In this way, the exhaust gas sensor may be monitored utilizing robust parameters in a non-intrusive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael James Uhrich, Adam Nathan Banker, James Michael Kerns, Imad Hassan Makki
  • Non-intrusive exhaust gas sensor monitoring
    Patent number: 9500151
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an exhaust gas sensor coupled in an engine exhaust is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises indicating exhaust gas sensor degradation based on shape of a distribution of extreme values of a plurality of sets of lambda differentials collected during selected operating conditions. In this way, the exhaust gas sensor may be monitored in a non-intrusive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hassene Jammoussi, Imad Hassan Makki, Adam Nathan Banker, Michael Casedy