Patents by Inventor John Edward Marano

John Edward Marano 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).

  • Fuzzy logic adaptive shift control
    Patent number: 5737712
    Abstract: A method of establishing an adaptive pressure term in an automatic transmission having a pressure command developed from a base line pressure term and an adaptive pressure term extends implementation of adaptive pressure corrections during non-ideal periods of operation such as low temperatures, short operating cycles and driver variations by establishing an adaptive pressure term proportional to a measure of confidence in a pressure correction term calculated at each ratio change of the transmission. The measure of confidence is determined according to a variety of functions of predetermined powertrain operating parameters and measures of criticality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Ed Erliang Han, John Edward Marano