Voice control system and method for a motor vehicle with a stop/start device

US8095291B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Urs Christen · Pieterlen, CH
• Rainer Busch · Aachen, DE
• Uwe Gussen · Nideggen, DE
• Thomas Rambow · Aachen, DE
• Markus Kees · Grevenbroich, DE
• Armin Mueller-Lerwe · Kerpen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 26, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 17, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/40
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a control device for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a stop/start device, and to a method for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine in such a motor vehicle, wherein the stop/start device is designed to switch off the internal combustion automatically when at least one stop condition is met, wherein the switching off of the internal combustion engine when the stop condition is present does not take place until after a switch off delay time has passed. The control device is designed to prevent, in reaction to a first voice command, the automatic switching off of the internal combustion engine for a predefined time period and/or until a predefined vehicle operating state criterion has been fulfilled irrespective of whether or not the stop condition was already met at the time when the voice command was issued.