creator Jayabalan, Ranjit creator Emadi, Ali A method of providing acceleration support to a combustion engine using an integrated starter/alternator. The integrated starter/alternator is in rotational combination with the crankshaft and connected to a battery system. The integrated starter/alternator is adapted to function at times as a power source adding torque to rotate the crankshaft to overcome friction and non-linear hydrodynamic forces within the engine. At other times the integrated starter/alternator functions as a power generator for subtracting torque from the crankshaft to provide electrical current to the battery system. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-01-24T17:25:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7024859.pdf: 110134 bytes, checksum: 930c13423b8ae010eb0182e5f72f4583 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-24T17:25:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7024859.pdf: 110134 bytes, checksum: 930c13423b8ae010eb0182e5f72f4583 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-04-11 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-19 2006-04-11 7,024,859 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2457 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access