Display unit for displaying a remaining range in a motor vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsAna Damjanovic, Keyvan Karami-Malamiri, Grigor Zapryanov, Joerg Moellmann
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Abstract
The invention relates to a display unit for displaying at least one remaining range in a motor vehicle in accordance with the remaining energy supply in at least one drive system, such as the tank fill level in a vehicle driven by a combustion engine and/or the state of charge of the high-voltage battery in a vehicle driven by an electric motor. The display of the remaining range may be hidden even when there is a remaining energy supply if at least one defined operating condition is met. A defined operating condition allows the conclusion that a unit of the drive system is at least temporarily unavailable.
Claims10
A display unit comprising:
- a control unit configured to:
- cause a visual display to display at least one remaining range in a motor vehicle as a function of stored energy of an energy store for at least one drive system of the motor vehicle, and
- suppress the display of the at least one remaining range, despite the energy store having stored energy corresponding to the at least one remaining range, in response to a determination that at least one defined operating condition exists,
- wherein the control unit is further configured to detect at least temporary unavailability of a unit of the drive system by checking the defined operating condition.
A method, comprising:
- displaying, via an electronic control unit, at least one remaining range in a motor vehicle as a function of stored energy of an energy store for at least one drive system of the motor vehicle;
- detecting, by the electronic control unit, at least temporary unavailability of a unit of the drive system by determining whether a defined operating condition exists;
- and
- suppressing, by the electronic control unit, the display of the at least one remaining range, despite the energy store having stored energy corresponding to the at least one remaining range, in response to determining that the defined operating condition exists.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.