Methods and apparatus for vehicle maintenance event detection and recording
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsRoss Dykstra Pursifull, Michael James Uhrich, Dilip B. Patel
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for vehicle maintenance event detection and recording. An example apparatus includes a maintenance event detector to detect a first maintenance event including at least one of a tire rotation event or a fluid change event, a parameter recorder to store in a service log a vehicle location, a time, and a vehicle travel distance at which the first maintenance event occurred, and a distance targeter to determine a target distance for a second maintenance event based on information stored in the service log.
Claims23
An apparatus comprising:
- a maintenance event detector to detect a first maintenance event associated with a vehicle, the first maintenance event being a tire rotation event in which tires of the vehicle are changed from a first tire configuration to a second tire configuration;
- a parameter recorder to store in a service log a vehicle location, a time, and a vehicle travel distance at which the first maintenance event occurred;
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- a distance targeter to:
- determine a target distance for a second maintenance event based on information stored in the service log;
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- modify the target distance to a modified target distance such that a first distance traveled on the first tire configuration matches a second distance to be traveled on the second tire configuration.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a vehicle maintenance diagnostic processor programmed to detect a first tire rotation event, wherein the processor is to record a vehicle location, a time, and a vehicle travel distance for the first tire rotation event and modify a target distance for a second tire rotation event such that a first distance traveled on a first configuration of tire locations matches a second distance traveled on a second configuration of tire locations.
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A method comprising:
- detecting a first maintenance event including at least one of a tire rotation event or a fluid change event;
- storing, in a service log, a vehicle location, a time, and a vehicle travel distance at which the first maintenance event occurred in response to detecting the first maintenance event;
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- determining a target distance for a second maintenance event based on information stored in the service log, further including modifying the target distance such that a first distance traveled on a first configuration of tire locations matches a second distance traveled on at least a second configuration of tire locations when the first and second maintenance events are tire rotations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.