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US 2019/0375423 A1Published application
Methods and systems for oil leak determination
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorAed Dudar
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for an oil diagnostic. In one example, a method may include intrusively increasing an oil pump displacement to determine if an internal oil leak is occurring. The method may further include adjusting a parking routine to determine if an external oil leak is determining.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- increasing an oil pump output intrusively to a high displacement during a higher engine load in response to an oil volume decreasing at greater than a threshold rate.
An engine method comprising:
- arranging a vehicle outside of a parking spot at a first position;
- capturing a first image of the parking spot via an image capturing device;
- propelling the vehicle to the parking spot;
- propelling the vehicle outside of the parking to a second position after parking the vehicle;
- capturing a second image of the parking spot;
- and
- identifying an oil leak based on a comparison of the first and second images.
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A system comprising:
- an autonomous vehicle comprising a hybrid engine selectively coupleable to an electric motor;
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- a controller with computer-readable instructions stored on non-transitory memory thereof that when executed enable the controller to:
- execute an oil leak diagnostic in response to an oil volume decreasing at greater than a threshold rate;
- the oil leak diagnostic including an internal oil leak diagnostic and an external oil leak diagnostic;
- the internal oil leak diagnostic including intrusively increasing an oil pump output to a high displacement during a higher engine load and detecting an amount of blue in exhaust gas to detect an internal oil leak;
- the external oil leak diagnostic including arranging the autonomous vehicle a length of the vehicle outside of a parking spot, capturing a first image of the parking spot, arranging the vehicle the length of the vehicle outside of the parking spot following a threshold duration, capturing a second image, and comparing gray scale sums of the first and second images to detect an external oil leak;
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- in the absence of the internal and external oil leaks, indicating an oil sensor as degraded.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.