Method and control device for controlling a vehicle device
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorAlexander Oguz
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Abstract
A method for controlling a vehicle device (10) configured to cool of a vehicle unit (20) includes reading in temperature information which is functionally related to an operation of the vehicle unit (20) and determining a temperature gradient. The method also includes checking whether the information read in exceeds a threshold value for the information read in, checking whether the temperature gradient determined exceeds a threshold value, and emitting a signal for the control of the vehicle device (10) as a function of check results of the checking steps, in order to bring about the cooling of the vehicle unit (20) by the vehicle device (10). In addition, a control unit (100) for carrying out the method and a vehicle (200) with a control unit (100) of that type.
Claims12
1-11. (canceled)
A method for controlling a vehicle device (10) configured to bring about the cooling of a vehicle unit (20), the method comprising:
- reading-in (S1) information about a temperature (T) which is in functional relationship (4) with an operation of the vehicle unit (20);
- determining (S2) a gradient (G) of the temperature (T);
- checking (P2) whether the gradient (G) exceeds a threshold value (W2);
- and
- emitting (S3) a signal for controlling the vehicle device (10) as a function of a check result (E2) of checking (P2) whether the gradient (G) exceeds the threshold value (W2), in order to bring about the cooling of the vehicle unit (20) by the vehicle device (10).
A control unit (100) for controlling a vehicle device (10) configured to bring about the cooling of a vehicle unit (20), the control unit comprising:
- an interface (101) for reading in information about a temperature (T) which is in functional relationship (4) with an operation of the vehicle component (21);
- and
- a computing system (110) which is designed to determine a temperature gradient (G) on the basis of the information read in, wherein the computing system (110) is configured to check whether the temperature gradient (G) exceeds a threshold value (W2) for the temperature gradient (G);
- an interface (102) for emitting a signal for the control of the vehicle device (10) as a function of a check result (E2) of checking whether the temperature gradient exceeds the threshold value, in order to bring about the cooling of the vehicle unit (20).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.