Method and Device for Controlling the Output of a Tank Ventilation Notice
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMartin RUPP
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Abstract
A device for controlling the output of a tank ventilation notice prior to a possible filling operation of the fuel tank of a vehicle is configured to determine that a notice situation exists in which by default a tank ventilation notice is to be output. The device is further configured to ascertain one or more indications for whether a tank ventilation notice should be suppressed or not, and to effect or suppress the output of the tank ventilation notice depending on the one or more indications.
Claims7
-6. (canceled)
A device for controlling an output of a tank ventilation notice before a possible process of filling a fuel tank of a vehicle, the device comprising:
- a computer implemented control unit operatively configured to:
- determine that there is a notice situation, for which the tank ventilation notice should be output as standard;
- ascertain one or more indications of whether or not the tank ventilation notice should be suppressed, wherein the one or more indications are ascertained based on:
- a user profile of a user that is stored in a storage unit;
- a preference setting of the user with respect to the output of tank ventilation notices;
- whether or not there is a user profile stored in the storage unit for the user of the vehicle;
- an identity of the user ascertained based on image data from an interior camera of the vehicle;
- and/or
- operation of the vehicle in a guest and/or rental car mode;
- and
- effect or suppress the output of the tank ventilation notice based on the one or more indications.
A method for controlling an output of a tank ventilation notice before a possible process of filling a fuel tank of a vehicle;
- the method comprising the steps of:
- determining that there is a notice situation, for which a tank ventilation notice should be output as standard;
- ascertaining one or more indications of whether or not the tank ventilation notice should be suppressed;
- wherein the one or more indications are ascertained based on:
- a user profile of the user stored in a storage unit;
- a preference setting of the user with respect to the output of tank ventilation notices;
- whether or not there is a user profile stored in the storage unit for the user of the vehicle;
- an identity of the user based on image data from an interior camera of the vehicle;
- and/or
- operation of the vehicle in a guest and/or rental car mode;
- and
- effecting or suppressing the output of the tank ventilation notice based on the one or more indications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.