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US 7,260,982 B2Granted
Method and device for detecting the entry of fuel into the lubricating oil of an internal combustion engine
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsThomas Utz, Manfred Weigl
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Abstract
A process for enabling the detection of an entry of fuel into the lubricating oil of an internal combustion engine can be implemented relatively simply. The process measures a value representative of the volume of lubricating oil in the internal combustion engine and detects an entry of fuel into the lubricating oil on the basis of an evaluation of results of the measurement which were obtained for different points in time.
Claims13
A method for detecting an entry of fuel into lubricating oil of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising:
- measuring a value representing a volume of lubricating oil present in the internal combustion engine over time;
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- detecting an entry of fuel into the lubricating oil based on an evaluation of results of the measurements obtained for different points in time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.