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US 7,802,648 B2Granted
Vehicle with tilt detection based on fuel gauge output
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKunihiko Kamio
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Abstract
A vehicle including an engine, a fuel tank configured to store a fuel supplied to the engine, a fuel gauge configured to detect a fuel level of the fuel inside the fuel tank, and a tilting detector configured to determine whether or not a body of the vehicle is tilted, based on a signal output from the fuel gauge.
Claims6
A vehicle comprising:
- an engine;
- a fuel tank configured to store a fuel supplied to the engine;
- a fuel gauge configured to detect a fuel level of the fuel inside the fuel tank;
- a tilting detector configured to determine, while the engine is running, whether or not a body of the vehicle is tilted, based on a signal output from the fuel gauge, wherein the tilting detector is configured to pre-store, for each fuel amount inside the fuel tank, different patterns indicating how the signal output from the fuel gauge changes with time when the body of the vehicle is tilted, and configured to determine that the body is tilted, when the signal output from the fuel gauge changes according to a pattern corresponding to the fuel amount inside the fuel tank;
- and
- an engine controller configured to stop the engine when the tilting detector detects that the body of the vehicle is tilted.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.