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US 9,827,853 B2Granted
Wading vehicle advisory speed display
AssigneeJaguar Land Rover Limited
InventorsThuy-Yung Tran, Edward Hoare, Anthony Jones, Simon Thomson, Ashutosh Tomar, Sebastian Paszkowicz
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Abstract
A vehicle comprises a driver display on which is displayed an advisory maximum wading speed according to the current wading depth of the vehicle. The advisory speed is in one embodiment displayed on the vehicle speedometer. The display may also include an elevation of a vehicle on which is indicated one or more of maximum wading depth, current wading depth and vehicle inclination.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- detecting a water level about a vehicle travelling over a submerged ground surface;
- determining an advisory maximum vehicle speed relative to the ground surface in dependence on one or more driving conditions of the vehicle including the detected water level and an inclination of the vehicle;
- displaying said advisory maximum vehicle speed on a driver display of current vehicle speed, wherein the advisory maximum vehicle speed and the current vehicle speed are simultaneously displayed;
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- adjusting said advisory maximum vehicle speed according to the inclination of the vehicle as indicated by an inclination sensor of the vehicle.
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A system for aiding driver control of a wading vehicle travelling over a submerged ground surface;
- the system comprising a wading depth sensor for detecting a water level about the vehicle, a display, a memory and a processor, the memory containing a program configured to run on the processor to calculate or select an advisory maximum vehicle speed relative to the ground surface in dependence on one or more driving conditions of the vehicle including a current wading depth (D) and an inclination of the vehicle, to display said advisory maximum vehicle speed on the display, wherein the advisory maximum vehicle speed and current vehicle speed are displayed simultaneously, and to adjust said advisory maximum vehicle speed according to the inclination of the vehicle as indicated by an inclination sensor of the vehicle.
A method comprising:
- detecting a water level about a vehicle;
- determining an advisory maximum vehicle speed in dependence on one or more driving conditions of the vehicle including the detected water level and an inclination of the vehicle;
- displaying the advisory maximum vehicle speed and the detected water level on a driver display, wherein the driver display comprises a speedometer on which the advisory maximum vehicle speed and current vehicle speed are simultaneously displayed, and an elevation of the vehicle on which the detected water level is displayed;
- and
- adjusting said advisory maximum vehicle speed according to the inclination of the vehicle as indicated by an inclination sensor of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.