VEHICLE MAINTENANCE REMINDERS

• US 20160042576A1
• Filed: 08/05/2014
• Published: 02/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Livio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Myine Electronics, Inc. (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: FISCHER, Joel J., GROVER, Joey Ray, BURKE, Michael, GATTI, Marco
• Granted Patent: US 9,466,153 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0234 related to maintenance or repairing of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0283 Predictive maintenance, e.g. involving the monitoring of a system and, based on the monitoring results, taking decisions on the maintenance schedule of the monitored system; Estimating remaining useful life [RUL] preventive maintenance, i.e. planning maintenance according to the available resources without monitoring the system G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

A system may determine, based on vehicle data received from vehicle sensors, a maintenance indication indicative of vehicle maintenance required according to a vehicle maintenance schedule, identify a maintenance time indication for which a maintenance procedure unrelated to the vehicle maintenance schedule should be performed, and generate a maintenance recommendation to provide in a vehicle human-machine interface offering to perform the vehicle maintenance and the unrelated maintenance procedure. The system may also identify, based on driver maintenance preferences, a weather-specific maintenance procedure unrelated to a vehicle maintenance schedule, identify a maintenance time indication according to properties of weather appropriate for the weather-specific maintenance procedure and weather forecast data queried from a weather service, and present a maintenance recommendation offering to perform required vehicle maintenance and the weather-specific maintenance procedure at a time indicated by the maintenance time indication.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor configured to

determine, based on vehicle data received from vehicle sensors and a vehicle maintenance schedule, a maintenance indication indicative of vehicle maintenance that is due,

identify a maintenance time indication for performing a weather-specific maintenance procedure unrelated to the vehicle maintenance schedule, and

generate a maintenance recommendation offering to perform the vehicle maintenance and the unrelated maintenance procedure at a time indicated by the maintenance time indication.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the maintenance recommendation in a vehicle human-machine interface.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive user input accepting the maintenance recommendation, and

schedule the vehicle maintenance and the unrelated maintenance with a maintenance scheduling service.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the maintenance recommendation displays a message indicating a proposed day for performing the vehicle maintenance required by the maintenance schedule and the unrelated maintenance.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the maintenance recommendation includes user interface controls configured to receive user input regarding acceptance or rejection of the maintenance recommendation.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive the vehicle data from vehicle sensors connected to a controller area network of the vehicle.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to identify the maintenance time indication according to properties of weather appropriate for the weather-specific maintenance procedure unrelated to the vehicle maintenance schedule and weather forecast data queried from a weather service.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to identify the maintenance procedure unrelated to the vehicle maintenance schedule based on driver maintenance preferences maintained by the vehicle.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the weather-specific maintenance procedure unrelated to the vehicle maintenance schedule includes a vehicle wash.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the maintenance schedule includes at least one of maintenance procedures specified according to a predetermined interval of time, maintenance procedures specified according to a n interval number of miles.

11. A system comprising:

a processor configured to

identify, based on driver maintenance preferences, a weather-specific maintenance procedure unrelated to a vehicle maintenance schedule,

identify a maintenance time indication according to properties of weather appropriate for the weather-specific maintenance procedure and weather forecast data queried from a weather service, and

present a maintenance recommendation offering to perform required vehicle maintenance and the weather-specific maintenance procedure at a time indicated by the maintenance time indication.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to determine, based on vehicle data received from vehicle sensors and the vehicle maintenance schedule, a maintenance indication indicative of the required vehicle maintenance being due.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to receive the vehicle data from vehicle sensors connected to a controller area network of the vehicle.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the maintenance recommendation in a vehicle human-machine interface.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive user input accepting the maintenance recommendation, and

schedule the vehicle maintenance and the unrelated maintenance with a maintenance scheduling service.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the maintenance recommendation displays a message indicating a proposed day for performing the vehicle maintenance required by the maintenance schedule and the unrelated maintenance.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the maintenance recommendation includes user interface controls configured to receive user input regarding acceptance or rejection of the maintenance recommendation.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the weather-specific maintenance procedure unrelated to the vehicle maintenance schedule includes a vehicle wash.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the maintenance schedule includes at least one of maintenance procedures specified according to a predetermined interval of time, maintenance procedures specified according to a n interval number of miles.