Process for displaying oil change information in an internal combustion engine

• US 4,845,623 A
• Filed: 07/07/1987
• Issued: 07/04/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault (Renault)
• Original Assignee: Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault (Renault)
• Inventors: Korb, Jean-Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Lall, Parshotam S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ellis B.
• Application Number:
  US07/072,655
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• Field of Search: 364/431.03, 364/581, 123/196 R, 123/196 S, 123/198 DA, 73/64, 73/116, 73/117.3, 340/52 F, 340/52 R, 184/6.4
• US Class Current: 701/101
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0234 related to maintenance or repairing of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 2011/14 for indicating the necessity to change the oil

Abstract

A process for displaying engine oil change information for an internal combustion engine equipped with an electronic injection calculator linked to an onboard computer consisting of the calculation of (N) number of weighted kilometers. The reduction of the period (T) pulses by a period (d) at each (N) kilometers to a minimum threshold (T_o) corresponding to (M.N.) weighted kilometers. The storage of (M.N.) weighted kilometers, their subtraction of the stored weighted kilometers from the actual kilometers remaining to be traveled and the display of the actual kilometers remaining to be traveled before oil change.

Claims

1. A process for diplaying engine oil change information for an internal combustion engine equipped with an electronic injection calculator linked by a connecting wire to an onboard computer provided with a display device, said calculator supplying the onboard computer with pulses (I'"'"') of period (T) corresponding to the fuel consumption comprising the following steps;

calculation, by the electronic calculator, a fixed number N of weighted kilometers corresponding to the actual kilometers traveled by the vehicle and corrected by a coefficient which is a function of certain parameters of engine operation;

reduction, by the electronic calculator, of the initial period T of pulses I'"'"' by period d at each calculation of N weighted kilometers, to a minimum threshold (T_o) with a pulse period corresponding to (M.N.) weighted kilometers;

resetting, by the electronic calculator, the period of pulses (I'"'"') to its initial value (T);

storage by the onboard computer of (M.N.) weighted kilomters;

substraction by the onboard computer of these (M.N.) weighted kilometers from the actual kilometers remaining to be traveled before oil change, stored during the preceding calculation;

displaying of the actual kilometers remaining to be traveled before oil change.

2. A process according to claim 1, wherein the onboard computer receives, directly by a diagnostic tool or by the electronic injection calculator, a special code consisting of a pulse train (I") intended to authorize the reinitialization of the maximum number of kilometers to be traveled before another oil change.