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Fuel filter diagnostic system and filter cartridge

  • US 8,655,542 B2
  • Filed: 05/22/2012
  • Issued: 02/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A fuel filter diagnostic system for a vehicle that has a filter cartridge, which includes a filter adapted to filter foreign objects contained in fuel used in an internal combustion engine of the vehicle, the fuel filter diagnostic system comprising:

  • an electronic tag that is attached to the filter cartridge and includes;

    a storage device that stores individual product information of the filter; and

    a wireless transmitter device that wirelessly transmits the individual product information;

    a wireless receiver device that is installed to a predetermined location of the vehicle, which is other than the filter cartridge and receives the individual product information transmitted from the electronic tag; and

    a diagnostic device that diagnoses whether the individual product information is received by the wireless receiver device or whether the filter cartridge installed in the vehicle has a desired filtering performance based on contents of the individual product information received by the wireless receiver device, wherein;

    when the diagnostic device diagnoses that the filter cartridge does not have the desired filtering performance, the diagnostic device limits an output of the internal combustion engine below a predetermined value.

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