Method for determining the state of wear of a part and for informing a client

• US 9,858,730 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eurodrive Services and Distribution NV (Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA)
• Original Assignee: Eurodrive Services and Distribution NV (Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA)
• Inventors: Yturriaga-Trenor, Beltran
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith-Stewart, Demetra R
• Application Number:
  US14/433,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20150262432A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,554 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 11/246 Tread wear monitoring systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 17/22 Devices for monitoring or checking brake systems; Signal devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2270/406 Test-mode; Self-diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

In a method of determining a remaining capacity for use of a vehicle part of a motor vehicle, a state of wear of the vehicle part is determined, a remaining distance that can be covered before the vehicle part becomes completely worn is calculated as a function of a type of the vehicle part and the state of wear of the vehicle part, and a remaining service life before the vehicle part must be changed is calculated as a function of an average distance covered by the motor vehicle annually and the remaining distance that can be covered before the vehicle part becomes completely worn.

Claims

1. A method of informing as to a remaining capacity for use of a vehicle part of a motor vehicle, the method comprising:

determining a remaining capacity for use of the vehicle part by;

determining a state of wear of the vehicle part,

calculating, as a function of a type of the vehicle part and the state of wear of the vehicle part, a remaining distance that can be covered before the vehicle part becomes completely worn, and

calculating, as a function of an average distance covered by the motor vehicle annually and the remaining distance that can be covered before the vehicle part becomes completely worn, a remaining service life before the vehicle part must be changed; and

sending a message to inform a user of the motor vehicle of a need to change the vehicle part,

wherein a date on which the message is to be sent is calculated as a function of the determined remaining capacity for use of the vehicle part.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the date on which the message is to be sent is earlier than a date on which the remaining capacity for use of the vehicle part is determined, the message is sent immediately.