Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for fuel tank diagnostics
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Application No.: US15728884Application Date: 2017-10-10
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Publication No.: US10997803B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Aed M. Dudar , Scott Alan Bohr , Wolfgang Krings
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: McCoy Russell LLP
- Agent Geoffrey Brumbaugh
- Main IPC: G07C5/08
- IPC: G07C5/08 ; G07C5/00 ; F02D41/22 ; F02D41/00 ; B60K15/03 ; B60K15/077 ; F02M25/08 ; F02M37/00

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for conducting a fuel tank diagnostic. In one example, a method comprises sealing a fuel tank of a vehicle, retrieving data related to fuel tank pressure from a crowd of vehicles, and indicating the fuel tank of the vehicle being diagnosed is degraded responsive to data related to fuel tank pressure from the crowd insufficiently correlating with a set of data related to fuel tank pressure from the vehicle. In this way, fuel tank degradation may be indicated without coupling the fuel tank of the vehicle to atmosphere, which may reduce a release of undesired evaporative emissions to atmosphere.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190108693A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FUEL TANK DIAGNOSTICS Public/Granted day:2019-04-11
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