Flextronics Ap, LLC

Mei Ho Stinson

Curtis Vance Bradford

John Nashed Hanna

Shaily Deva

Dung Dang Huynh

Rajagopalan Dhesikan

Brian Wayne Holmes

Jose Luis Tenorio Correa

Embodiments provide an oil pan that includes an oil pan having a reservoir configured to hold oil and defined by one or more oil pan walls and an oil pan bottom. The oil pan includes one or more capacitance sensors coupled to a portion of the oil pan walls and configured to sense a capacitance. The oil pan includes a capacitance measuring unit electrically connected to the one or more sensors via one or more conductors and configured to receive each of the sensed capacitances via the one or more conductors and determine capacitance values for each of the sensed capacitances. The oil pan also includes a processor configured to receive the capacitance values and determine the oil level in the oil pan based on the capacitance values.

Oil pan with integrated capacitive sensor for measuring oil level

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Mei Ho Stinson