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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Joshua Wheeler, Trenton, MI (US);
Scott Amman, Milford, MI (US);
Doug B. Thornburg, Dearborn, MI (US);
Brian Bennie, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Mahmoud Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for accelerometer-based windshield wiper monitoring. A vehicle includes an accelerometer affixed to a vehicle window, a windshield wiper to actuate across the vehicle window, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine an acoustic profile corresponding to the windshield wiper based on structure-borne audio data received from the accelerometer, determine whether a bandlimited decibel level of the acoustic profile exceeds a threshold, and responsively provide an alert via a vehicle display.