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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marco Mauro, San Remo, IT;
Maria Paola Bianconi, Turin, IT;
Mario Gambera, Orbassano, IT;
Andrea Fortunato, Orbassano, IT;
Assignee:
C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni, Orbassano, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01P 1/114 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01P 1/114 ;
Abstract
A method of diagnosing a cooling system of a vehicle engine, including the steps of: acquiring operating data relative to operation of the cooling system (cooling system radiator water temperature/fan rotation speed) during a trip time between turn-on of the engine and subsequent turn-off of the engine; processing the acquired data, and accumulating the data for each trip to create a database; and examining the location of the data within the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the cooling system.