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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Gisela Blomkvist, Göteborg, SE;
Arne Andersson, Mölnlycke, SE;
Filip Acke, Göteborg, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for providing an oil change indication to an operator of an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-after-treatment system requiring regeneration, The method includes detecting regeneration events performed on the exhaust-after-treatment system; detecting oil temperature events each time unit an oil temperature is over a threshold value, and providing the oil change indication to the operator as a function of the detected regeneration events and the detected oil temperature events.