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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
May. 05, 2015
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems Llc, Elyria, OH (US);
Joseph Macnamara, Ashland, OH (US);
Jeffrey White, Sheffield Lake, OH (US);
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, Elyria, OH (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of an apparatus and method for determining a wheel end condition are disclosed. In one example, a controller for determining a wheel end condition comprises a plurality of wheel speed sensor inputs for receiving wheel speed sensor signals from a plurality of associated wheel speed sensors installed at associated wheel ends. The controller includes control logic that determines a speed as a function of the wheel speed sensor signal; receives a resistance value of the individual wheel speed sensor and compares the resistance value to a first and second high resistance threshold and a low resistance threshold. The control logic determines a wheel end condition exists at the associated wheel end as a function of the speed and the resistance value.