Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – With indicator or control of power plant
Patent
1997-10-31
1999-10-19
Wolfe, Willis R.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
With indicator or control of power plant
701 29, 701115, G06F 1900
Patent
active
059681071
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for engine parameter trending in which the engine control module (ECM) periodically stores to non-volatile memory various engine operating parameters over the life of the engine. The system is configurable such that a variable number of samples of a variable number of engine parameters can be stored. In addition to storing each engine parameter, each write to non-volatile memory is also time stamped. This data is used to track the health of the engine over its life cycle. Such data can be useful in providing decreased down time due to increased troubleshooting ability. The system includes a variable number of calibratable predetermined trigger points available so that the data is always logged under the same operating conditions. All triggers must be satisfied for a specified time in order to ensure consistent engine operating conditions when each data set is taken. When all of the predetermined input trigger thresholds have been met for a calibratable predetermined length of time and a predetermined time interval has been reached, the designated parameters are stored in non-volatile memory for extraction and use by a service tool. If the trigger preconditions are not satisfied, the ECM will wait a percentage of the data-logging time increment in order for the preconditions to all be satisfied before writing the monitored parameters to non-volatile memory. If the preconditions are not met after that additional time period, the ECM will evaluate the individual conditions and write to non-volatile memory whichever monitored parameters are valid, given which preconditions have been met.
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Dager James C.
Greenwood Todd E.
Stoughton Merrick C.
Vogan Mitchell P.
Cummins Engine Company, Inc.
Vo Hieu T.
Wolfe Willis R.
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