Fuel measurement system and fuel gauge error reduction method using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11752859-B2
Application number	US-202117363359-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2021
Priority date	Sep 23, 2020
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

A fuel measurement system and a fuel gauge error reduction method are provided. The fuel gauge error reduction method includes determining a driving mode of a vehicle based on an external input condition; calculating a remaining amount of fuel using a different manner corresponding to each driving mode; and providing the calculated remaining amount of fuel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel gauge error reduction method comprising:
determining one of driving modes of a vehicle based on an external input condition, wherein the external input condition includes one of turning ON or OFF of an electronic stability control or turning ON or OFF of a sports mode among selectable driving modes of the vehicle;
in response that the electronic stability control is OFF or the sports mode is ON, determining that the vehicle is in a circuit driving mode;
calculating a remaining amount of fuel using a different manner corresponding to each driving mode, wherein the remaining amount of fuel is calculated based on fuel consumption of an engine in the circuit driving mode; and
providing the calculated remaining amount of fuel.

2. The fuel gauge error reduction method according to claim 1 , further comprising: when the electronic stability control is ON or the sports mode is OFF, determining that the vehicle is in a general driving mode.

3. The fuel gauge error reduction method according to claim 2 , further comprising: in the general driving mode, calculating the remaining amount of fuel based on a fuel level of a fuel tank.

4. The fuel gauge error reduction method according to claim 3 , further comprising:
applying damping time preset based on vehicle speed to the fuel level to acquire the remaining amount of fuel; and
displaying the acquired the remaining amount of fuel through a fuel gauge.

5. The fuel gauge error reduction method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving and cumulatively summing the fuel consumption of the engine;
subtracting the cumulatively summed fuel consumption of the engine from a current remaining fuel quantity of a fuel tank; and
displaying the remaining amount of fuel that is acquired by subtracting the cumulatively summed fuel consumption of the engine from the current remaining fuel quantity of the fuel tank.

6. A fuel measurement system comprising:
a controller configured to:
determine one of driving modes of a vehicle based on an external input condition, wherein the external input condition includes one of turning ON or OFF of an electronic stability control or turning ON or OFF of a sports mode among selectable driving modes of the vehicle; when turning OFF of the electronic stability control or turning ON of the sports mode is input and held for a predetermined entry delay time, determine that the vehicle is in a circuit driving mode; and
calculate a remaining fuel quantity using a different manner corresponding to each driving mode, wherein the remaining fuel quantity is calculated based on fuel consumption of an engine in the circuit driving mode; and

a fuel gauge configured to provide the calculated remaining fuel quantity.

7. The fuel measurement system according to claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to:
when the electronic stability control is ON or the sports mode is OFF, determine that the vehicle is in a general driving mode.

8. The fuel measurement system according to claim 7 , wherein, when it is determined that a driving mode of the vehicle is a general driving mode, the controller is configured to:
apply damping time preset based on vehicle speed to fuel level information to calculate a residual fuel quantity; and
display the calculated residual fuel quantity through the fuel gauge.

9. The fuel measurement system according to claim 7 , wherein the controller is configured to:
receive fuel level information from a fuel sending unit provided in a fuel tank of the vehicle in real time; and
receive information about the fuel consumption of the engine from an engine control unit of the vehicle in real time.

10. The fuel measurement system according to claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to:
when turning ON of the electronic stability control or turning OFF of the sports mode is input and held for a predetermined exit delay time, determine that the vehicle is in a general driving mode.

11. The fuel measurement system according to claim 10 , wherein the controller is configured to:
when the ON-state of the electronic stability control or the OFF-state of the sports mode is not maintained for the predetermined exit delay time from an input point, determine that the driving mode of the vehicle is a previous driving mode.

12. The fuel measurement system according to claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to:
when the OFF-state of the electronic stability control or the ON-state of the sports mode is not maintained for the predetermined entry delay time from the input point, determine that a driving mode of the vehicle is a previous driving mode.

13. The fuel measurement system according to claim 6 , wherein, when it is determined that a driving mode of the vehicle is the circuit driving mode, the controller is configured to:
display the calculated remaining fuel quantity through the fuel gauge.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• Kim Dong Hyun
• Park Jung Hoon
• Kim Keun Soo

Classifications

• G01F23/303 Primary

  characterised by means to prevent fault-level readings due to turbulence of the fluid, e.g. special float housings · CPC title

• B60K15/061 Primary

  with level control · CPC title

• B60K2015/03217

  Fuel level sensors · CPC title

• B60K2015/03197

  Systems for exchanging data · CPC title

• B60K15/03

  Fuel tanks · CPC title