A System and Method to Determine Soak Time Delphi Technologies Incorporated

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Sundar, Bharath, author.

Contributor:

Allen, William J.

Conference Name:

SAE Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting (2020-09-22 : Krakow, Poland)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2020

Summary:

In a competitive engineering business world, there is a constant push to meet stringent Emissions and on board diagnostic regulations in a cost-effective manner. Engineers are tasked with the responsibility to innovate and design solutions around these cost-cutting measures. Varied features in commercial ASIC devices make it more challenging to create consistent engineering design methods to provide critical inputs for controls and diagnostic strategies. In addition, continuous evolution of the emissions and OBD regulations in the different markets makes it challenging for ASIC design manufacturers to evolve their hardware designs very quickly. One such input is soak time. Soak Time is typically defined as the amount of time the engine has been turned off. Emission controls and OBD I and OBD II algorithms use soak time to enable cold and hot start processing strategies There are many methods and patents that describe how soak time can be measured. Typically time is measured from the registers of an ASIC power supply hardware through a low power counter. However, some commercial ASIC's do not provide the capability of reading time from the registers of a power supply. Although there maybe an errata in the silicon preventing the registers from being read, in most cases the hardware design of the ASIC doesn't provide the capability of reading time from its registers.The proposal described here lays out an algorithm that leverages existing features in an ASIC to calculate soak time in the event time cannot be measured. Engineering tradeoff's will be discussed, coupled with downstream controls and diagnostic input strategy changes that would be required to accommodate this method of calculation. An example of a customer application with supporting data for a diagnostic function will be provided to show evidence of technical feasibility

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Publisher Number:

2020-01-2016

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license