Patent ID: 9597620
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B01D,F02B,G01M,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of detecting a use status of a serviceable product component of an engine comprising: detecting, by a sensor of the engine, information from the serviceable product component installed in an engine, the information including an in-use status flag, wherein the in-use flag indicates whether the serviceable product component has been used; receiving, at an electronic control module of the engine, the information detected from the serviceable product component at an initial system activation; determining, by the electronic control module, that the serviceable product component has been newly installed based on the information detected from the serviceable product component at the initial system activation, wherein the initial system activation comprises an engine start-up; and in response to determining that the serviceable product component has been newly installed, indicating, by the electronic control module and through the in-use flag, that the serviceable product component has now been used by permanently changing the in-use flag on the serviceable product component from indicating the serviceable product component has never been used to indicating that the serviceable product component has been used.