# US 11,994,383 B2 · Method for sampling wheel acceleration and determining rotation angular position of wheel, and tire pressure monitoring system

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- Number: US 11,994,383 B2
- Document ID: US11994383B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/496,764
- Filed: 2021-10-08
- Published: 2022-04-14
- Granted: 2024-05-28
- Earliest claimed: 2020-10-12
- Assignees: Autochips Wuhan Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Autochips Wuhan Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Tao Zhang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11994383B2

## CPC

- B60C 23/0416: {allocating a corresponding wheel position on vehicle, e.g. front/left or rear/right}
- G01B 21/22: for measuring angles or tapers; for testing the alignment of axes
- B60C 23/0474: {Measurement control, e.g. setting measurement rate or calibrating of sensors; Further processing of measured values, e.g. filtering, compensating or slope monitoring}
- B60C 23/0488: {Movement sensor, e.g. for sensing angular speed, acceleration or centripetal force}
- B60C 23/0489: {for detecting the actual angular position of the monitoring device while the wheel is turning}
- G01L 17/00: Devices or apparatus for measuring tyre pressure or the pressure in other inflated bodies
- G01L 19/0092: {Pressure sensor associated with other sensors, e.g. for measuring acceleration or temperature (G01L9/025, G01L9/045, G01L9/065, G01L9/085, G01L9/105, G01L9/125, G01L19/02, G01L19/04 take precedence; measuring two or more variable G01D21/02; temperature sensors with pressure compensation G01K1/26)}
- G01P 3/00: Measuring linear or angular speed; Measuring differences of linear or angular speeds (G01P5/00 - G01P11/00 take precedence; {direction and speed indication G01P13/045}; counting mechanisms G06M)
- G07C 5/0825: {using optical means}
- Y02T 90/00: Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
- B60C: VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES
- G01B: MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01L: MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE (weighing G01G)
- G01P: MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT (measuring or recording blood flow A61B5/02, A61B8/06; monitoring speed or deceleration of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L3/00; vehicle lighting systems adapted to indicate speed B60Q1/54; determining position or course in navigation, measuring ground distance in geodesy or surveying G01C; combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement G01C23/00; measuring velocity of sound G01H; measuring velocity of light G01J7/00; measuring direction or velocity of solid objects by reception or emission of radiowaves or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, direction of propagation, G01S; measuring speed of nuclear radiation G01T; measuring acceleration of gravity G01V; {measuring or recording the speed of trains B61L23/00; speed indicators incorporated in motor vehicles B60K35/00; measuring frequency or phase G01R; traffic control G08G})
- G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

A method for sampling wheel acceleration, a method for determining rotation angular position of a wheel, and a tire pressure monitoring system are disclosed. The method for sampling wheel acceleration may include: acquiring a real-time wheel acceleration value of a target wheel and calculating a time length required to rotate for a preset number of revolutions of the target wheel according to a first association relationship between the wheel acceleration and the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions of the target wheel; obtaining a time interval between any two adjacent sampling points according to the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions; and sampling the wheel acceleration of the target wheel once every the time interval starting from any time.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for sampling wheel acceleration, comprising:
acquiring, through a tire pressure monitoring device installed on a target wheel, a real-time wheel acceleration value of the target wheel and calculating a time length required to rotate for a preset number of revolutions of the target wheel according to a first association relationship between the wheel acceleration and the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions of the target wheel;
obtaining a time interval between any two adjacent sampling points according to the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions; and
sampling the wheel acceleration of the target wheel once at every time interval starting from any time,
wherein the first association relationship is established by a means, which comprises:
obtaining a plurality of relationship curves between wheel accelerations and wheel rotation frequencies of a plurality of wheels with different radiuses in a preset radius range; and
performing segmental matching for the relationship curves, and obtaining the first association relationship between the wheel acceleration and the time length required to rotate for the preset number of revolutions, wherein the first association relationship is suited for any wheel with any radius in the preset radius range.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A method for determining rotation angular position of a wheel, comprising:
sampling wheel acceleration of a target wheel for N times from a first moment to a third moment to obtain N wheel acceleration values of the target wheel by using the method for sampling wheel acceleration as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the N wheel acceleration values comprises at least one of a centrifugal acceleration component and a tangential acceleration component;
obtaining a rotation frequency value of the target wheel according to the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling;
acquiring a first rotation angular position of the target wheel at the first moment based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel and the N wheel acceleration values; and
acquiring a second rotation angular position of the target wheel at a second moment based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, the first rotation angular position, and a time length between the first moment and the second moment;
wherein the second moment is earlier than or the same as the third moment.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the block of obtaining a rotation frequency value of the target wheel according to the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling comprises:
performing averaging process for the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling, and obtaining N processed wheel acceleration values;
performing a frequency domain processing for the N processed wheel acceleration values, to obtain a corresponding spectrogram; and
acquiring a frequency value corresponding to a spectrum point with a maximum dB value in the spectrogram, to serve as the rotation frequency value of the target wheel.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method as claimed in claim 3, the block of performing a frequency domain processing for the N processed wheel acceleration values, to obtain a corresponding spectrogram, comprises:
performing one of a discrete fourier transform operation and a fast fourier transform operation for the N processed wheel acceleration values, to obtain the corresponding spectrogram.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the preset number is P, P is smaller than or equal to N;
wherein the block of acquiring a frequency value corresponding to a spectrum point with a maximum dB value in the spectrogram, to serve as the rotation frequency value of the target wheel comprises:
when P is an integer number, acquiring a frequency value corresponding to the P-th spectrum point in the spectrogram, to serve as the rotation frequency value of the target wheel; and
when P is a non-integer number, acquiring a first frequency value corresponding to a first spectrum point with an integer serial number in the spectrogram less than the non-integer number P and nearest to the non-integer number P, and a second frequency value corresponding to a second spectrum point with an integer serial number in the spectrogram larger than the non-integer number P and nearest to the non-integer number P, and obtaining the rotation frequency value of the target wheel by performing a weighting processing for the first frequency value and the second frequency value.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the block of acquiring a first rotation angular position of the target wheel at the first moment based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel and the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling comprises:
acquiring a second association relationship between wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling and sampling moments, based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, wherein the second association relationship is: y=A*sin (2πf*t+φ1), wherein t is any sampling moment starting from the first moment, y is a corresponding wheel acceleration value obtained by sampling at the sampling moment t, A is a variation amplitude of the wheel acceleration, f is the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, and φ1 is a phase of the wheel acceleration at the first moment; and
acquiring the first rotation angular position based on the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling, corresponding sampling moments of the N wheel acceleration values, and the second association relationship.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the block of acquiring the first rotation angular position based on the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling, corresponding sampling moments of the N wheel acceleration values, and the second association relationship comprises:
substituting each of the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling and a corresponding sampling moment of each of the N wheel acceleration values into the second association relationship respectively, and using a least square algorithm, to obtain an optimal solution of the phase φ1 of the wheel acceleration at the first moment, which is served as the first rotation angular position.

### Claim 8 (depends on 2)

The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the block of acquiring a second rotation angular position of the target wheel at the second moment based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, the first rotation angular position, and a time length between the first moment and the second moment comprises:
determining a third association relationship between the first rotation angular position and the second rotation angular position;
obtaining the second rotation angular position according to the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, the first rotation angular position, the time length between the first moment and the second moment, and the third association relationship.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the third association relationship is: φ2=2πf*t′+φ1, wherein f is the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, t′ is the time length between the first moment and the second moment, φ1 is the first rotation angular position, and φ2 is the second rotation angular position.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the time length between the second moment and the first moment is equal to a time length between the third moment and the second moment.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

A tire pressure monitoring system, comprising at least one tire pressure monitoring device, a plurality of wheel speed sensors, a vehicle processor, and a display coupled to one another;
wherein each of the at least one tire pressure monitoring device is installed on a corresponding target wheel of a vehicle and configured to acquire pressure data of the corresponding target wheel, a first rotation angular position of the corresponding target wheel at a first moment, and a second rotation angular position of the corresponding target wheel at a second moment, and to send the pressure data of the corresponding target wheel, the first rotation angular position of the corresponding target wheel at the first moment and the second rotation angular position of the corresponding target wheel at the second moment to the vehicle processor;
wherein the plurality of wheel speed sensors are installed on all wheels of the vehicle in a one to one correspondence and each of the plurality of wheel speed sensors is configured to acquire a reference angular position difference of a corresponding wheel between the first moment and the second moment, and to send the reference angular position difference of the corresponding wheel between the first moment and the second moment to the vehicle processor;
wherein the vehicle processor is configured to position the corresponding target wheel based on a magnitude relationship between a target angular position difference and the reference angular position difference of each wheel, and to control the display to display a positioning result and the pressure data of the corresponding target wheel, wherein the target angular position difference is a difference between the second rotation angular position and the first rotation angular position,
wherein each of the at least one tire pressure monitoring device is configured to:
sampling wheel acceleration of the target wheel for N times from the first moment to a third moment to obtain N wheel acceleration values of the target wheel by using the method for sampling wheel acceleration as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the N wheel acceleration values comprises at least one of a centrifugal acceleration component and a tangential acceleration component;
obtaining a rotation frequency value of the target wheel according to the N wheel acceleration values obtained by sampling;
acquiring the first rotation angular position of the target wheel at the first moment based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel and the N wheel acceleration values; and
acquiring the second rotation angular position of the target wheel at the second moment based on the rotation frequency value of the target wheel, the first rotation angular position, and a time length between the first moment and the second moment;
wherein the second moment is earlier than or the same as the third moment.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The tire pressure monitoring system as claimed in claim 11, wherein each tire pressure monitoring device comprises a tire pressure monitoring chip and a battery, the tire pressure monitoring chip comprises a pressure sensor, an acceleration sensor, a controller, and a radio frequency emitter, the controller is an microcontroller unit and powered by the battery, the pressure sensor and the acceleration sensor couple to the microcontroller via a multiplexer and a differential amplifier circuit, the radio frequency emitter employs a 434 MHz antenna for data transmission and transmits the data to the vehicle processor.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The tire pressure monitoring system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display comprises a plurality of alarm lights having a one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of tires, the vehicle processor is configured to control an alarm light corresponding to a tire to light up, when a tire pressure of the tire is not in a preset range.