Vehicle system and method for determining a location of tire pressure monitoring sensor
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorJung Hoon Oh
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle system and a method for determining a location of a tire pressure sensor. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a vehicle system including: a plurality of tire pressure sensors configured to sense air pressure of a tire of a vehicle including a double wheel; a plurality of wheel speed sensors configured to sense a speed of each wheel of the vehicle; and a tire pressure sensor location determining apparatus configured to determine locations of the tire pressure sensors using wheel pulse counter values inputted from the wheel speed sensors whenever the tire pressure sensors transmit tire pressure detection signals.
Claims17
A vehicle system comprising:
- a plurality of tire pressure sensors, each tire pressure sensor being configured to sense air pressure of a tire for use with a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a double wheel;
- the plurality of tire pressure sensors including a first tire pressure sensor mounted in an inner wheel and a second tire pressure sensor mounted in an outer wheel of the double wheel;
- a plurality of wheel speed sensors, each wheel speed sensor being configured to sense a speed of a corresponding wheel of the vehicle;
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- a tire pressure sensor location determining apparatus configured to determine respective locations of the tire pressure sensors on the basis of wheel pulse counter values,
- wherein the wheel pulse counter values are inputted from the wheel speed sensors whenever the tire pressure sensors transmit tire pressure detection signals, and
- wherein, upon transmitting the tire pressure detection signals, a processor determines whether the wheel pulse counter values of the wheel speed sensors have constantly increasing values, so as to determine a location of the double wheel.
A method for determining a location of a tire pressure monitoring sensor, comprising:
- receiving and storing, by a processor, signals from a plurality of tire pressure sensors and a plurality of wheel speed sensors, the plurality of tire pressure sensors including a first tire pressure sensor mounted in an inner wheel and a second tire pressure sensor mounted in an outer wheel of a double wheel;
- determining, by the processor, respective locations of the tire pressure sensors using wheel pulse counter values inputted from the wheel speed sensors whenever the tire pressure sensors transmit tire pressure detection signals;
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- upon transmitting the tire pressure detection signals, determining, by the processor, whether the wheel pulse counter values of the wheel speed sensors have constantly increasing values, so as to determine a location of the double wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.