Trailer tandem position sensor
AssigneeR.A. Phillips Industries, Inc.
InventorMarquis D. Doyle, III
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Abstract
A tandem position sensing system of a vehicle includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags coupled to a trailer or a chassis of the vehicle and arranged along a first direction; and an RFID reader coupled to a sliding tandem of the vehicle that is moveable relative to the trailer or the chassis, the RFID reader being configured to identify a unique identifier of one the plurality of RFID tags that is proximate to the RFID reader, the unique identifier corresponding to a position of the sliding tandem relative to the trailer or the chassis.
Claims17
A tandem position sensing system of a vehicle, comprising:
- a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags coupled to a trailer or a chassis of the vehicle and arranged along a first direction;
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- an RFID reader coupled to a sliding tandem of the vehicle that is moveable relative to the trailer or the chassis, the RFID reader being configured to identify a unique identifier of one of the plurality of RFID tags that is proximate to the RFID reader, the unique identifier corresponding to a position of the sliding tandem relative to the trailer or the chassis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.