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US 2004/0107036 A1Published application
Tire and system
OwnerDaniel E. Hicksinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a speed limiting system for a vehicle comprising: a sensor for detecting tire failure; a signal generator to transmit a signal indicating tire failure; a speed limiter for controlling vehicle speed that receives said signal, and limits vehicle speed according to a selected speed profile which goes from an initial higher speed to a lower speed. In one embodiment of the invention, the tire failure is sudden loss of tire pressure.
Claims7
A speed limiting system for a vehicle comprising:
- (a) sensor for detecting tire failure;
- (b) signal generator to transmit a signal indicating tire failure;
- (c) speed limiter for controlling vehicle speed to receive said signal, and limit vehicle speed according to;
- (d) a selected speed profile which goes from an initial higher speed to a lower speed.
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