Hand held tire pressure gauge and method for assisting a user to determine whether a tire pressure is within a target range using a hand-held tire pressure gauge
AssigneeMeasurement Ltd.
InventorSteven Petrucelli
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Abstract
A handheld tire pressure gauge including: a display; a pressure sensor; a memory; a processor being operatively coupled to the display, pressure sensor and memory; and, code being stored in the memory and operable by the processor to: retrieve at least one value indicative of a target tire pressure from the memory, determine a pressure sensed by the pressure sensor, and, cause the display to present information indicative of the target tire pressure and sensed pressure.
Claims21
A handheld tire pressure gauge comprising:
- a housing adapted to fit in a user's hand, the housing containing:
- a memory capable of storing at least one target tire pressure value and at least one measured tire pressure value;
- a display capable of presenting information in at least a graphical form;
- a pressure sensor;
- a processor being operatively coupled to said display, pressure sensor and memory;
- and
- code being stored in said memory and operable by said processor to:
- retrieve said at least one target tire pressure value from said memory, determine a pressure sensed by said pressure sensor, and cause said display to present said target tire pressure and said pressure sensed by said pressure sensor.
A method for assisting a user to compare a tire pressure with a target tire pressure using a handheld digital tire pressure gauge having a housing adapted to fit in a user's hand, comprising:
- presenting graphically a tire on a display;
- retrieving at least one value indicative of said target tire pressure for said displayed tire;
- displaying said at least one value indicative of said target tire pressure on said display;
- sensing a tire pressure;
- and
- displaying said at least one value indicative of said target tire pressure and a value indicative of the sensed tire pressure.
A handheld tire pressure gauge comprising:
- a housing adapted to fit in a user's hand, the housing containing:
- a memory capable of storing at least one target tire pressure value and at least one measured tire pressure value;
- a display capable of presenting information in at least a graphical form;
- a pressure sensor;
- a speaker;
- a processor being operatively coupled to said display, pressure sensor, speaker and memory;
- and
- code being stored in said memory and operable by said processor to:
- retrieve said at least one target tire pressure value from said memory, determine a pressure sensed by said pressure sensor, cause said speaker to emit an audio signal upon successfully sensing said pressure and cause said display to present a value indicative of said sensed pressure for a predetermined period of time.
A handheld tire pressure gauge comprising:
- a housing adapted to fit in a user's hand, the housing containing:
- a memory;
- a display capable of presenting information in at least a graphical form;
- a pressure sensor;
- a port at a first end of said housing, said port allowing said pressure sensor to be subjected to a tire pressure;
- a lighting source disposed substantially adjacent to said port;
- a processor being operatively coupled to said display, memory and pressure sensor;
- and
- code being stored in said memory and operable by said processor to:
- retrieve said at least one target tire pressure value from said memory, determine a tire pressure sensed by said pressure sensor, and cause said display to present said at least one target pressure value and said tire pressure sensed by said pressure sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.