Tire receiving force sensing apparatus
AssigneeNippon Soken, Inc.
InventorsYusuke Ueda, Motonori Tominaga
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Abstract
Each of a plurality of distance sensors is provided adjacent to a corresponding one of a plurality of displaceable portions that are displaced upon application of at least one of a brake force and a drive force to a tire. Each distance sensor measures an amount of displacement of the corresponding displaceable portion upon the application of the at least one of the brake force and the drive force to the tire. An ECU computes a target tire receiving force component based on the amounts of displacement, which are measured with the plurality of displacement measurement sensors, respectively, while eliminating an unnecessary tire receiving force component.
Claims7
A tire receiving force sensing apparatus that senses a tire receiving force, which is applied to a tire of a vehicle, the tire receiving force sensing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of displacement measurement sensors, each of which is provided adjacent to a corresponding one of a plurality of displaceable portions that are displaced upon application of at least one of a brake force and a drive force to the tire, wherein each of the plurality of displacement measurement sensors measures an amount of displacement of the corresponding one of the plurality of displaceable portions upon the application of the at least one of the brake force and the drive force to the tire;
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- a computing means for computing a target tire receiving force component based on the amounts of displacement, which are measured with the plurality of displacement measurement sensors, respectively, while eliminating an unnecessary tire receiving force component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.