Tire State Monitoring System
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuji KODAMA, Koji NAKATANI
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Abstract
A tire state monitoring system includes: tire state acquisition devices installed on tires of a host vehicle, each of the tire state acquisition devices being configured to acquire a tire state quantity; a monitoring device configured to receive an output signal from each of the tire state acquisition devices and perform predetermined processing; and an alerting device configured to issue an alert to a following vehicle. In addition, the monitoring device causes the alerting device to operate when a predetermined abnormality has arisen in the tire state quantity.
Claims18
A tire state monitoring system comprising:
- a plurality of tire state acquisition devices installed on a plurality of tires of a host vehicle, each of the tire state acquisition devices being configured to acquire a tire state quantity;
- a monitoring device configured to receive an output signal from each of the plurality of tire state acquisition devices and perform predetermined processing;
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- an alerting device configured to issue an alert to a following vehicle,
- the monitoring device being configured to cause the alerting device to operate when a predetermined abnormality has arisen in the tire state quantity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.