Vehicle system and method to detect tire damage
AssigneeNexen Tire America, Inc.
InventorsDong Y Lee, Aaron Neumann, Nathan Billy, Lin Kung
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Abstract
A tire damage detection system for a vehicle includes: a tire; at least one sensor disposed in association with the tire to detect a noise signal when the tire rolls on a road surface to move the vehicle, the noise signal having a plurality of frequency peaks in a frequency spectrum of the noise signal; and a processor to monitor target frequency peaks of the frequency spectrum to detect damage of the tire, and to generate an alert signal in response to the detection of the damage of the tire.
Claims13
A tire damage detection system for a vehicle comprising:
- a tire;
- at least one sensor disposed in association with the tire to detect a noise signal when the tire rolls on a road surface to move the vehicle, the noise signal having a plurality of frequency peaks in a frequency spectrum of the noise signal;
- and
- a processor to monitor target frequency peaks of the frequency spectrum to detect damage of the tire, and to generate an alert signal in response to the detection of the damage of the tire.
A method of generating an alert signal to indicate damage of a tire mounted on a vehicle, the method comprising steps of:
- receiving a noise signal from at least one sensor disposed in association with the tire when the tire rolls on a road surface to move the vehicle;
- generating a frequency spectrum of the noise signal;
- monitoring target frequency peaks of a plurality of frequency peaks of the frequency spectrum to detect damage of the tire;
- and
- generating an alert signal in response to the detection of the damage of the tire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.