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AssigneeBridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
InventorRamy S. Hanna
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A system for vehicle wheel position localization includes sensors mounted on each tire of a vehicle. Each axle of the vehicle is associated with a first directional antenna arranged to capture wireless output signals from each tire on one side and a second directional antenna arranged to capture wireless output signals from each tire on the other side. A data processing unit (e.g., onboard controller, remote server) receives the output signals from each sensor via at least the respective directional antennas, and automatically identifies respective wheel locations on the vehicle based on a mapped relative location for each of the directional antennas and further based on a detected relative output signal strength for any tire and/or wheel sensors associated with axles having a plurality of tires on each side of the vehicle. A switching device may optionally enable selection between each directional antenna for implementation of the respective output signals.
A system for vehicle wheel position localization, comprising:
A computer-implemented method for wheel position localization on a vehicle comprising at least one tire and/or wheel sensor respectively associated with each of a plurality of tires mounted thereon, wherein the vehicle further comprises at least one axle having a single tire on each of a first side and a second side and at least one axle having a plurality of tires on each of the first side and the second side, and wherein for each of the axles, a first directional antenna is arranged to capture wireless output signals from the respective at least one tire associated with the axle on the first side and a second directional antenna arranged to capture wireless output signals from the respective at least one tire associated with the axle on the second side, wherein the method comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.