Tire protecting apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyoshi Kojima
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Abstract
A tire protecting apparatus mounted on a vehicle provided with a wheel having a tire on a wheel filled with pressurized air, which protects the tire from abnormally deforming while the vehicle is running, is provided with a tire temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the tire, and a determinator that determines whether it is necessary to cool the tire based on the tire temperature detected by the tire temperature sensor when there is a possibility that abnormal tire deformation will occur. Accordingly, the invention protects the tire from abnormally deforming by considering the temperature of the tire while the vehicle is running.
Claims23
A tire protecting apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a tire;
- and
- a controller that:
- receives the temperature of the tire from the temperature sensor;
- determines whether it is necessary to cool the tire based on the received temperature of the tire;
- and
- if it is necessary to cool the tire, controls the speed of the vehicle such that a cooling effect on the tire from a flow of air around the tire does not diminish.
A tire protecting apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a tire temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the tire;
- and
- a controller that:
- receives the temperature of the tire from the temperature sensor;
- controls a vehicle speed of the vehicle based on the received temperature of the tire;
- determines a target temperature of the tire based on both of a heating factor that heats the tire and a cooling effect on the tire from a flow of air around the tire;
- and
- controls the vehicle speed such that the temperature of the tire approaches the target temperature;
- wherein the cooling effect on the tire does not diminish when it has been determined that it is necessary to cool the tire.
A tire protecting apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a tire temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the tire;
- and
- a controller that:
- receives the temperature of the tire;
- determines whether it is necessary to cool the tire based on the received temperature of the tire;
- decelerates the vehicle when it has been determined that there is a possibility of abnormal tire deformation occurring;
- and
- stops deceleration of the vehicle when it has been determined that it is necessary to cool the tire during deceleration of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.