US 7,467,034 B2Granted

Tire monitoring techniques

AssigneeAutomotive Technologies International, Inc.

InventorsDavid S. Breed, Wendell C. Johnson, Wilbur E. DuVall

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Abstract

Method for obtaining information about tires on a vehicle includes arranging a tire monitor on each tire, arranging an interrogator on the vehicle, arranging antennas on the vehicle, each antenna being spaced apart from one another and associated with some tires and further being spaced different distances from the tire monitors on the associated tires, wirelessly transmitting initiation signals from the interrogator to each tire monitor through the antennas to cause each tire monitor to provide signals containing information about one or more properties of the tire on which the tire monitor is arranged, receiving the signals provided by the tire monitors at the antennas, directing the signals from the antennas to the interrogator, and determining a location of each tire monitor and thus a location of a tire on which the tire monitor is arranged by analyzing the signals provided by each tire monitor.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for obtaining information about a plurality of tires on a single vehicle, comprising:

arranging a tire monitor on each of the plurality of tires to provide signals containing information about one or more properties of the tire on which the tire monitor is arranged;
arranging an interrogator on the vehicle to transmit initiation signals to cause the tire monitors to provide their signals;
arranging a plurality of antennas on the vehicle and coupling the antennas to the interrogator, each of the antennas being spaced apart from one another and associated with at least a portion of the plurality of tires, each antenna being spaced different distances from the tire monitors on the associated tires;
wirelessly transmitting the initiation signals from the interrogator to each of the tire monitors through the antennas to cause each tire monitor to provide signals containing information about one or more properties of the tire on which the tire monitor is arranged;
receiving the signals provided by the tire monitors at the antennas;
directing the signals from the antennas to the interrogator;
and
determining a location of each tire monitor and thus a location of a tire on which the tire monitor is arranged by analyzing the signals provided by each tire monitor whereby the information provided by the tire monitors is thereby associatable with the tires.

5 more elements

A method for obtaining information about a plurality of tires on a single vehicle, comprising:

arranging a tire monitor on each of the plurality of tires to provide signals containing information about one or more properties of the tire on which the tire monitor is arranged;
arranging an interrogator on the vehicle to transmit initiation signals to cause the tire monitors to provide their signals;
arranging at least one antenna on the vehicle and coupling each of the at least one antenna to the interrogator, each of the at least one antenna being associated with a portion of the plurality of tires and spaced different distances from the tire monitors on the associated tires;
wirelessly transmitting initiation signals from the interrogator to each of the tire monitors through the at least one antenna to cause each tire monitor to provide signals containing information about one or more properties of the tire on which the tire monitor is arranged;
directing the signals from the tire monitors to the interrogator via the at least one antenna;
and
determining a location of each tire monitor and thus a location of a tire on which the tire monitor is arranged by analyzing the signals provided by each tire monitor whereby the information provided by the tire monitors is thereby associatable with the tires.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/554,342Filed 30 Oct 2006 · continuation in part
Priority: 4 Nov 2002
Published: US 2007/0005202 A15 Jul 2007
Granted: 16 Dec 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B60C 23/0408
Mounted on the wheel or tyre: transmitting the signals by non-mechanical means from the wheel or tyre to a vehicle body mounted receiver
B60C 23/007
Devices specially adapted for special wheel arrangements: having multiple wheels arranged side by side
B60C 23/008
Devices specially adapted for special wheel arrangements: having wheels on more than two axles
B60C
Vehicle tyres

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Application60/423,613Us provisional application · filed 4 Nov 2002
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