Tire pressure monitoring method
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsJack Edward Brown, Jr., Peter Ross Shepler, Robert Leon Benedict
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Abstract
Methods of monitoring tire pressure and responding to a tire pressure error. A tire pressure monitoring apparatus provides signals to a vehicle control representing pressures in respective ones of the tires. The vehicle control first detects a tire pressure error in one of the tires, and then presents to a user a first signal representing the tire pressure error in the one of the tires. Then, a user input representing a prospective tire filling activity is detected. Thereafter, a second signal is presented to the user in response to a pressure in the one of the tires being substantially equal to a desired tire pressure.
Claims15
A method of monitoring pressures in respective tires of a vehicle, the vehicle having tire pressure monitoring apparatus providing signals to a vehicle control representing pressures in respective ones of the tires, the vehicle control having user I/O, and the method comprising:
- detecting a tire pressure error in one of the tires;
- presenting to a user a first sensory perceptible signal representing the tire pressure error in the one of the tires;
- then, detecting a user input representing a prospective tire filling activity;
- then, detecting a change in a tire pressure in a first tire;
- determining if the first tire is substantially the same as the one of the tires;
- presenting to the user a second sensory perceptible signal in response to the first tire being different from the one of the tires;
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- then, presenting a third sensory perceptible signal to the user in response to a pressure in the one of the tires being substantially equal to a desired tire pressure.
A method of monitoring pressures in respective tires of a vehicle, the vehicle having tire pressure monitoring apparatus providing signals to a vehicle control representing pressures in respective ones of the tires, the vehicle control having user I/O, and the method comprising:
- activating the user I/O with the vehicle control to provide a tire pressure error signal identifying at least one of the tires having a pressure error;
- then, monitoring the user I/O with the vehicle control to detect a user input representing a prospective tire filling activity;
- determining with the vehicle control a change of tire pressure in a first tire;
- determining with the vehicle control whether the first tire is the same as the at least one of the tires;
- activating the user I/O with the vehicle control to provide a wrong tire signal in response to the first tire being different from the at least one of the tires;
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- then, activating the user I/O with the vehicle control to provide a tire filled signal in response to the pressure in the at least one tire being substantially equal to a desired tire pressure.
A method of monitoring pressure in tires of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining a presence of a tire pressure error in at least one of the tires;
- generating a tire pressure error signal identifying the at least one of the tires in response to the determined tire pressure error;
- then, detecting a user input representing a tire filling activity;
- determining a change of tire pressure in a first tire;
- determining whether the first tire is the same as the at least one of the tires;
- generating a wrong tire signal in response to the first tire being different from the at least one of the tires;
- and
- then, generating a tire filled signal in response to the pressure in the first tire being substantially equal to a fill tire pressure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.