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US 9,844,984 B2Granted
Vehicle tire gauge systems
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorHassan Elnajjar
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Abstract
An example of a vehicle tire gauge system includes a tire pressure monitoring system in a vehicle. A transceiver in the vehicle is for transmitting a tire pressure sensed by the tire pressure monitoring system to a paired wearable device. A tire pressure table is stored in a model of an application having a view on the wearable device. A haptic feedback generator in the wearable device is responsive to the tire pressure reaching a first value, wherein the first value is contained in the tire pressure table.
Claims21
A system, comprising:
- a tire pressure monitoring system operatively positioned on at least one vehicle tire, the tire pressure monitoring system comprising a unique identifier associated with the at least one vehicle tire and a pressure sensing element configured to collect pressure data from the at least one vehicle tire while the vehicle is stationary during a tire inflation event;
- a paired wearable device configured to be disposed outside of the vehicle during the tire inflation event;
- a transceiver in the vehicle for transmitting the unique identifier and a tire pressure sensed by the pressure sensing element to the paired wearable device;
- a tire pressure table stored in a model of an application having a view on the wearable device;
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- a haptic feedback generator in the wearable device responsive to the tire pressure reaching a first value, wherein the first value is contained in the tire pressure table.
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A vehicle tire gauge system, comprising:
- a vehicle including:
- a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) operatively positioned on at least one vehicle tire, the tire pressure monitoring system including:
- a unique identifier associated with the at least one vehicle tire;
- a pressure sensing element configured to collect tire pressure data from the at least one vehicle tire while the vehicle is stationary during a tire inflation event;
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- a TPMS wireless communication platform to transmit the unique identifier and the tire pressure data;
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- a vehicle communications platform to receive the tire pressure data directly or indirectly from the TPMS wireless communications platform;
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- a smart watch configured to be disposed outside of the vehicle during the tire inflation event, the smart watch including:
- a smart watch communications platform to receive the tire pressure data from the vehicle communications platform;
- a microprocessor operatively connected to the smart watch communications platform, the microprocessor programmed to generate a haptic command signal in accordance with the received tire pressure data;
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- a haptic generator operatively connected to the microprocessor, the haptic generator having a haptic feedback function responsive to the haptic command signal.
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A vehicle tire pressure gauge method, comprising:
- while the vehicle is stationary, recognizing that a smart watch is within short range wireless communication with a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) operatively positioned on at least one vehicle tire;
- in response to the recognizing and when the smart watch is located outside of the vehicle, launching a tire pressure application resident on an electronic memory of the smart watch;
- during a tire inflation event, measuring a tire pressure with a pressure sensing element of the TPMS;
- receiving, at a smart watch communications platform, the tire pressure of the at least one vehicle tire;
- generating, by a microprocessor operatively connected to the smart watch communications platform, a haptic command signal in accordance with the received tire pressure;
- generating, by a haptic generator operatively connected to the microprocessor, a haptic feedback effect in response to the haptic command signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.