IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,179,977
Granted Patent B2
US 11,179,977 · App. 16/626,068 · Granted Nov 23, 2021

Tire pressure monitoring system, tire pressure monitoring method, tire pressure monitoring program, and vehicle

Inventor: Shotaro Horikoshi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
B60C23/0433B60C23/0405B60C23/0486G01K7/00G01K13/00G01L17/00
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Patent No.
US 11,179,977
App. No.
16/626,068
Granted
Nov 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A tire pressure monitoring system ( 30 ) includes a data acquisition portion ( 101 ) that acquires data indicating a tire pressure and a tire temperature of the tire, from a sensor ( 50 FL), a sensor ( 50 FR), a sensor ( 50 RL), and a sensor ( 50 RR) mounted to the tire; a puncture determination portion ( 103 ) that determines whether the tire is punctured, based on a puncture determination threshold defined by a relationship between the tire pressure and the tire temperature; and a warning processing portion ( 105 ) that generates a warning indicating that the tire is punctured apart from a warning of a drop of the tire pressure when the puncture determination portion ( 103 ) determines that the tire is punctured.

Claims (55)

1. A tire pressure monitoring system that monitors a tire pressure of a tire mounted to a vehicle, the tire pressure monitoring system comprising:

a receiver that acquires data indicating the tire pressure and a tire temperature of the tire, from a sensor mounted to the tire; and

a processor that determines whether the tire is punctured, based on a puncture determination threshold defined by reference volume calculated by using a reference tire pressure, a reference tire temperature, the tire pressure acquired by the receiver, and the tire temperature acquired by the receiver,

wherein the processor determines that the tire is punctured, when the tire pressure is less than the tire puncture determination threshold linked to the tire temperature,

wherein the reference volume Vs is calculated by Formula 1 using the reference tire pressure Ps, the reference tire temperature Ts, the tire pressure P, the tire temperature T, the correction coefficient k T for the tire temperature, and the correction coefficient k P for the tire pressure.

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2. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor generates a warning indicating that the tire is puncture apart from a drop of the tire pressure, when the processor determines that the tire is punctured.

3. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein the puncture determination threshold is set to be 0.8 or more of the reference tire pressure linked to the reference tire temperature and 0.95 or less of the reference tire pressure, and the puncture determination threshold is more than a tire pressure drop threshold used for determining the drop of the tire pressure.

4. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein the reference tire temperature is defined by using a correction coefficient corresponding to at least one of measurement accuracy of the sensor and a type of the tire.

5. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein the reference tire pressure is defined by using a correction coefficient corresponding to at least one of measurement accuracy of the sensor and a type of the tire.

6. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor sets the reference volume and the puncture determination threshold,

wherein:

the processor sets the reference volume based on the tire pressure and the tire temperature of the tire without air leak; and

the processor sets the puncture determination threshold linked to the reference volume set by the volume setting portion.

7. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 2 , wherein the puncture determination threshold is set to be 0.8 or more of the reference tire pressure linked to the reference tire temperature and 0.95 or less of the reference tire pressure, and the puncture determination threshold is more than a tire pressure drop threshold used for determining the drop of the tire pressure.

8. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 2 , wherein the reference tire temperature is defined by using a correction coefficient corresponding to at least one of measurement accuracy of the sensor and a type of the tire.

9. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 3 , wherein the reference tire temperature is defined by using a correction coefficient corresponding to at least one of measurement accuracy of the sensor and a type of the tire.

10. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 2 , wherein the reference tire pressure is defined by using a correction coefficient corresponding to at least one of measurement accuracy of the sensor and a type of the tire.

11. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 3 , wherein the reference tire pressure is defined by using a correction coefficient corresponding to at least one of measurement accuracy of the sensor and a type of the tire.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 23, 2019
From: HORIKOSHI, SHOTARO
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051414/0785 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-124283 · Jun 26, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200215859A1 · Jul 9, 2020
Cited By (1)
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