Method for configuring a tyre pressure sensor

• US 10,434,827 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2015
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH (Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH (Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Tomakidi, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson, Randy W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kidanu, Gedeon M
• Application Number:
  US15/110,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20160325592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,723 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0471 System initialisation, e.g. upload or calibration of operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0479 Communicating with external units being not part of the vehicle, e.g. tools for diagnostic, mobile phones, electronic keys or service stations
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/013 Wheels
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/02 Tyres
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

A method for the configuration of a tire pressure sensor for a vehicle, including the following steps: production of a data communication connection between a mobile radio device and a tire pressure sensor, selection of at least one specific sensor parameter for the vehicle via a mobile radio device, and activation of the at least one selected sensor parameter and the tire pressure sensor.

Claims

1. A method for configuration of a tyre pressure sensor for a vehicle, comprising:

producing a two-way data communication connection between a mobile phone and a tyre pressure sensor;

selecting at least one specific sensor parameter for the vehicle via the mobile phone; and

activating the at least one selected sensor parameter and the tyre pressure sensor,

wherein the data communication connection is established as a wireless connection.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the two-way data communication connection is established in a direct manner with the tyre pressure sensor.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the two-way data communication connection is established in an indirect manner via a control device of the vehicle.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method steps of producing the two-way data communication connection, selecting the at least one sensor parameter, and activating the at least one selected sensor parameter occur after mounting of the tyre pressure sensor on a wheel rim.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the two-way data communication connection is established on a basis of at least one of the following radio standards:

WLAN and Bluetooth.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein a step of selecting the at least one specific sensor parameter further comprises the nonselection of at least one other sensor parameter of the tyre pressure sensor.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a step of selecting the at least one specific sensor parameter is from a plurality of sensor parameters, the plurality of sensor parameters comprising at least two of:

a communication format for a control device of the vehicle, an area of the tyre pressure sensor, and a trigger limit of the tyre pressure sensor.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile phone represents a device, which is not a programming device for the tire pressure sensor, and is a device which serves as a primary function for the mobile radio or a similar utilization.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises sending a request for the at least one specific sensor parameter to the tyre pressure sensor from the mobile phone via the two-way data communication connection.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein a step of selecting the at least one sensor parameter specific for the vehicle occurs from a memory unit of the tyre pressure sensor.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein a step of selecting at least one sensor parameter specific for the vehicle occurs from predefined sensor parameters.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein a step of selecting the at least one sensor parameter specific for the vehicle occurs from a database in which the respective sensor parameter is saved.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the respective sensor parameter is saved in correlation to the respective vehicle.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein a step of selecting the at least one sensor parameter comprises selecting at least two sensor parameters specific for the vehicle, wherein said at least two sensor parameters are selected commonly via a selection of the vehicle.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the at least two sensor parameters specific for the vehicle are selected from a vehicle database.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the two-way data communication connection is provided between the mobile phone and at least two tyre pressure sensors of different wheels of the vehicle, and wherein the two-way data communication connection is generated for a common configuration of the at least two tyre pressure sensors.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the two-way data communication connection is generated for a common configuration with all tyre pressure sensors of all wheels of the vehicle.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tyre pressure sensor is selected for this method by scanning of a coding.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the tyre pressure sensor is selected via a scan device of the mobile phone.

20. A computer programme product for configuration of a mobile phone and saved on a non-transitory machine readable medium, comprising:

a machine readable programme, which arranges a processing unit to generate a two-way data communication connection between the mobile phone and a tyre pressure sensor,

the machine readable programme arranges the processing unit to select at least one sensor parameter specific for a vehicle via the mobile phone, and

the machine readable programme arranges the processing unit to activate at least one selected sensor parameter in the tyre pressure sensor.

21. The computer programme product according to claim 20, wherein the machine readable programme is configured for a method for the configuration of a tyre pressure sensor for a vehicle, comprising:

producing the two-way data communication connection between the mobile phone and the tyre pressure sensor;

selecting at least one specific sensor parameter for the vehicle via the mobile phone; and

activating the at least one selected sensor parameter and the tyre pressure sensor,

wherein the two-way data communication connection is established as a wireless connection.