Parking assistance device using tire pressure monitoring system

• US 10,632,800 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2017
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HL Klemove Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mando Corporation (Halla Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Dong Ik
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jelani A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alsomiri, Majdi
• Application Number:
  US15/486,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20170297385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/02 Signalling devices actuated by tyre pressure hand-held tyre pressure gauges G01L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3685 the POI's being parking facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/02 by conversion into electric waveforms and subsequent integration, e.g. using tachometer generator G01C22/002, G01C22/004, G01C22/006 take precedence

Abstract

A parking assistance device includes: a sensor configured to search for a parking space around a vehicle; a tire pressure monitoring system configured to measure and monitor a tire pressure of the vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to calculate a moving distance of the vehicle moving to the parking space according to the tire pressure, to estimate a position of the vehicle by using the calculated moving distance, and to generate a parking command. The moving distance of the vehicle is calculated by using a moving distance per revolution of a tire measured and is set according to a tire pressure range to which the tire pressure of the vehicle belongs, a wheel pulse of the tire of the vehicle, and a reference wheel pulse per revolution of the tire.

Claims

1. A parking assistance device comprising:

a sensor configured to search for a parking space around a vehicle;

a tire pressure monitoring system configured to measure a tire pressure of the vehicle; and

an electronic control unit configured to;

calculate a moving distance of the vehicle moving to the parking space according to the tire pressure;

estimate a position of the vehicle by using the calculated moving distance; and

generate a parking command,

wherein the moving distance of the vehicle is calculated by using a moving distance per revolution of a tire, and the moving distance of the vehicle is set according to a tire pressure range to which the tire pressure of the vehicle belongs, a wheel pulse of the tire of the vehicle, and a reference wheel pulse per revolution of the tire,

wherein the parking assistance device releases a parking assistance function when a tire pressure difference between a first wheel and a second wheel, which is different from the first wheel, deviates from a preset difference,

wherein the moving distance of the vehicle is the wheel pulse of the tire of the vehicle multiplied by the moving distance per revolution of the tire and divided by the reference wheel pulse per revolution of the tire,

wherein the wheel pulse of the tire of the vehicle is a value measured through a wheel sensor of the vehicle, and

wherein the moving distance per revolution of the tire is a value measured and set according to the tire pressure range.

2. The parking assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the tire pressure range is divided into a first pressure range that is lower than an appropriate pressure, a second pressure range that is within the appropriate pressure, and a third pressure range that is higher than the appropriate pressure.

3. The parking assistance device according to claim 2, wherein the parking assistance device releases the parking assistance function when the tire pressure deviates from a preset level.

4. The parking assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the tire pressure range includes prestored values.

5. The parking assistance device according to claim 4, wherein the moving distance per revolution of the tire is set at a point where the tire turns one revolution by the wheel pulse measured through the wheel sensor according to the tire pressure range to which the tire pressure of the vehicle belongs.

6. The parking assistance device according to claim 5, wherein the parking assistance device releases the parking assistance function when the tire pressure deviates from a preset level.

7. The parking assistance device according to claim 4, wherein the parking assistance device releases the parking assistance function when the tire pressure deviates from a preset level.

8. The parking assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the parking assistance device releases the parking assistance function when the tire pressure deviates from a preset level.

9. The parking assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the first wheel includes a front wheel and the second wheel includes a rear wheel.

10. The parking assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the first wheel includes a right wheel and the second wheel includes a left wheel.