Vehicle-state obtaining apparatus
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1. A vehicle-state obtaining apparatus comprising:
- a sensing device including at least one sensor to detect a state of at least a portion of a vehicle, and operable to transmit, by radio communication, sensor information including the state detected by said at least one sensor; and
an information processing device operable to receive said sensor information and obtain the state of the vehicle on the basis of the received sensor information, wherein said information processing device comprises an initiating portion which initiates an operation to obtain the state of the vehicle when it is recognized by one-way or two-way communication of key information between the information processing device and the sensing device that said sensing device and said information processing device correspond to each other.
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A vehicle-state obtaining apparatus, comprising (a) a sensing device including at least one sensor detecting a state of a vehicle and operable to transmit, by radio communication, sensor information including the vehicle state detected by the sensor, and (b) an information processing device operable to receive the sensor information and obtain the vehicle state on the basis of the received sensor information, wherein the information processing device obtains the vehicle state when it is recognized by one-way or two-way communication of key information between the information processing device and the sensing device that these two devices correspond to each other.
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1. A vehicle-state obtaining apparatus comprising:
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a sensing device including at least one sensor to detect a state of at least a portion of a vehicle, and operable to transmit, by radio communication, sensor information including the state detected by said at least one sensor; and
an information processing device operable to receive said sensor information and obtain the state of the vehicle on the basis of the received sensor information, wherein said information processing device comprises an initiating portion which initiates an operation to obtain the state of the vehicle when it is recognized by one-way or two-way communication of key information between the information processing device and the sensing device that said sensing device and said information processing device correspond to each other. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A vehicle-state obtaining device comprising:
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a plurality of wheel-side devices provided on a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, respectively, each of said wheel-side devices including at least one sensor to detect a state of a corresponding one of said wheels, said each wheel-side device being operable to transmit wheel information including the state of said corresponding wheel detected by said at least one sensor; and
a body-side device provided on a body of the vehicle and including an information processing device operable to obtain the states of said plurality of wheels on the basis of said sensor wheel transmitted by said plurality of wheel-side devices, wherein two-way communication of information is effected between said plurality of wheel-side devices and said body-side device, wherein said body-side device includes a plurality of body-side transmitting portions which are provided for said plurality of wheels, respectively, and which transmit respective different kinds of information, and each of said plurality of wheel-side devices includes a reception-state obtaining portion operable to obtain a state of reception of at least one of said different kinds of information transmitted by at least one of said body-side transmitting portions, and wherein one of said information processing device and said each wheel-side device includes a specific-information obtaining portion operable to obtain specific information indicative of said each wheel-side device, on the basis of said state of reception obtained by said reception-state obtaining portion. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A vehicle-state obtaining apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of wheel-side devices provided on a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, respectively, each of said wheel-side devices including a sensor to detect a state of a corresponding one of said wheels, said each wheel-side device being operable to transmit wheel information including the state of said corresponding wheel detected by said sensor; and
a body-side device provided on a body of the vehicle and including an information processing device operable to obtain the states of said plurality of wheels on the basis of said wheel information transmitted by said plurality of wheel-side devices, wherein two-way communication of information is effected between said plurality of wheel-side devices and said body-side device, wherein said body-side device includes a plurality of body-side transceiver portions which are provided for said plurality of wheels, respectively, and a transmission control portion operable to sequentially operate said plurality of body-side transceiver portions such that when information is transmitted by~each one of said body-side transceiver devices, no information is transmitted by the other of said body-side transceiver portions, each of said plurality of wheel-side devices including an answering-information transmitting portion operable to transmit answering information corresponding to the information received from said body-side transceiver devices, said information processing device of said body-side device including a relative-position obtaining portion operable to obtain a position of each of said wheel-side devices relative to the body of the vehicle on the basis of said answering information as received from said answering-information transmitting portion. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A vehicle-state obtaining apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of wheel-side devices provided on a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, respectively, each of said wheel-side devices including at least one sensor to detect a state of a corresponding one of said wheels, said each wheel-side device being operable to transmit wheel information including the state of said corresponding wheel detected by said at least one sensor; and
a body-side device provided on a body of the vehicle and including an information processing device operable to obtain the states of said plurality of wheels on the basis of said wheel information transmitted by said plurality of wheel-side devices, wherein each of said plurality of wheel-side devices includes a positional-information obtaining portion operable to obtain positional information relating to a position of a corresponding one of said plurality of wheels in a coordinate system common to all of said plurality of wheels, and a positional-information transmitting portion operable to transmit said positional information obtained by said positional-information obtaining portion. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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