Tire inflation pressure detecting device for vehicle

• US 20050109094A1
• Filed: 11/23/2004
• Published: 05/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Nakao, Tsutomu, Katsumata, Kenichi, Umegaki, Katsuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,140,243 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/146
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0416 allocating a corresponding wheel position on vehicle, e.g. front/left or rear/right
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0462 Structure of transmission protocol
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0464 to avoid signal interference

Abstract

A tire inflation pressure detecting device includes sensors provided in respective tires of a vehicle to detect various kinds of measured data involving a tire inflation pressure, transmitters for transmitting the measured data and a receiver for receiving the measured data transmitted from the transmitters. In operation, each of the transmitters of the tires transmits the measured data plural times at certain transmitting intervals in a predetermined cycle. Among the transmitters, the respective transmitting intervals are different from each other.

Claims

1. A tire inflation pressure detecting device for detecting tire inflation pressure of a vehicle, comprising:

tire inflation pressure sensors respectively arranged in a plurality of tires of the vehicle, for detecting respective tire inflation pressures;

transmitting units arranged in the tires respectively and in the vicinity of the tire inflation pressure sensors, for transmitting pressure data detected by the tire inflation pressure sensors; and

a receiving unit for receiving the pressure data transmitted by the transmitting units, wherein

the transmitting units are configured to transmit the pressure data plural times at identical transmitting intervals at every predetermined cycle, the transmitting intervals being different from each other among the transmitting units, and

the receiving unit is configured to recognize the transmitting intervals of the pressure data transmitted from the transmitting units thereby identifying the transmitting units being as senders of the pressure data.

2. The tire inflation pressure detecting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined cycle is established to be an identical time to each other among the transmitting units and the number of the plural times is established to be an identical number to each other among the transmitting units.

3. The tire inflation pressure detecting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmitting units are configured to enable the respective transmitting intervals of the respective pressure data transmitted from the transmitting units to be changed.

4. The tire inflation pressure detecting device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the respective transmitting intervals of the pressure data transmitted from the transmitting units are changed by outside trigger signals that the transmitting units receive.

5. The tire inflation pressure detecting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an antenna arranged in the vicinity of the receiving unit, for receiving the respective pressure data transmitted from the transmitting units.

6. The tire inflation pressure detecting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising antennas arranged in the vicinity of the transmitting units, for receiving the respective pressure data transmitted from the transmitting units respectively, wherein the antennas are connected to the receiver via coaxial cables.

7. The tire inflation pressure detecting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a display unit connected to the receiving unit in the vehicle, for displaying the pressure data to a passenger in the vehicle.