Tire condition display device

• US 20050156720A1
• Filed: 12/28/2004
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US11/023,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20050156720A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/442
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0401 characterised by the type of alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0408 transmitting the signals by non-mechanical means from the wheel or tyre to a vehicle body mounted receiver

Abstract

A tire condition display device is disclosed. The device comprises plural sensors for detecting tire condition, each of the sensors being mounted at a wheel of a vehicle and having a different identification sign at an observable place; a transmitter mounted at each wheel, for transmitting the tire condition information detected by the sensor and the identification sign; a user input unit for receiving corresponding relations between the identification signs and corresponding wheel locations in the vehicle; and a display unit for displaying the tire condition information and corresponding wheel locations, based on the received corresponding relations.

Claims

1. A tire condition display device comprising:

a plurality of sensors for detecting tire condition, each of the sensors being mounted at a wheel of a vehicle and having a different identification sign at an observable place;

a transmitter mounted at each wheel, for transmitting the tire condition information detected by the sensor and the identification sign information;

a user input unit for receiving corresponding relations between the identification signs and their corresponding wheel locations in the vehicle; and

a display unit for displaying the tire condition information and the corresponding wheel locations, based on the received corresponding relations.

2. The tire condition display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit shows the corresponding relations between the identification signs and the wheel locations, whereby a user can visually confirm the corresponding relations when inputting.

3. The tire condition display device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a determining unit for determining a tire abnormal condition based on the tire condition information;

wherein

the display unit displays the location of the tire determined to be abnormal.

4. The tire condition display device as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

a determining unit for determining a tire abnormal condition based on the tire condition information;

wherein

the display unit displays the location of the tire determined to be abnormal.

5. The tire condition display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the sensors is previously assigned a unique identification number and the identification signs and the identification numbers are related to each other.