System and method for vehicle tire usage information

• US 20070222568A1
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Morar, John, Moskowitz, Paul
• Application Number:
  US11/384,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20070222568A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/447
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0408 transmitting the signals by non-mechanical means from the wheel or tyre to a vehicle body mounted receiver
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A method (and apparatus), includes communicating, by a reader in a vehicle, with a wireless device in a tire, the wireless device having a unique identification, receiving, by the reader, sensed usage information of the tire from the wireless device, and writing, by the reader, usage parameters to a memory of the wireless device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

communicating, by a reader in a vehicle, with a wireless device in a tire, said wireless device having a unique identification;

receiving, by said reader, sensed usage information of said tire from said wireless device; and

writing, by said reader, usage parameters to a memory of said wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

reading, by a second reader, usage parameters from the memory of said wireless device after said tire is removed from said vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating, by said reader, said identification and said usage parameters to a remote computing system.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

retrieving said identification and said usage parameters from said remote computing system.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

writing a time stamp with said usage parameters to create a usage history.

6. An apparatus, comprising:

a wireless device which is embeddable in an object;

means for communicating, in a vehicle, with said wireless device in said object, said wireless device having a unique identification;

means for receiving sensed usage information of said object from said wireless device; and

means for writing usage parameters to said wireless device.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising:

a second means for communicating for reading usage parameters from said wireless device after said object is removed from said vehicle.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said means for communicating communicates said identification and said usage parameters to a remote computing system.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

means for retrieving said identification and said usage parameters from said remote computing system; and

means for writing a time stamp with said usage parameters to create a usage history.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

a wireless device having a unique identification embedded in a tire;

a writable memory associated with said device; and

tire usage information contained within said memory

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said usage information comprises parameters that comprise at least one of mileage of the tire, a maximum speed of the tire, an inflation pressure during use, deformation of the tire, and temperature history for the tire.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said wireless device comprises a radio transponder and an accelerometer sensor.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said wireless device further comprises one of a pressure sensor, and a temperature sensor.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said wireless device comprises a radio transponder and a strain sensor.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

a wireless device having a unique identification embedded in an object;

a writable memory associated with said wireless device; and

object usage information contained within said memory.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said object comprises a tire.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said usage information comprises parameters that comprise at least one of mileage of the tire, a maximum speed of the tire, an inflation pressure during use, deformation of the tire, and temperature history for the tire.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said wireless device comprises a radio transponder and an accelerometer sensor.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein said wireless device further comprises one of a pressure sensor, and a temperature sensor.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said wireless device comprises a radio transponder and a strain sensor.