Abnormality Judging Device

• US 20080012698A1
• Filed: 10/27/2005
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Hiroyuki, Murakami, Kazutomo, Kobayashi, Katsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/666,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20080012698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/442
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/062 Frequency spectrum analysis of wheel speed signals, e.g. using Fourier transformation
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/065 by monitoring vibrations in tyres or suspensions B60C23/062 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/02 Tyres

Abstract

A detecting unit 210 detects a physical quantity generated from a revolving tire for each tire. An adaptive digital filter 222 extracts a specific signal for each tire from signals corresponding to the physical quantity detected by the detecting unit 210. A judging unit 230 judges that the tire is abnormal when a difference value between two signals extracted by the digital filter 222 exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Claims

1. An abnormality judging device comprising:

detecting means which detects a physical quantity generated from a revolving tire;

variable sampling means which samples a signal corresponding to the physical quantity detected by the detecting means, at a cycle corresponding to the revolving speed of the tire;

FFT processing means which converts a signal along the time axis, sampled by the variable sampling means, into a signal along the frequency axis; and

judging means which judges that the tire is in an abnormal state in a case where the signal converted by the FFT processing means exceeds a predetermined threshold.

2. The abnormality judging device according to claim 1, further comprising an adaptive digital filter which extracts a specific signal from the signals sampled by the variable sampling means, and wherein the FFT processing means converts the signal along the time axis extracted by the adaptive digital filter, into the signal along the frequency axis.

3. The abnormality judging device comprising:

detecting means which detects a physical quantity generated from the revolving tire;

variable sampling means which samples a signal corresponding to the physical quantity detected by the detecting means, at a cycle corresponding to a revolving speed of the tire;

specific order component extracting means which extracts signals of a plurality of specific order components from signals sampled by the variable sampling means; and

judging means which judges that the tire is in an abnormal state when the signals extracted by the specific order component extracting means exceed a predetermined threshold.

4. The abnormality judging device according to claim 3, further comprising an adaptive digital filter which extracts a specific signal from the signals sampled by the variable sampling means, and wherein the specific order component extracting means extracts the signals of the plurality of specific order components from the signals extracted by the adaptive digital filter.

5. An abnormality judging device comprising:

detecting means which detects a physical quantity generated from a revolving tire;

variable sampling means which samples a signal corresponding to the physical quantity detected by the detecting means, at a cycle corresponding to the revolving speed of the tire;

adding means which adds up the signals per unit of revolutions sampled by the variable sampling means, sequentially for each unit of revolutions; and

judging means which judges that the tire is in an abnormal state when the signals added up by the adding means exceed a predetermined threshold.

6. The abnormality judging device according to claim 5, further comprising an adaptive digital filter which extracts a specific signal from the signals sampled by the variable sampling means, and wherein the adding means adds up the signals per unit of revolutions extracted by the adaptive digital filter sequentially for each unit of revolutions.

7. An abnormality judging device comprising:

detecting means which detects a physical quantity generated from a revolving tire;

specific order component extracting means which extracts signals of a plurality of specific order components corresponding to a revolving speed of the tire, from signals corresponding to the physical quantity detected by the detecting means; and

judging means which judges that the tire is in an abnormal state when the signals extracted by the specific order component extracting means exceed a predetermined threshold.

8. An abnormality judging device comprising:

detecting means which detects a physical quantity generated from a revolving tire, for each of the tires;

extracting means for extracting a specific signal from signals corresponding to the physical quantity detected by the detecting means, for each of the tires; and

judging means for judging that the tire is abnormal when a difference value between two signals extracted by the extracting means exceeds a predetermined threshold.

9. The abnormality judging device according to claim 8, wherein the extracting means is an adaptive digital filter.

10. The abnormality judging device according to claim 8, wherein the judging means judges that the tire is abnormal in a case where any one of the difference value between signals corresponding respectively to two tires rotatably and pivotally supported on the same shaft and the difference value between a signal corresponding to a front tire and a signal corresponding to a rear tire provided in a traveling direction of the front tire, out of the signals extracted by the extracting means, exceeds the predetermined threshold.

11. The abnormality judging device according to claim 10, wherein the judging means judges that the tire is abnormal in a case where the difference value between the signals corresponding respectively to the two tires rotatably and pivotally supported on the same shaft, out of the signals extracted by the extracting means, exceeds the predetermined threshold at the time when a vehicle is running at a constant speed or is in the course of acceleration or deceleration.

12. The abnormality judging device according to claim 8, wherein the judging means judges that the tire is abnormal in a case where the difference value between the signal corresponding to a front tire and the signal corresponding to a rear tire provided in the traveling direction of the front tire, out of the signals extracted by the extracting means, exceeds the predetermined threshold at the time when a vehicle is running at a constant speed or is turning.

13. The abnormality judging device according to claim 8, wherein the judging means judges that the tire is in the abnormal state when the difference value between the signal corresponding to a front tire and the signal corresponding to a rear tire provided in a diagonal direction to the front tire out of the signals extracted by the extracting means exceeds the predetermined threshold when a vehicle is running normally.

14. The abnormality judging device according to claim 8, wherein the threshold is equal to a difference value of each of the signals corresponding to respective tires which are normal.

15. The abnormality judging device according to claim 12, wherein, in a case where there is a difference between the average value of the signals corresponding to the front tire and the average value of the signals corresponding to the rear tire out of the signals extracted by the extracting means, the judging means judges that the tire is abnormal at the time when the difference value between the signal corresponding to the front tire and the signal corresponding to the rear tire exceeds the predetermined threshold after any one of the average values is aligned with the other average value.

16. The abnormality judging device according to claim 8, wherein the judging means judges that the tire is abnormal when the difference value between the two smallest signals out of the signals extracted by the extracting means exceeds the predetermined threshold.