INTEGRATED READ STATION FOR A WHEEL-MOUNTED VEHICLE

• US 20100090819A1
• Filed: 10/13/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Original Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Inventors: Parsons, Anthony William, Leltieri, Joseph Carmine, Benedict, Robert Leon, Lionetti, Robert Edward
• Granted Patent: US 7,969,293 B2
• 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: B60C 23/0479 Communicating with external units being not part of the vehicle, e.g. tools for diagnostic, mobile phones, electronic keys or service stations
• 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 read station and method for a vehicle includes a support pad for admitting and exiting a vehicle onto an upper pad surface; two or more data-receiving systems, one or both of such systems receiving a data transmission from a vehicle situated on the read station pad surface. The data-receiving systems include an identification-data transmission system and a monitored parameter-data transmission system. One or more of the read station data-receiving systems may be configured to effect data transmission from the vehicle as the vehicle moves across the support pad. The information-data transmission system couples a vehicle wheel unit based RFID tag with an electric field established by one or more system antennae disposed on the support pad. The monitored parameter-data communication system includes one or more wheel-unit mounted monitoring device(s) transmitting data to one or more receivers disposed within the read station and an initiator sub-system that transmits a signal from pad based antenna(s) to initiate a data transmission sequence.

Claims

12-1. The read station of claim 1, wherein the identification-data transmission system and the monitored parameter-data transmission system each comprise at least one pad-mounted antenna.

16. A method for transmitting data from a vehicle supported by at least one wheel unit, comprising:

moving the vehicle to an upper pad surface of a support pad;

transmitting identification-data from the vehicle through a pad-based identification-data transmission system;

transmitting monitored parameter-data from the vehicle through a pad-based monitored parameter-data transmission system;

removing the vehicle from the upper pad surface.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

moving the vehicle over the upper pad surface along a read path that operationally aligns at least one data transmitting device mounted to a wheel unit of the vehicle over a pad-mounted antenna.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

transmitting identification-data through to the pad-mounted antenna as the vehicle moves over the pad-mounted antenna along the read path.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

transmitting identification-data as the vehicle moves over the upper pad surface along a read path.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

transmitting monitored parameter-data as the vehicle moves over the upper pad surface along a read path.