Tire Monitoring System Without Battery

• US 20100156618A1
• Filed: 12/17/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jiann-Huoy Huang
• Original Assignee: Jiann-Huoy Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Jiann-Huoy
• Application Number:
  US12/640,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20100156618A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/442
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/041 Means for supplying power to the signal- transmitting means on the wheel

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tire monitoring system without battery, which is firmly set on the wheel rim or in the tire to monitor the status of the tire. The present invention includes a tire status sensor and a generator. The former is set on the wheel rim or the gas nozzle, and the latter is firmly set on the wheel rim. The generator provides the energy to make the tire status sensor monitor the status of the tire.

Claims

1. A tire monitoring system without battery, set on a wheel rim of a tire or in a tire, the tire monitoring system without battery comprising:

a tire status sensor, set in the tire, used for measuring a status in the tire; and

a generator, firmly set on the wheel rim or a wheel cover, and electrically connected to the tire status sensor.

2. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tire status sensor is set on a gas nozzle of the tire.

3. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein the generator is an alternating current (AC) generator or a direct current (DC) generator.

4. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1 comprising two or more generators.

5. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein a stator of the generator is composed of an eccentric shaft structure.

6. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein a stator of the generator is firmly mounted to a weight.

7. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein a stator of the generator is composed of an eccentric shaft structure and is firmly mounted to a weight.

8. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tire status sensor comprises at least one sensing element, a micro-controlling unit and a data signal transmitter, where the at least one sensing element is capable of sensing the pressure, temperature, humidity or contents of different gases in the tire, and transmitting signals to the micro-controlling unit, the micro-controlling unit is capable of performing processes to the signals from the sensing element, and the data signal transmitter is capable of transmitting the signals to a data signal receiver.

9. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 8, wherein the micro-controlling unit and the data signal transmitter of the tire status sensor are implemented as two separate circuit modules.

10. The tire monitoring system without battery as claimed in claim 8, wherein the micro-controlling unit and the data signal transmitter of the tire status sensor are implemented as one combined circuit module.