TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND VEHICULAR TIRE PRESSURE DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20120072071A1
• Filed: 05/14/2010
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Steelmate Co. Ltd
• Original Assignee: Steelmate Co. Ltd
• Inventors: Li, Zhitao
• Granted Patent: US 8,670,898 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0461 externally triggered, e.g. by wireless request signal, magnet or manual switch
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0472 to manually allocate ID codes or mounting positions, e.g. by service technicians
• 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

Abstract

A tire pressure monitoring system and vehicular tire pressure device thereof are disclosed. The device integrates a central monitor and signal match device of a conventional tire pressure monitoring system. The vehicular device is also combined with a power-getting interface physically. The vehicular device is also provided with a separate battery which may be rechargeable and be charged by the interface. The monitoring system and vehicular tire pressure device of the invention may be used more easily and is convenient in installation and testing and therefore, they may be accepted more easily by the user and get great commercial success.

Claims

1. A vehicular tire pressure device receiving from at least one sensor of a tire pressure monitoring system high frequency signals, comprising:

a power unit for supplying power to the tire pressure device independently through a battery or a power-getting interface from a car;

a control chip, which, when determining that the power unit supplies power by the battery, reads out from the high frequency signals information regarding correlation between a sensor and corresponding ID feature code and then stores the information under the control of an user manipulation; and

when determining that the power unit supplies the power by the power-getting interface, reads out from the from the high frequency signals tire pressure data and ID feature code, and then outputs the ID of a corresponding sensor and corresponding tire pressure data based on the correlation;

a low frequency wake-up unit powered only by the power unit, said low frequency wake-up unit sending inducing signals of low frequency under the control of the control chip, when in the signal match device working state so that the inducing signals are sensed by the sensor and then the high frequency signals are transmitted by the sensor;

a high frequency transceiver unit for receiving said high frequency signals under the control of the control chip; and

an I/O device for providing a man-machine interaction operation interface so as to receive user'"'"'s operation and providing warning information.

2. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein the voltage of the battery of the power unit is different from that of the power gotten from the power-getting interface;

and both the batter and power-getting interface supply power to the vehicular tire pressure device through a power control circuit.

3. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein the battery is rechargeable and is coupled with the power-getting interface via a charging circuit so as to supply power to the battery.

4. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein the battery is a dry battery.

5. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein the I/O device includes a touch-sensitive display.

6. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein the I/O device includes a button, a display and speaker all of which are electrically connected to the control chip.

7. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein the power-getting interface is located outside of the vehicular tire pressure device, and the other components of the vehicular tire pressure device are all assembled into a box.

8. The vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 7, wherein a pivotal connection construction is disposed between the power-getting interface and box.

9. A tire pressure monitoring system, comprising a plurality of sensors installed inside respective tires of a car, and further comprising a vehicular tire pressure device according to claim 1, wherein when the vehicular tire pressure device is powered independently by the battery and is not installed to a cigarette lighter of the car, the I/O device of the vehicular tire pressure device is operated by the user so that the low frequency wake-up circuit is triggered to transmit the inducing signals to an individual sensor;

next, the sensor transmits the high frequency signals;

the vehicular tire pressure device establishes correlation with the sensor based on the ID feature code contained in the high frequency signals and then the correlation data is stored;

when the vehicular tire pressure device is installed to the cigarette lighter and powered by the power-getting interface, the vehicular tire pressure device receives the high frequency signals from respective sensors through its high frequency transceiver unit; and

finally, the vehicular tire pressure device outputs through its I/O device the sensor data and corresponding tire pressure data based on tire pressure data and ID feature code included in the high frequency signals and by comparison with the correction data.

10. A tire pressure monitoring system, comprising a central monitor, a signal match device and at least a sensor, wherein the central monitor and signal match device are assembled with each other to form a vehicular tire pressure device, said vehicular tire pressure device being provided with a power-getting interface for supplying power to the central monitor when the interface is connected to a car cigarette lighter, said signal match device being provided with a battery to supply power to said the signal match device.

11. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the battery of the signal match device is rechargeable and electrically connected to the power-getting interface to charge the battery.

12. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the battery of the signal match device is a dry battery.

13. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein a pivotal connection construction is disposed between the power-getting interface and vehicular tire pressure device.