SETTING METHOD, A SENSOR AND A SENSOR SETTER FOR A TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM IN A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20130226403A1
• Filed: 02/26/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hamaton Automotive Technology Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hangzhou Hamaton Tyre Valves Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: ZHANG, Jianer
• Application Number:
  US13/777,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20130226403A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0471 System initialisation, e.g. upload or calibration of operating parameters
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/02 Tyres

Abstract

A method for setting a sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle, includes storing a plurality of encoding procedures is stored the sensor. By sending instructions to the sensor by the setter, all other encoding procedures except the required encoding procedures from a plurality of encoding procedures stored in advance in the sensor are processed, neither able to be encoded nor to be invoked for encoding. Furthermore, during application, data encoded by an encoding procedure is required to be sent out, thus not only solving the problem characterized by large data processing and large power consumption, but also preventing the sensor from being counterfeited by lawbreakers easily.

Claims

1. A method for setting a sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle, the method comprising:

providing the sensor in which a plurality of encoding procedures is stored in advance;

providing a sensor setter in which encoding procedure processing instruction sent to the sensor is stored;

sending encoding procedure processing instruction to the sensor by wireless or wired means by the setter once or more than once; and

the sensor receiving the encoding procedure processing instruction, on the basis of which, all other encoding procedures except the required encoding procedure are processed once for all or processed one by one, in this way, the processed encoding procedures are subject to deletion or failure of encoding or failure of invoking for encoding.

2. The method for setting a sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the encoding procedure processing instruction is a program deletion instruction, or a program modification instruction or an encoding procedure selection instruction.

3. The method for setting a sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the setter sends the encoding procedure processing instruction integrally to the sensor by multiple match codes, namely by the way of sending a piece of program bytes.

4. The method for setting a sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein an encoding procedure lock-in instruction is stored in the setter, and

wherein the method further comprises:

before or after or at the same time of sending the encoding procedure processing instruction, the setter sends the encoding procedure lock-in instruction to the sensor by wireless or wired means;

after receiving the encoding procedure lock-in instruction and before processing other encoding procedures except the required encoding procedure, the sensor locks the required encoding procedure.

11. The method for setting a sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the sensor locks the required encoding procedure by responding to an induction signal.

5. A sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a data processing unit;

an electrically erasable memory cell;

a sensor unit, at least comprising a pressure sensor; and

a data transmission unit,

wherein the data processing unit is internally provided with an electrically erasable encoding procedure memory module in which a plurality of encoding procedures are stored, wherein the data processing unit is also provided with an encoding procedure processing module which is used for processing unwanted encoding procedures in the encoding procedure memory module on the basis of encoding procedure processing instruction such that the unwanted encoding procedures are subject to deletion or failure of encoding or failure of invoking for encoding, and

wherein the unwanted encoding procedures are encoding procedures except the required encoding procedures.

6. The sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the data processing unit is also internally provided with an encoding procedure lock-in module which is used for, on the basis of the encoding procedure lock-in instruction or the responsive induction signal, locking the required encoding procedures so that it is impossible to delete or modify the required encoding procedures.

7. The sensor for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the data transmission unit comprises a wireless data transmission module or a wired data transmission module additionally.

8. A sensor setter for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a data processing unit;

a data input unit; and

a data transmission unit,

wherein the setter is provided with an encoding procedure processing instruction memory module for invoking the data processing unit, the encoding procedure processing instruction is stored in the encoding procedure processing instruction memory module, and

wherein the data transmission unit, on the basis of the instruction from the data processing unit, outward transmits the encoding procedure processing instruction stored in the encoding procedure processing instruction memory module.

9. The sensor setter for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 8, wherein the setter is provided with an encoding procedure lock-in instruction memory module for invoking the data processing unit, the encoding procedure lock-in instruction is stored in the encoding procedure lock-in instruction memory module, and

wherein the data transmission unit, on the basis of the instruction from the data processing unit, outward transmits the encoding procedure lock-in instruction stored in the encoding procedure lock-in instruction memory module.

10. The sensor setter for a tire pressure monitoring system in a motor vehicle according to claim 8, wherein the data transmission unit comprises a wireless data transmission module or a wired data transmission module additionally.