TIRE-MONITORING DEVICE

• US 20170050476A1
• Filed: 05/12/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gofull Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Gofull Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIU, CHI-KANG, SHEN, YUN-HUNG
• Application Number:
  US15/152,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20170050476A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0455 Transmission control of wireless signals
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0477 Evaluating waveform of pressure readings

Abstract

A tire-monitoring device is arranged on a tire and includes a tire pressure sensor and a temperature sensor respectively sense tire pressure and temperature and respectively generate a tire pressure signal and a temperature signal received by a controller. When the controller determines that the tire pressure value continuously varies for a preset period or determines that a rising variation of the temperature value is larger than a preset variation, the controller generates a transmission control signal received by a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter transmits the tire pressure signal and the temperature signal to an external device, so as to display the tire pressure value and the temperature value. The present invention directly observes that the vehicle has started according to the continual variation of the tire pressure value and the variation of the temperature value and notifies the transmitter that the transmitter transmits the signal.

Claims

1. A tire-monitoring device arranged on at least one tire of a vehicle, and said tire-monitoring device comprising:

a tire pressure sensor sensing a tire pressure value of said tire and generating a tire pressure signal according to said tire pressure value;

a temperature sensor sensing a temperature value of said tire and generating a temperature signal according to said temperature value;

a controller electrically connected with said tire pressure sensor and said temperature sensor to receive said tire pressure signal and said temperature signal, and when said controller determines that said tire pressure value of said tire continuously varies for a preset period according to said tire pressure signal or determines that a rising variation of said temperature value is larger than a preset variation according to said temperature signal, said controller generates a transmission control signal; and

a wireless transmitter electrically connected with said controller to receive said transmission control signal and wirelessly transmitting said tire pressure signal and said temperature signal to outside according to said transmission control signal.

2. The tire-monitoring device of claim 1, wherein after said controller determines that said tire pressure value of said tire stops continuously varying for said preset period, said controller stops generating said transmission control signal received by said wireless transmitter, whereby said wireless transmitter stops transmitting said tire pressure signal or reduces times of transmitting said tire pressure signal.

3. The tire-monitoring device of claim 2, wherein after said controller determines that said decreasing variation of said temperature value of said tire is larger than said preset variation, said controller stops generating said transmission control signal received by said wireless transmitter, whereby said wireless transmitter stops transmitting said temperature signal or reduces times of transmitting said temperature signal.

4. The tire-monitoring device of claim 2, further comprising a terminal having a display, and said terminal receives said tire pressure signal and said temperature signal, and said display displays said tire pressure value and said temperature value.

5. The tire-monitoring device of claim 4, wherein said terminal is a smart phone or a vehicular computer.

6. The tire-monitoring device of claim 1, wherein said wireless transmitter is a radio frequency transmitter or a bluetooth transmitter,

7. The tire-monitoring device of claim 4, further comprising a power provider electrically connected with said tire pressure sensor, said temperature sensor, said controller, said wireless transmitter and providing power to said tire pressure sensor, said temperature sensor, said controller, said wireless transmitter.

8. The tire-monitoring device of claim 7, further comprising a voltage sensor electrically connected with said power provider to measure remaining power of said power provider.

9. The tire-monitoring device of claim 1, wherein when said controller determines that said tire pressure value continuously varies for said preset period according to said tire pressure signal of said tire pressure sensor and determines that said rising variation of said temperature value is larger than said preset variation according to said temperature signal of said temperature sensor, said controller generates a delivery control signal received by said wireless transmitter whereby said wireless transmitter wirelessly transmits said tire pressure signal and said temperature signal to outside;

when said controller determines that said tire pressure value stops continuously varying for said preset period according to said tire pressure signal of said tire pressure sensor and determines that said decreasing variation of said temperature value is larger than said preset variation according to said temperature signal of said temperature sensor, said controller stops generating said delivery control signal received by said wireless transmitter whereby said wireless transmitter stops transmitting said tire pressure signal and said temperature signal or reduces times of transmitting said tire pressure signal and said temperature signal.