Method for compensating temperature in a tire pressure monitoring system

• US 7,111,507 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2003
• Issued: 09/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Köbe, Andreas, Fennel, Helmut, Griesser, Martin, Edling, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Lefkowitz, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): JENKINS, JERMAINE L
• Application Number:
  US10/505,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20050162263A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,306 Days
• Field of Search: 73146-1468, 73700-756, 374/45, 374/143
• US Class Current: 73/146.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0408 transmitting the signals by non-mechanical means from the wheel or tyre to a vehicle body mounted receiver

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for compensating temperature in a system for tire pressure monitoring which is especially implemented by detecting a tire pressure and/or by detecting a tire pressure loss. The method is especially characterized in that the temperature is compensated by determining the gas temperature in the tire by way of at least two items of temperature information and by taking the determined temperature as a basis for said tire inflation monitoring. One significant advantage of this method involves that externally active temperature changes, such as a heat-emitting brake disc causing the wheel rim of the tire and, hence, also a temperature sensor arranged thereat to be heated more intensely than the gas in the tire, do not lead to an indication error with respect to the tire pressure (or a spurious alarm).

Claims

1. Method for compensating temperature in a system for tire pressure monitoring, comprising:

determining a compensated gas temperature in the tire by way of at least two items of temperature information; and

utilizing the determined compensated gas temperature to determine a tire pressure value for use in tire pressure monitoring.

2. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein a temperature sensor at or in the wheel rim of the tire is made the basis for at least one item of temperature information.

3. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein a temperature sensor in the engine compartment of the vehicle is made the basis for at least one item of temperature information.

4. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein a sensor for an outside or ambient temperature of the tire is made the basis for at least one item of temperature information.

5. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein a calculated temperature model is made the basis for at least one item of temperature information.

6. Method as claimed in claim 5,

wherein the temperature model is a temperature model of the tire.

7. Method as claimed in claim 5,

wherein the temperature model is a temperature model of a brake disc at the tire.

8. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the pressure value is determined by means of a pressure sensor arranged in the tire.

9. Method for compensating temperature in a system for tire pressure monitoring, comprising:

determining a compensated gas temperature in the tire by way of at least two items of temperature information; and

utilizing the determined compensated gas temperature to determine a tire pressure value for use in tire pressure monitoring,

wherein the basis for at least one item of temperature information is selected from the group consisting of a temperature sensor at a brake disc;

a temperature sensor in the engine compartment;

a sensor for an outside or ambient temperature; and

a calculated temperature model.

10. Method for compensating temperature in a system for tire pressure monitoring, comprising:

determining a compensated gas temperature in the tire by way of at least two items of temperature information; and

utilizing the determined compensated gas temperature to determine a tire pressure value for use in tire pressure monitoring,

wherein the pressure value is determined by way of the rolling circumference or a rotational speed information of the tire.

11. Method for compensating temperature in a system for tire pressure monitoring, comprising:

determining a compensated gas temperature in the tire by way of at least two items of temperature information; and

utilizing the determined compensated gas temperature to determine a tire pressure value for use in tire pressure monitoring,

wherein temperature compensation is discontinued when a rate of change of one of the items of temperature information is above a given value.