Receiving device and tire pressure monitoring system

• US 7,342,519 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2006
• Issued: 03/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Hiroshi, Miura, Yukio, Honda, Noriyuki, Teramachi, Ryo
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY
• Application Number:
  US11/418,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20060256691A1
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 341/70, 341/69, 341/71, 340/870.1, 375/361, 375/358
• US Class Current: 341/70
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 5/08 Code representation by pulse width

Abstract

A receiving device is provided. A pulse width is measured, it is selected whether a determination process is performed for a pulse width having the length of one bit in accordance with the measured value of the pulse width or a pulse width having the length of ½ bit, it is discriminated whether a current pulse edge is a pulse edge at the center of the bit or a pulse edge at the boundary between bits while considering the bit data right before the determined bit, and when it is determined that the current pulse edge is the pulse edge at the center of the bit, the bit data is determined by the rising edge or the falling edge of the pulse edge.

Claims

1. A tire pressure monitoring system, comprising:

a receiving device comprising;

a receiving unit that receives encoded data encoded with a Manchester code in which a high pulse and a low pulse are combined with each other so as to represent a bit;

a measuring unit that measures a pulse width of the encoded data;

a edge determining unit that determines a rising edge or a falling edge of a pulse end;

a logical value determining unit that determines a bit data of the encoded data on the basis of the pulse width, the rising edge or falling edge of the pulse end, and a bit data of a bit before the determined bit;

a transmitting device comprising;

an encoding unit that encodes data indicating a tire pressure with a Manchester code, in which a high pulse and a low pulse are combined with each other so as to represent a bit, so as to obtain the encoded data;

a tuner circuit that receives an electric wave transmitted from the transmitting device, and a control unit that decodes the encoded data received by the tuner circuit and transmits the decoded tire pressure data to the display;

wherein the control unit includes an interruption control unit that controls the interruption of the measurement of a pulse width of the data encoded with the Manchester code, a measuring unit, a counter that measures a pulse width of the encoded data, an arithmetic unit that performs the arithmetic for determining a bit data of the encoded data, an ROM that stores control program, an RAM that stores various data so as to be rewritten, and a communication control unit that performs the control when the decoded tire pressure data is transmitted to the display.

2. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting device is mounted in a tire and the receiving device is mounted in a vehicle body.

3. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the data decoded by the receiving device is transmitted to a display that is disposed in the vehicle body, when the decoded data is required.

4. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting device includes a sensor that detects a tire pressure, a control unit that encodes data indicating the tire pressure detected by the sensor with the Manchester code, and an RF circuit that modulates a carrier wave with the encoded data and transmits it to the receiving device.

5. The tire pressure monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the arithmetic unit of the control unit has a storing unit that stores pulse width data or pulse edge data.