Method of processing data in a vehicle tire monitoring system

• US 7,594,433 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2007
• Issued: 09/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique SA (Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA)
• Original Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique SA (Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA)
• Inventors: Bondu, Lucien
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen; Andre J
• Assistant Examiner(s): JENKINS, JERMAINE L
• Application Number:
  US11/649,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20070191996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: 73146-1468, 340442-447
• US Class Current: 73/146.5
• 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

Method of processing data in a vehicle tire monitoring system. For a first given period of time, referred to as the reference period, a device calculates, for each class of temperature supplied, the corresponding mean pressure in a given tire. Then, for at least a second given period of time, the device calculates, for each class of temperature supplied, the corresponding mean pressure and the difference between this mean pressure and the reference mean pressure, and the device calculates the mean value of these differences.

Claims

1. A method of processing data from a vehicle tire monitoring system, the system regularly supplying for at least one tire values of the pressure and temperature of the fluid in the internal cavity of the said tire, in which, for a given tire:

for a first given period of time, referred to as the reference period;

a device divides up, by class of temperature [T]_i, all the tire pressure and temperature values of the tire supplied during the reference period; and

for each class of temperature [T]_i, said device calculates the mean pressure ( p_i,r) of the corresponding pressure values;

for at least a second given period of time, referred to as period j;

said device divides up by class of temperature [T]_i all the tire pressure and temperature values supplied during the period of time j;

for each class of temperature, said device calculates the mean pressure ( p_i,j) of the corresponding pressure values;

for each class of temperature, said device calculates the difference between the mean pressure and the reference mean pressure (Δ

p_i,j= p_i,j−

p_i,r); and

said device calculates the mean value of the differences between the mean pressures and the mean reference pressures Δ

p_j.

2. The method according to claim 1, in which, if a given temperature class [T]_i is empty for the rest of this period while the class [T]_i is not empty for the periods j and k, for the period k, subsequent to said period j, wherein said device:

calculates the mean pressure ( p_i,k) of the pressure values of the class [T]_i and of the period k;

calculates the difference between the mean pressure and the mean pressure of the class [T]_i of the period j (Δ

p_i,k= p_i,k−

p_i,j);

corrects the mean pressure difference of the temperature class [T]_i by adding the mean value of the differences between the mean pressures and the reference mean pressures Δ

p_j obtained for the period j, that is to say Δ

p_i,k^c= p_i,k−

p_i,j+ Δ

p_j; and

said device calculates the mean value of the differences and corrected differences between the mean pressures and the reference mean pressures Δ

p_k.

3. The method according to claim 1, in which said device calculates the mean value of the pressure differences Δ

p_j for n successive periods of time, taking the oldest period of time as the reference period, and triggers an alarm when the change over time in the mean values of the pressure differences satisfies a given relationship.

4. The method according to claim 3, in which said device triggers an alarm when the variation over time of the mean values of the pressure differences exceeds, in absolute value, a given threshold S.

5. The method according to claim 4, in which the threshold S is between 3% and 10% of the nominal pressure value.

6. The method according to claim 3, in which said device calculates several series of mean values of pressure differences for periods of time of different durations in order to cover all the usual deflation ranges of the vehicle tires.

7. The method according to claim 6, in which the duration of the periods of time covers around one hour to several days.

8. The method according to claim 1, in which said device, for a given period of time, takes into account the temperature and pressure values supplied by the system between the maximum temperature supplied and a given lower temperature.

9. The method according to claim 8, in which the lower temperature is equal to the maximum temperature reduced by 20°

C.

10. The method according to claim 1, in which, for each period of time, the device performs a statistical analysis of the temperature and pressure data supplied and takes the period of time into account only if the scatter in the measurements is below a given threshold.

11. The method of according to claim 10, in which the statistical analysis is a linear regression.

12. The method according to claim 11, in which the period of time is not taken into account when the regression coefficient of the data is less than 0.7.

13. The method according to claim 1, in which, the vehicle being a construction vehicle, the period of time comprises one day.

14. A device for implementing the method according to claims 1, comprising:

a at least one access to the data to be processed;

at least one calculation unit, permitting classifications and calculations; and

instructions for use, enabling the method to be executed.

15. The device according to claim 14, as able to cooperate with a means of presenting the results.

16. A computer system comprising a device according to claim 1.

17. Software comprising code elements programmed for implementing the method according to claim 1, wherein the software is loaded into a computer system and executed by the computer system.

18. Software in the form of a product recorded on a medium that can be read by a computer system, comprising code elements programmed according to claim 17.