Method and system for determination of a wheel position of wheels on a vehicle

• US 7,866,206 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2006
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Global Dynamix AG
• Original Assignee: Global Dynamix AG
• Inventors: Achterholt, Rainer
• Primary Examiner(s): Caputo; Lisa M
• Assistant Examiner(s): JENKINS, JERMAINE L
• Application Number:
  US11/916,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20080196492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 73/146.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0416 allocating a corresponding wheel position on vehicle, e.g. front/left or rear/right

Abstract

Method and system for determination of wheel position of wheels on vehicles with which Coriolis forces (Chl, Chr, Cvl, Cvr) active for the wheels (Rhl, Rhr, Rvl, Rvr) of a vehicle are determined, the Coriolis forces (Chl, Chr, Cvl, Cvr) determined for the wheels (Rhl, Rhr, Rvl, Rvr) are compared with each other and the wheel positions of the wheels (Rhl, Rhr, Rvl, Rvr) of the vehicle are determined by means of the comparison.

Claims

1. Method for determination of wheel position of wheels on a vehicle comprising the following steps:

determining the Coriolis forces active for wheels of said vehicle,

comparing the Coriolis forces determined for the wheels with each other,

determining wheel position of the wheels on the vehicle by means of the comparison,

determining the Coriolis forces active for the vehicle, and

comparing the Coriolis forces determined for the wheels with each other using Coriolis forces determined for the vehicle as reference quantity.

2. Method according to claim 1 comprising the following additional step:

determining the Coriolis forces active for the vehicle so that the signals indicating the active Coriolis forces are produced whose signs differ for curves in different directions.

3. Method according to claim 1 comprising the following additional step:

determining the wheels arranged on one side of the vehicle and the wheels arranged on the other side of the vehicle by comparison of the signs of signals indicating the Coriolis forces active for wheels of the vehicle and the signs of signals indicating the Coriolis forces active for the vehicle.

4. System for determination of wheel position of wheels on a vehicle comprising:

a control with a receiving device (An),

wheel units (REvl, REvr, REhl, REhr) each of which are provided for one wheel of a vehicle and include

a wheel sensor arrangement to record Coriolis forces active for the corresponding wheel and to produce signals indicating the determined Coriolis forces, and

a transmission device to transmit signals of the wheel sensor arrangement to the receiving device (An) of the control, and

a central unit (ZE) which includes;

a central sensor arrangement to record Coriolis forces active for the vehicle and to produce signals indicating the determined Coriolis forces, and

a central transmission device to transmit signals of the central sensor arrangement to the receiving device of the control, in which

the control is set up to compare the Coriolis forces determined for the wheels based on the transmitted signals and to determine the wheel position of the wheels on the vehicle by means of the comparison, as well as to compare the Coriolis forces determined for the wheels with each other using the Coriolis forces determined for the vehicle as reference quantity.

5. System according to claim 4 wherein:

the central unit (ZE) is laid out to determine the Coriolis forces active for the vehicle so that the signals indicating the active Coriolis forces are produced whose signs differ for curves in different directions.

6. System according to claim 4 wherein:

the control is laid out to determine the wheels arranged on one side of the vehicle and the wheels arranged on the other side of the vehicle by comparison with the signs of the signals indicating Coriolis forces active for the wheels and the signs of the signals indicating Coriolis forces active for the vehicle.

7. System according to claim 4 wherein:

the control is laid out to determine the wheels for which essentially the same Coriolis forces were determined and whose Coriolis forces are smaller in comparison with the Coriolis forces of the other wheels as the rear wheels of the vehicle.

8. System according to claim 7 wherein:

the control is laid out to determine the wheels whose Coriolis forces are larger in comparison with the Coriolis forces of the rear wheels as the front wheels of the vehicle.

9. System according to claim 8 for use in a vehicle whose front wheels have a positive camber, wherein:

the control is laid out to determine the front wheel whose Coriolis forces are smaller in comparison with the Coriolis forces of the other front wheel as the inside front wheel of the vehicle.

10. System according to claim 8 for use in a vehicle whose front wheels have a negative camber, wherein:

the control is laid out to determine the front wheel whose Coriolis forces are greater in comparison with the Coriolis forces of the other front wheel as the inside front wheel of the vehicle.