Method of checking the pressure of an aircraft tire
First Claim
1. A method of checking the pressure of a tire of an aircraft, the method comprising:
- taking a pressure reading from the tire with a pressure sensor;
transmitting the pressure reading from the pressure sensor to a hand-held device via a wireless connection; and
at the hand-held device;
receiving the pressure reading from the pressure sensor via the wireless connection;
obtaining an aircraft ID which uniquely identifies the aircraft;
obtaining a tire ID;
obtaining a reference pressure level associated with the aircraft ID and the tire ID;
comparing either the pressure reading, or an adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, with the reference pressure level; and
displaying a warning if the pressure reading, or the adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, is below the reference pressure level,wherein the aircraft ID is obtained at the hand-held device by receiving the aircraft ID from the pressure sensor via the wireless connection,wherein an another aircraft ID is obtained at the hand-held device from a user interface; and
the method further comprises checking that that aircraft ID received from the pressure sensor via the wireless connection matches the another aircraft ID received from the user interface.
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Abstract
A method of checking the pressure of a tire of an aircraft. A pressure reading is taken from the tire with a pressure sensor and wirelessly transmitted to a hand-held device. The hand-held device receives the pressure reading, an aircraft ID which uniquely identifies the aircraft, and a tire ID. The device then retrieves from a memory a reference pressure level associated in the memory with the aircraft ID and the tire ID; compares either the pressure reading, or an adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, with the reference pressure level; and displays a warning if the pressure reading, or the adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, is below the reference pressure level.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of checking the pressure of a tire of an aircraft, the method comprising:
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taking a pressure reading from the tire with a pressure sensor; transmitting the pressure reading from the pressure sensor to a hand-held device via a wireless connection; and at the hand-held device;
receiving the pressure reading from the pressure sensor via the wireless connection;
obtaining an aircraft ID which uniquely identifies the aircraft;
obtaining a tire ID;
obtaining a reference pressure level associated with the aircraft ID and the tire ID;
comparing either the pressure reading, or an adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, with the reference pressure level; and
displaying a warning if the pressure reading, or the adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, is below the reference pressure level,wherein the aircraft ID is obtained at the hand-held device by receiving the aircraft ID from the pressure sensor via the wireless connection, wherein an another aircraft ID is obtained at the hand-held device from a user interface; and the method further comprises checking that that aircraft ID received from the pressure sensor via the wireless connection matches the another aircraft ID received from the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A hand-held device for checking the pressure of a tire of an aircraft, the device comprising:
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a receiver for receiving a pressure reading and an aircraft ID which uniquely identifies the aircraft, wherein both the pressure reading and the aircraft ID are received from a tire pressure sensor via a wireless connection; the receiver is also for receiving another aircraft ID from a user interface; a display; and a processor programmed to;
check that the aircraft ID from the tire pressure sensor matches the another aircraft ID from the user interface;
compare the pressure reading, or an adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, with a reference pressure level, cause the display to present a warning if the pressure reading, or the adjusted pressure based on the pressure reading, is below the reference pressure level,wherein the reference pressure level is associated with the aircraft ID and a tire ID. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of checking the pressure of a tire of an aircraft, the method comprising:
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measuring a pressure in the tire with a pressure sensor and transmitting wirelessly the measured pressure to a hand-held device; receiving the measured pressure by a hand-held computing device via the wireless transmission; receiving by the hand-held computer device and from the pressure sensor an aircraft identifier which uniquely identifies the aircraft attached to the tire; receiving by the hand-held computer device and via a user interface another aircraft identifier; checking, by the hand-held computer device, that the aircraft identifier received from the pressure sensor and the another aircraft identifier received via the user interface match; receiving by the hand-held computer device a tire identifier which uniquely identifies the tire associated with the measured pressure; the hand-held computer device determines or obtains a reference pressure corresponding to the aircraft associated with the aircraft identifier and corresponding to the tire associated with the tire identifier; determine whether the reference pressure and the measured pressure indicate a low pressure condition in the tire, wherein the determination is performed automatically by the hand-held computer device, and display automatically an alert on the hand-held computer device if the determination is that the low pressure condition exists in the tire. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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