Method and a system for determining the component of tyre-road noise in the total noise in the interior of a vehicle

• US 20060266120A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren Stuttgart
• Original Assignee: Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren Stuttgart
• Inventors: Helfer, Martin, Riegel, Matthias
• Application Number:
  US11/257,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20060266120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/587
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/007 Wheeled or endless-tracked vehicles G01M17/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/025 using infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic vibrations

Abstract

In order to provide a method for determining the component of noise which results from the rolling of at least one wheel of a vehicle on a roadway in the total noise in the interior of a vehicle with the aid of which method a noise component of the tyre-roadway noise within the total noise in the interior of a vehicle can be determined in a simple manner, it is proposed that the vehicle that is to be measured on which there is arranged at least one wheel and also at least one recording of the tyre rolling noise be made available, that the recording of the tyre rolling noise be reproduced in the vicinity of at least one wheel arranged on the vehicle being measured, and that the noise component that is to be determined be measured at at least one internal spatial point in the interior of the vehicle during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise. Furthermore, there is also proposed a system for determining the component of noise which results from the rolling of a wheel the vehicle on a roadway in the total noise in the interior of a vehicle.

Claims

1. A method of determining a noise component which results from the rolling of at least one wheel of a vehicle on a roadway, in the total noise in the interior of the vehicle, comprising the steps:

making available the vehicle being measured on which there is arranged at least one wheel,

making available at least one recording of the tyre rolling noise,

reproducing the recording of the tyre rolling noise in the vicinity of at least one wheel arranged on the vehicle being measured and

measuring the noise component that is to be determined at at least one internal spatial point in the interior of the vehicle during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise (86).

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the recording of the tyre rolling noise is produced by recording real or simulated rolling noises which occur during the real or simulated rolling of a real or simulated test wheel on a real or simulated roadway in the vicinity of the test wheel.

3. A method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that the recording of the tyre rolling noise is produced by recording rolling noises in dependence on the rolling speed of the test wheel on the roadway.

4. A method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that, for the purposes of rolling on the real roadway, the real test wheel is mounted in freely rotatable manner in a tyre noise measuring trailer and the tyre noise measuring trailer is moved on the roadway, whereby the test wheel is in contact with the roadway.

5. A method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that, for the production of the recording of the tyre rolling noise, at least one sound pressure sensor is used for measuring a prevailing sound pressure.

6. A method in accordance with claim 5, characterized in that, for the recording of the tyre rolling noise, at least one sound pressure sensor is arranged on an outer side of the test wheel.

7. A method in accordance with claim 5, characterized in that, for the recording of the tyre rolling noise, at least one sound pressure sensor is arranged in front of the test wheel.

8. A method in accordance with claim 5, characterized in that, for the recording of the tyre rolling noise, at least one sound pressure sensor is arranged behind the test wheel.

9. A method in accordance with claim 5, characterized in that a microphone is used as the sound pressure sensor.

10. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the recording of the tyre rolling noise that has been produced is stored on a storage medium.

11. A method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that the recording of the tyre rolling noise is produced in the form of a real or simulated test sound field data record, and in that the test sound field data record contains data for at least one spatial point of the test sound field in the vicinity of the test wheel rolling on a roadway for the purposes of describing the test sound field produced in the vicinity of the test wheel by the rolling of the test wheel on the roadway.

12. A method in accordance with claim 11, characterized in that the test sound field data record contains data for describing the sound pressure of the test sound field prevailing at the at least one spatial point of the test sound field.

13. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that a simulation sound field in the vicinity of the at least one wheel arranged on the vehicle being measured and an internal sound field in the interior of the vehicle are produced by the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise, and in that the noise component that is to be determined is determined by measuring the internal sound field at the at least one internal spatial point.

14. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the simulation sound field is produced by at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device which is arranged in the vicinity of the at least one wheel.

15. A method in accordance with claim 14, characterized in that at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device is arranged in such a manner that the sound produced during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is radiated outwardly from the at least one wheel in a direction transverse to the direction of travel.

16. A method in accordance with claim 14, characterized in that at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device is arranged in such a manner that the sound produced during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is radiated away from the at least one wheel in the direction of travel.

17. A method in accordance with claim 14, characterized in that at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device is arranged in such a manner that the sound produced during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is radiated away from the at least one wheel in a direction opposite to the direction of travel.

18. A method in accordance with claim 14, characterized in that three or four tyre rolling noise reproduction devices per wheel are used.

19. A method in accordance with claim 14, characterized in that a point-like emitter or a substantially point-like emitter is used as the tyre rolling noise reproduction device.

20. A method in accordance with claim 14, characterized in that a loudspeaker is used as the tyre rolling noise reproduction device.

21. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is recorded in the form of a recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise, and in that the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is calibrated in such a manner that the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise coincides with the recording of the tyre rolling noise.

22. A method in accordance with claim 21, characterized in that the calibration of the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise is carried out using a wheel, and in that the wheel is arranged on the vehicle for the calibration process.

23. A method in accordance with claim 21, characterized in that the calibration of the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise is carried out using a wheel, and in that the wheel is removed from the vehicle for the calibration process.

24. A method in accordance with claim 21, characterized in that the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise is produced in the form of a calibration sound field data record which, for the purposes of describing the simulation sound field, contains data for at least one spatial point of the simulation sound field in the vicinity of the wheel.

25. A method in accordance with claim 21, characterized in that, for the purposes of producing the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise, at least one simulation sound field sound pressure sensor is used for measuring a sound pressure prevailing at at least one spatial point of the simulation sound field in the simulation sound field.

26. A method in accordance with claim 24, characterized in that the at least one spatial point of the simulation sound field has the same spatial relationship relative to the wheel as does the at least one spatial point of the test sound field relative to the test wheel.

27. A method in accordance with claim 21, characterized in that the tyre rolling noise reproduction device is calibrated by altering the simulation sound field until the calibration sound field data record corresponds to the test sound field data record.

28. A method in accordance with claim 25, characterized in that the at least one simulation sound field sound pressure sensor is arranged in the same spatial relationship relative to the wheel as is the at least one sound pressure sensor relative to the test wheel.

29. A method in accordance with claim 25, characterized in that the at least one simulation sound field sound pressure sensor and the at least one sound pressure sensor are identical or of similar construction.

30. A method in accordance with claim 25, characterized in that three or four sound pressure sensors and three or four simulation sound field sound pressure sensors are used.

31. A method in accordance with claim 13, characterized in that an internal sound field data record is produced which contains data for the purposes of describing the internal sound field at the at least one internal spatial point.

32. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is carried out successively in the vicinity of all the wheels of the vehicle, in that an internal noise component is thereby determined individually for each wheel, and in that the noise component being determined is obtained by the addition of the internal noise components of the individual wheels.

33. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is carried out simultaneously in the vicinity of at least two wheels of the vehicle, in that an internal noise component is thereby determined for the at least two wheels together, and in that the noise component that is to be determined and which results from all the wheels is obtained by the addition of the internal noise components of the at least two wheels.

34. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the at least one internal spatial point corresponds to the position of the left ear of the front seat passenger or the position of the right ear of the driver.

35. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that a vehicle having four wheels is made available.

36. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that identical wheels are arranged on the vehicle.

37. A method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that a motor vehicle is used as the vehicle.

38. A method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that a multiplicity of different recordings of tyre rolling noise is produced for different combinations of test wheels and roadways.

39. A method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that the test wheel or a wheel of similar construction to the test wheel is used as the at least one wheel.

69. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that a method in accordance with any of the claims 1 to 39 is capable of being effected by this system.

40. A system for determining a noise component, which ensues from the rolling of a wheel of a vehicle on a roadway, in the total noise in the interior of the vehicle, comprising at least one recording of the tyre rolling noise, a tyre rolling noise reproduction device for reproducing the recording of the tyre rolling noise in the vicinity of at least one wheel arranged on the vehicle being measured, and a measuring device for measuring the noise component that is to be determined at at least one internal spatial point in the interior of the vehicle during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise.

41. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the system comprises a tyre rolling noise recording device for producing the recording of the tyre rolling noise by recording real or simulated rolling noises which occur in the vicinity of the test wheel during the real or simulated rolling of a real or simulated test wheel on a real or simulated roadway.

42. A system in accordance with claim 41, characterized in that the recording of the tyre rolling noise is producible with the aid of the tyre rolling noise recording device by recording the rolling noises in dependence on the rolling speed of the test wheel on the roadway.

43. A system in accordance with claim 42, characterized in that the tyre rolling noise recording device comprises a tyre noise measuring trailer in which the real test wheel is adapted to be mounted in freely rotatable manner for the purposes of rolling on the real roadway.

44. A system in accordance with claim 42, characterized in that the tyre rolling noise recording device comprises at least one sound pressure sensor for measuring a prevailing sound pressure.

45. A system in accordance with claim 44, characterized in that the at least one sound pressure sensor is arranged on an outer side of the test wheel.

46. A system in accordance with claim 44, characterized in that the at least one sound pressure sensor is arranged in front of the test wheel.

47. A system in accordance with claim 44, characterized in that the at least one sound pressure sensor is arranged behind the test wheel.

48. A system in accordance with claim 44, characterized in that the at least one sound pressure sensor is a microphone.

49. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the system comprises at least one storage medium for storing the recording of the tyre rolling noise that has been produced.

50. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the system comprises a data processing arrangement for recording, reproducing and/or processing the at least one recording of the tyre rolling noise.

51. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the system comprises at least one converter unit with which analogue noise data is convertible into digital noise data and/or vice versa.

52. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device is arranged in such a manner that the sound produced during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is radiated outwardly from the at least one wheel in a direction transverse to the direction of travel.

53. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device is arranged in such a manner that the sound produced during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is radiated away from the at least one wheel in the direction of travel.

54. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device is arranged in such a manner that the sound produced during the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise is radiated away from the at least one wheel in a direction opposite to the direction of travel.

55. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that three or four tyre rolling noise reproduction devices per wheel are provided.

56. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device comprises a point-like emitter or a substantially point-like emitter.

57. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the at least one tyre rolling noise reproduction device comprises a loudspeaker.

58. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the system comprises a tyre rolling noise reproduction recording device for recording the reproduction of the recording of the tyre rolling noise in the form of a recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise, and in that a calibration unit is provided for calibrating the tyre rolling noise reproduction device so that the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise coincides with the recording of the tyre rolling noise.

59. A system in accordance with claim 58, characterized in that the system comprises at least one simulation sound field sound pressure sensor for the production of the recording of the reproduction of the tyre rolling noise.

60. A system in accordance with claim 59, characterized in that the at least one simulation sound field sound pressure sensor is arranged with the same spatial relationship relative to the wheel as that of the at least one sound pressure sensor relative to the test wheel.

61. A system in accordance with claim 59, characterized in that the at least one simulation sound field sound pressure sensor and the at least one sound pressure sensor are identical or of similar construction.

62. A system in accordance with claim 59, characterized in that the system comprises three or four sound pressure sensors and three or four simulation sound field sound pressure sensors.

63. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the measuring device is arranged in the interior in such a manner that the noise component can be measured at a position which corresponds to the left ear of the front seat passenger or the right ear of the driver.

64. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the vehicle comprises four wheels.

65. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that identical wheels are arranged on the vehicle.

66. A system in accordance with claim 40, characterized in that the vehicle is a motor vehicle.

67. A system in accordance with claim 41, characterized in that the system comprises a multiplicity of different recordings of the tyre rolling noise incorporating noise data for different combinations of test wheels and roadways.

68. A system in accordance with claim 41, characterized in that the at least one wheel is the test wheel or a wheel of similar construction to the test wheel.