Setting method for a tire detection data transmission system

• US 9,527,351 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2015
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chan, Chang-Hsuan, Hsu, Chin-Yao
• Primary Examiner(s): Swarthout, Brent
• Application Number:
  US14/808,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20150328943A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 340442-447
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0447 Wheel or tyre mounted circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0479 Communicating with external units being not part of the vehicle, e.g. tools for diagnostic, mobile phones, electronic keys or service stations

Abstract

A tire detection data transmission system and the setting method thereof include at least one monitoring device, for detecting the condition of vehicle tires and generating tire information, which is transmitted via a RF signal to a transfer device. The transfer device then uses a Bluetooth signal to transmit the received tire information to a mobile communication device. The RF signal emitted by the monitoring device includes at least the tire information and the identification code of the monitoring device. The identification code makes subsequent updates to the settings of the monitoring device simpler and more convenient.

Claims

1. A setting method of a tire detection data transmission system, the tire detection data transmission system that includes:

a plurality of monitoring devices, each of which includes a sensor, a signal converter, and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter;

wherein the sensor detects the tire conditions of a vehicle and generates tire information, the tire information is converted by the signal converter into an RF signal and emitted by the RF transmitter, and the emitted RF signal includes at least the tire information and an identification code of the monitoring device;

a transfer device that has a RF receiver, a central processing unit (CPU), and a Bluetooth (BT) module;

wherein the RF receiver receives the RF signal emitted by the monitoring device, the CPU collects the received RF signal into collective data of a plurality of tires, and the BT module converts the collective data into an RF signal and emits the RF signal; and

a mobile communication device that has a BT device, executable software, and a display unit;

wherein the BT device receives the BT signal sent from the BT module, restores the received BT signal into the collective data and sends the collective data to the executable software, the executable software breaks the collective data into the tire information and the identification code, both of which are then displayed on the display unit,

the method comprising;

a. starting the executable software;

b. displaying a graphical interface for each of the tires on the display unit, each of the graphical interfaces including a mode setting option;

c. selecting the mode setting option and entering an identification code for a corresponding monitoring device, thereby updating the identification code of the monitoring device for the corresponding tire in the executable software; and

d. transmitting an update message from the executable software to the transfer device via the BT device to update the identification code of the monitoring device for the corresponding tire in the transfer device.

2. The setting method of claim 1, with the mode setting option being able to modify a communication protocol of the monitoring device, further comprising:

a. starting the executable software;

b. using a displaying program to show a graphical interface for each of the tires on the display unit, with each of the graphical interfaces including a mode setting option that has an item for modifying the communication protocol;

c. selecting the item for modifying the communication protocol, and entering the communication protocol for a corresponding monitoring device, thereby updating the communication protocol for the monitoring device of the corresponding tire in the executable software; and

d. transmitting an update message from the executable software to the transfer device via the BT device, thereby updating the communication protocol for the monitoring device of the corresponding tire in the transfer device.

3. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 1, wherein the CPU has an RF decoding unit, a data holding unit, and a data integration unit;

the RF decoding unit decodes the RF signal received by the RF receiver, restores the RF signal into the tire information and the identification code in a specific coding and stores the tire information and the identification code in the data holding unit;

the data holding unit is overwritable, keeping only a last tire information according to the coding; and

the data integration unit collects the multiple sets of tire information in the data holding unit into the collective data and outputs the collective data to the BT module.

4. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 3, wherein the CPU further has a tire condition judging unit and an alarm unit, the tire condition judging unit is preset with a default value to be compared with the last tire information in the data holding unit, when the tire information exceeds a range of the default value the tire condition judging unit transmits an alarm signal to the alarm unit for the alarm unit to perform an alarm action.

5. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 1, wherein the transfer device uses the BT module thereof to emit a BT pairing message, the BT device of the mobile communication device receives the BT pairing message and generates a corresponding data transmission command to complete pairing.

6. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 5, wherein the BT module has a BT converter and a BT emitter, the BT converter converting the received collective data into a BT signal and the BT emitter emitting the BT signal to a paired mobile communication device.

7. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 1, wherein the executable software contains a receiving program, an analyzing program, and a displaying program, the receiving program receives the collective data restored by the BT device, the analyzing program breaks the collective data into multiple sets of tire information and corresponding identification codes, the displaying program shows the tire information and the corresponding identification code in a corresponding displaying block of the display unit, and only a last set of tire information is displayed.

8. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 7, wherein the executable software further has a trigger program for generating a data reading command to the BT device.

9. The setting method of a tire detection data transmission system of claim 8, wherein the display unit is a touch-controls screen, the displaying program shows a touch-control display interface on the display unit, and touch-control display interface has a graphical interface for each of the tires for the user to click for starting the trigger program to show the tire information of the corresponding tire therein.