| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | Wear amount detection device for automobile tires | US15151000 | 2016-05-10 | US10112444B2 | 2018-10-30 | Toru Takahashi; Kentaro Nishikawa; Nobuo Masaki; Yasumichi Wakao |
| A wear amount detection device to detect that a tire is in a worn state, during running, without a special sensor. The device includes a rotation sensor detecting rotation of a wheel to measure a speed of an automobile; a signal processing extracting rotation speed fluctuations synchronized with rotation, from a rotation signal detected by the rotation sensor, and obtain a rotation speed fluctuation pattern synchronized with rotation, from rotation speed fluctuations over a plurality of rotations; and a wear state determination configured to obtain, from the obtained pattern, a value of a component induced by a characteristic embodied in a tire of the wheel, the value varying in accordance with a wear state of the tire, to estimate a wear state of the tire, and to output the state. | ||||||
| 62 | CONTROL SYSTEM, VEHICLE AND METHOD | US15735595 | 2016-06-10 | US20180304697A1 | 2018-10-25 | Jonathan WOODLEY; Roxana CIOVNICU; Paul KING |
| A control system for a motor vehicle includes a central tire inflation system (CTIS) electronic controller, the CTIS controller being configured to control the CTIS to cause inflation and deflation of one or more tires, the CTIS controller being configured to cause the CTIS to operate in a selected one of a plurality of operating modes in each of which the system is configured to set a pressure of one or more tires of the vehicle to a predetermined tire pressure value, the CTIS controller being configured to generate a tire wear indicator value in dependence upon a signal indicative of vehicle speed and a signal indicative of tire pressure, the CTIS controller being configured to inhibit at least one CTIS operating mode in dependence at least in part on the generated tire wear indicator value. | ||||||
| 63 | Integrated TPMS module and RFID tag data sharing system in a tire | US14975980 | 2015-12-21 | US10105997B2 | 2018-10-23 | John Michael Fenkanyn; Peter Jung-min Suh; Amrita Patel |
| A standalone tire identification tag and standalone sensor module are mounted to a tire and configured to share and store tire identification and tire parameter-measuring sensor data through a common data sharing interface. | ||||||
| 64 | RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSPONDER FOR A TIRE | US15578531 | 2016-06-03 | US20180174015A1 | 2018-06-21 | JULIEN DESTRAVES |
| A radiofrequency transponder includes a radiating antenna and an electronic device. The radiating antenna is a single-strand helical spring forming a dipole antenna. The electronic device includes an electronic chip and a primary antenna, which are encapsulated at least partially in a rigid, electrically insulating mass. The primary antenna is electromagnetically coupled to the radiating antenna. | ||||||
| 65 | Tire and vehicle sensor-based vehicle state estimation system and method | US14794035 | 2015-07-08 | US09995654B2 | 2018-06-12 | Kanwar Bharat Singh |
| A vehicle state estimation system and method uses an observer model to make cornering stiffness estimates from tire-based sensor data and vehicle-based sensor data throughout transient and non-transient operational maneuvers of a vehicle. A cornering stiffness identifier extracts transient-state cornering stiffness estimates from the cornering stiffness estimates made by the observer model and extracts from the transient-state cornering stiffness estimates an optimal transient-state cornering stiffness estimate having a substantially highest confidence measure for use by a vehicle control system. | ||||||
| 66 | Tire Provided With An Electronic Device | US15564256 | 2016-04-06 | US20180134103A1 | 2018-05-17 | François-Xavier BRUNEAU; Lionel FAGOT-REVURAT |
| Tire of maximum width LT comprising a tread (1) asymmetric about the equatorial plane, one of its sides of which is intended to be positioned on the outboard side of the vehicle, a crown inner liner, radially furthest on the inside of the crown, and an electronic device with a sensor making for measuring at least one parameter. This electronic device is installed in the tire under the crown, radially on the inside of the inner liner of the crown, on the side of the tread that is intended to be positioned on the outboard side of the vehicle with respect to the equatorial plane and such that the axial distance from the centre of gravity of the electronic device to the equatorial plane is at least equal to 5% and at most equal to 25% of the maximum axial width of the tire LT. | ||||||
| 67 | Tire sensor-based vehicle control system optimization and method | US14537177 | 2014-11-10 | US09963132B2 | 2018-05-08 | Kanwar Bharat Singh |
| A system and method of adjusting a vehicle anti-lock brake or collision mitigation system includes multiple tire-based sensors mounted to a vehicle tire to generate tire-derivative information. An adaptive tire model processes the tire-derivative information to continuously generate in real-time revisions to multiple tire-specific performance parameters affecting the performance of a vehicle control system. The vehicle control system receives and applies in real-time the tire-sensor based revisions to the tire-specific performance parameters optimize control system performance. | ||||||
| 68 | WHEEL UNIT WITH A LOCATION SENSOR | US15707602 | 2017-09-18 | US20180113144A1 | 2018-04-26 | Nick Lobnitz; Seth Spiel; Jason Van der Schyff; Adam Fewtrell; Martin Schuster; Nelson Pina; Pedro Silva; Roman Laabs |
| A wheel unit includes a rotating wheel, a wheel axle, and a location sensor. The rotating wheel rotates with respect to the wheel axle. The location sensor is disposed in a fixed position with respect to the wheel axle. The location sensor determines coordinates for a location of the wheel unit. | ||||||
| 69 | DEVICE THAT GENERATES SALT-STATE INFORMATION OF A ROAD | US15718985 | 2017-09-28 | US20180095034A1 | 2018-04-05 | Frederic STEFAN; Uwe GUSSEN; Christoph ARNDT; Frank PETRI |
| In order to obtain information about a salt-state of a road independently of drivers, a method that generates information about the salt-state of a road is specified that includes a determination of salt-state-dependent measurement values, processing of the measurement values into information about the salt-state of the road and outputting of the information about the salt-state of the road. A corresponding device that generates information about the salt-state of a road comprises sensors that determine of salt-state-dependent measurement values, a processing unit that is configured to process determined measurement values into information about the salt-state of the road, and output the information about the salt-state of the road. | ||||||
| 70 | System and method for determining tread wear of a tire | US15351760 | 2016-11-15 | US09831922B1 | 2017-11-28 | Robert Lindsay Robinson |
| A system for determining tread wear of a tire includes a first wireless communication chip located at an inner surface of the tire and a second wireless communication chip located at an outer surface of the tire. The second chip resides in a slot extending through a housing located in a groove in a tread of the tire. The second chip moves in the slot toward the bottom of the groove in response to the tread wear. Methodology entails transmitting a first signal from a first chip, receiving the first signal at the second chip, transmitting a second signal from the second chip in response to receipt of the first signal, receiving the second signal at the first chip, computing a time delay between transmission of the first signal and receipt of the second signal, and determining tread wear of the tire in response to the time delay. | ||||||
| 71 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE TIRE CONTACT AREA PARAMETER CHARACTERIZING A DIMENSION OF A TIRE CONTACT AREA ON A TIRE OF A WHEEL OF A VEHICLE | US15533052 | 2015-12-18 | US20170334254A1 | 2017-11-23 | FLORIAN HUBERT LIMBRUNNER; MATTHIAS KRETSCHMANN |
| A system for determining a tire contact area parameter includes a sensor module on the tire. The sensor module has a sensor that receives a sensor signal which is dependent on a mechanical tire load at a predetermined measuring point on the tire. A first evaluation device evaluates the sensor signal and provides data based on the sensor signal. The data contain a data element which indicates a time point in the sensor signal. The time point characterizes a passage of the measuring point through the tire contact area. A second evaluation device calculates the tire contact area parameter by evaluating the data provided by the first evaluation device. The first evaluation device analyses the sensor signal based on a predetermined evaluation criterion with respect to the signal quality of the sensor signal to provide signal quality information of the sensor signal. | ||||||
| 72 | Tire sensing method for enhanced safety and controllability of vehicles | US14733640 | 2015-06-08 | US09815343B1 | 2017-11-14 | Simon Laflamme; Randall L. Geiger |
| A method for tire sensing includes providing a tire comprising (a) a tire body having an outer wall for contact with a surface and opposite side walls, and an inside surface and (b) at least one flexible strain gauge positioned along the inside surface of the tire body, wherein the at least one flexible strain gauge is positioned to sense tire deflections or strain. The method further includes sensing tire data indicate of the tire deflections using the at least one flexible strain gauge and communicating the tire data to a data acquisition system, control system, or computer system. The flexible strain gauge(s) may be soft dielectric capacitive sensors, soft resistive sensors, or soft capacitive/resistive sensors. | ||||||
| 73 | TIRE LIFT-OFF PROPENSITY PREDICTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD | US15609091 | 2017-05-31 | US20170320494A1 | 2017-11-09 | Kanwar Bharat Singh; Anthony William Parsons; Marc Engel |
| A system for predicting tire lift-off propensity of a vehicle tire includes a vehicle tire-affixed tire-identification device for providing a tire-specific identification, multiple tire-affixed sensors mounted to the tire measuring tire-specific parameters and generating tire-specific parameter information, one or more vehicle-affixed sensor(s) mounted to the vehicle to measure vehicle speed and a lift-off propensity estimator generating a lift-off propensity for the vehicle tire from a database containing experimentally-derived, tire-ID specific, lift-off propensities correlated with measured tire-specific parameter information and vehicle speeds. | ||||||
| 74 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE MONITORING WITH RADAR | US15445768 | 2017-02-28 | US20170254897A1 | 2017-09-07 | Eviatar TRON; Igal BILIK; Mario JODORKOVSKY |
| Methods and systems are provided for mobile platforms. A mobile platform comprises a body and a radar system. The body includes a wheel assembly, and the radar system is installed on the wheel assembly. | ||||||
| 75 | REPLACEMENT NECESSITY DETERMINATION DEVICE FOR SNAP-IN VALVE | US15412814 | 2017-01-23 | US20170241566A1 | 2017-08-24 | Yuji TAKI |
| Provided is a replacement necessity determination device for a snap-in valve having an inner end to which an air pressure detection device including an air pressure sensor and an acceleration sensor is coupled. A control device of the replacement necessity determination device is configured to predict an angle change amount of the snap-in valve and the air pressure detection device with respect to a wheel caused by a centrifugal force based on a rotational speed of the wheel and an acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor, calculate a degradation indication value of an elastic body of the snap-in valve based on a maximum value of the angle change amount during a period set in advance, and determine necessity of replacement of the snap-in valve based on an integrated value of the degradation indication value. | ||||||
| 76 | Tire cornering stiffness estimation system and method | US14549845 | 2014-11-21 | US09739689B2 | 2017-08-22 | Kanwar Bharat Singh |
| A tire cornering stiffness estimation system and method includes multiple tire-affixed sensors mounted to a supportive vehicle tire for operably measuring tire-specific parameters and generating tire-specific information relating tire pressure, temperature, wear state, tire identification and tire loading. One or more accelerometer(s) are mounted to the hub supporting the tire to generate a hub accelerometer signal. A model-based tire cornering stiffness estimator is included to generate a model-derived tire cornering stiffness estimation based upon the hub accelerometer signal adapted by the tire-specific information. | ||||||
| 77 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT FOR A TIRE | US15519097 | 2015-10-13 | US20170225525A1 | 2017-08-10 | Steven LANDIS |
| An apparatus (14) for installation and removal of electronic components (10) for a tire comprises an expansion device (16) having a plurality of movably supported longitudinal prongs (18), wherein the expansion device (16) is adapted for moving at least a part of the plurality of prongs (18) between a neutral position with a least distance between the prongs (18) and at least one expansion position with a distance between the prongs (18) exceeding the least distance. The prongs (18) comprise prong tips (20), which each comprise a curved engagement surface (22), wherein each prong is adapted for engaging an exposed top lip (8) of an elastic container (2), in which the electronic component (10) is storable. The expansion device (16) is adapted for moving at least a part of the plurality of prongs (18) to an expansion position with the engagement surfaces (22) engaging the top lip (8) of the container (2), in which expansion position the top lip (8) is expanded. | ||||||
| 78 | Smart tag assembly for mounting on an object to be tracked | US14719827 | 2015-05-22 | US09682598B2 | 2017-06-20 | Alan C. Lesesky; Samuel Duke Drinkard |
| A smart tag assembly is designed for mounting on an object to be tracked. The smart tag assembly comprises a multiple layer RFID laminate adapted for electronically storing and processing data, and wireless communicating data when interrogated by an RFID reader. The laminate comprises an RFID inlay including a microchip and antenna formed with a substrate, and laminated between an outside label cover and backing. A low-profile tag carrier defines a recessed pocket designed for receiving and holding the RFID laminate, and has a generally concave outside surface adapted for residing against a generally convex surface of the object to be tracked. | ||||||
| 79 | WHEEL RIM GENERATOR | US15297403 | 2016-10-19 | US20170117774A1 | 2017-04-27 | YI-CHUAN LIN |
| A wheel rim generator is provided, including: a wheel rim having a rim, a disc, and an axis of rotation; a bearing having an outer race and an inner race, said inner race is disposed around said rim within the rim width; a rotor configured to rotate with said outer race, has at least one permanent magnet, and a center of gravity being displaced from said axis of rotation; and a stator configured to rotate with said rim, form at least one magnetic circuit with said rotor, and generate electromotive force with one of constant and changing magnetic flux in said at least one magnetic circuit as said wheel rim rotates. | ||||||
| 80 | VEHICLE ERRONEOUS START CONTROL DEVICE | US15126457 | 2015-03-12 | US20170080927A1 | 2017-03-23 | Youichirou SUZUKI; Akira TAKAOKA; Takashi SAITOU; Nobuya WATABE; Masashi MORI; Takatoshi SEKIZAWA |
| An erroneous start is controlled based on vibrations of a tire, irrespective of a poor visibility or an algorithm of an image processing. A tire-side unit detects a vibration of a tire when the tire has collided with a wheel stop or the like, and outputs collision data to a vehicle-side unit. The vehicle-side unit determines an erroneous start of the vehicle. Therefore, the erroneous start of the vehicle can be controlled without being affected by the poor visibility or the algorithm of the image processing as in a case of utilizing a camera or a radar. | ||||||
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