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Vehicle wheel information supply device which supplies smaller data set earlier than larger data set

US6430484B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 3, 2000
Grant dateAug 6, 2002
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Expiry dateOct 3, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB60C23/0462
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle wheel information supply device disposed on a wheel of a vehicle and supplying wheel information representative of a state of the wheel, to a receiver disposed on a body of the vehicle. The vehicle wheel information supply device is capable of successively supplying a plurality of wheel data sets, as the wheel information, which represent the state of the wheel at the same point of time and which have respective data volumes different from each other, wherein the vehicle wheel information supply device supplies the plurality of wheel data sets to the receiver in a predetermined order such that a smallest one of the wheel data sets whose data volume is the smallest among the wheel data sets is supplied earlier than the other of the wheel data sets.

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