Patent · US Expired

Method for assigning wheels of a motor vehicle to the respective vehicle axle

US7245206B2 · kind B2 · utility

2Cited by

5References

10Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

Ralph Gronau · Wetter, DE
Peter Sager · Friedrichsdorf, DE
Dirk Leise · Adelsheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 29, 2003
Grant date	Jul 17, 2007
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 25, 2024

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60C23/0416
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for allocating wheels of a motor vehicle to a respective vehicle axle, each of the wheels includes an inflation tire whose tire pressure is monitored by a tire pressure monitoring device including at least one transmitting module in each wheel, and at least one receiving module arranged at or in the vehicle and one evaluation module, with each transmitting module transmitting tire pressure information and a wheel-specific identification number to the receiving module, which are sent to an evaluation process in the evaluation module, and tire pressure changes of the wheels are considered for the allocation, with the wheels having almost identical tire pressure changes being allocated to one vehicle axle by taking into account a vehicle-specific axle load.

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