System informing a state of a wheel assembly of a vehicle and a method for informing the same
US7271708B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | May 9, 2005 |
| Grant date | Sep 18, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 26, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09F21/04
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Wheel assembly identification indicating members and first communication devices are respectively mounted to wheel assemblies mounted to a vehicle body. The indicating members have characteristic appearances, which are different among the wheel assemblies and which make the respective wheel assemblies identifiable in external appearance. The first communication devices transmit by wireless transmission pieces of wheel assembly information on the respective wheel assemblies as well as pieces of identification information held by the respective first communication devices. A second communication device provide on the vehicle body side receives the pieces of wheel assembly information and the pieces of identification information and specifies the respective wheel assemblies from which the pieces of wheel assembly information are transmitted, by referring to a correlation between prestored piece of information on characteristic appearances of the indicating members and the pieces of identification information.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.