Integrated read station for a wheel-mounted vehicle
US7969293B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 13, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jun 28, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 15, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07C5/008
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A read station and method for a vehicle includes a support pad for admitting and exiting a vehicle onto an upper pad surface; two or more data-receiving systems, one or both of such systems receiving a data transmission from a vehicle situated on the read station pad surface. The data-receiving systems include an identification-data transmission system and a monitored parameter-data transmission system. One or more of the read station data-receiving systems may be configured to effect data transmission from the vehicle as the vehicle moves across the support pad. The information-data transmission system couples a vehicle wheel unit based RFID tag with an electric field established by one or more system antennae disposed on the support pad. The monitored parameter-data communication system includes one or more wheel-unit mounted monitoring device(s) transmitting data to one or more receivers disposed within the read station and an initiator sub-system that transmits a signal from pad based antenna(s) to initiate a data transmission sequence.
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