Tire pressure monitoring system and method for the allocation of tire modules in a tire pressure monitoring system

US8400289B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Heise · San Jose, US
• Jens Bachon · Niedernhausen, DE
• Stefan Kammann · Kelkheim, DE
• Ralf Hartmann · Baldham, DE
• Wolfgang Erler · Taunusstein, DE
• Markus Neumann · Nuremberg, DE
• Marco Bös · Bitburg, DE
• Peter Sager · Friedrichsdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60C23/045
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a tire pressure monitoring system for motor vehicles, including a central unit (2, 7) with at least one trigger module (4), which is integrated into the central unit or connects through control lines (3) to the central unit, and with at least one tire module (6) arranged in a vehicle wheel (5), with the tire module being in communication with the central unit and the trigger module by means of wireless transmission technology, and with the tire pressure monitoring system including fewer trigger modules than tire modules.