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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149100 | Device and method for distinguishing positions of tire sensors of a double tire system A device and a method for distinguishing positions of two tire sensors of a double tire include an LF antenna attached to a vehicle and connected to a central processing unit and one tire sensor each per tire. The tire sensors have a device for measuring field stren... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138905 | Circuit arrangement for a tire pressure warning device and tire pressure detecting method implemented using the tire pressure warning device A tire pressure warning device having a detection circuit is mounted to an inflation valve on every tire of a car to implement tire pressure detection. First, a microprocessing controller in the detection circuit sends a tire location ID assigned to every tire to a ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130091 | Carrier wave detecting tire pressure detecting apparatus and operating method for the same A tire pressure detecting apparatus has a micro-controller, a detecting module and a transceiver. The detecting module is electronically connected to the micro-controller and has a tire pressure detecting unit controlled by the micro-controller to detect a tire pres... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125323 | Wheel monitoring device A wheel monitoring apparatus includes a measuring and evaluation unit designed to be fastened to the wheel in the region of at least one wheel nut or bolt of the wheel. The wheel monitoring apparatus includes at least one sensor for detecting a characteristic variab... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115614 | Tire information management system In a tire information management system 10 of the present invention, a vehicle side module 5 includes a receiving electromagnetic wave strength measuring means 12 for measuring, for each sensor module 3, receiving electromagnetic wave str... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115613 | Tire pressure monitoring system auto learn algorithm A method of operating a tire pressure monitoring system on a vehicle comprising tracking number of burst transmissions sent by a sensor, building a pareto of potential sensor identifications based on the greatest number of burst transmissions received from the senso... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106758 | Tire localization system A tire localization system for locating the position of a tire of a vehicle having five or more wheels, includes a number of tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) wheel modules of a vehicle TPMS, each wheel module being attached to each one of the wheels or a tire ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8085142 | Receiver for tire condition monitoring apparatus A receiver includes two reception antennas, which receive a modulated wave (transmission signal) from each of transmitters, a selection circuit, which alternately selects one of the two reception antennas at a predetermined switching cycle to alternately obtain the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077025 | Intelligent tire systems and methods The invention is related to intelligent tire systems and methods. In one embodiment, an intelligent tire system (ITS) comprises a first sensor device, a second sensor device, a central control unit, and a transceiver. The first sensor device is mounted in a tire of ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072320 | Tire pressure monitor system tool with vehicle entry system A tire pressure monitor system tool is capable of communicating with a plurality of tire pressure monitor systems. The tool includes a storing module that stores a plurality of communication protocols that are used for enabling the tool to communicate with a tire pr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072319 | System and method for identifying a spare wheel A method is presented for identifying a first wheel on a vehicle, the vehicle including a wireless receiver. The method comprising receiving a plurality of wheel identifiers at the wireless receiver and selecting one of the plurality of wheel identifiers that corres... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063756 | Tire pressure monitor having capability of accurately detecting state of motion of vehicle A tire pressure monitor provided on a wheel of a vehicle includes a pressure sensor, a transmitter, an acceleration sensor, and a controller. The pressure sensor works to output a pressure signal representative of the inflation pressure of a tire fitted on the wheel... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8049606 | Method for assigning identification codes in radio signals from tire pressure monitoring devices on vehicle wheels to the wheel position and vehicle equipped for this method A method for the assigning of identification codes that are sent in radio signals by tire pressure monitoring devices at the wheels of a vehicle and that are received by a receiver provided in or at the vehicle, which signals are relayed to an evaluation unit connec... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044783 | Tire condition detection system and induction feed method thereof An external solenoid positioned external to a tire, and an internal solenoid provided inside a valve of the tire, which transmits and receives power by an alternating magnetic field in a predetermined high frequency band that generates an induced alternating current... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035500 | Method and device for allocating triggered transmitters of a tire monitoring system, especially of a tire-pressure monitoring system Allocating first transmitters of a tire monitoring system, especially of a tire-pressure monitoring system having a wheel unit comprising a sensor, a first transmitter, which can be triggered, and a sending antenna on each of N wheels arranged on L axles of a vehicl... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035502 | Tire module with piezoelectric converter A tire module for sensing deflection of a tire and a method of sensing deflection of the tire. The tire module includes a piezoelectric converter that is configured for installation on an inside surface of the tire. The piezoelectric converter includes at least one ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035501 | Tire monitoring system and method A tire monitoring system in or for a vehicle for determining tire-specific parameters has a distributed bus architecture. At least one intelligent receiving device is configured to receive transmit signals of a wheel electronic system. The receiving device has a sig... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031064 | Tire pressure detecting apparatus and tire pressure detector identification copying method for the same A tire pressure detecting apparatus has an identification rewriteable tire pressure detector and a setting apparatus. The tire pressure detector is securely mounted on a valve stem inside a tire of a vehicle and has a micro-processing module, a sensing module, a tra... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031065 | Tire monitor device A tire monitor device for a vehicle has a first antenna and a second antenna, a sensor unit attached to each of a front left tire, a front right tire, a back left tire, and a back right tire, and a determining unit. The tire monitor device is operable to transmit a ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8013726 | Adaptive switching receiver slice level A disclosed example receiver for receiving transmissions and data for both a remote keyless entry (RKE) system and a tire pressure monitoring (TPM) system tailors the data slice level to the characteristics unique to each of the RKE transmissions and the TPM transmi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013725 | Tire pressure monitoring device Pneumatic pressure monitoring units that measure pneumatic pressures of respective tires and that transmit results of the measurements of the pneumatic pressures from respective antennas by the use of radio signals are provided at the tires, respectively. A communic... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009027 | Contactless sensor systems and methods A tire monitoring system and associated method is disclosed. The tire monitoring system includes a plurality of tire sensor modules, employing contactless sensors, configured to transmit tire data at a predetermined time interval. The system also includes a central ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7994905 | Tire pressure monitoring (TPM) system and method of operating the same There is provided an exemplary tire pressure monitoring (TPM) system that can use a half-duplex wireless link to communicate between one or more wheel-mounted sensor units and a vehicle-mounted transceiver unit. The half-duplex wireless link enables the sensor units... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990257 | Tire localization system A tire localization system for locating the position of a tire of a vehicle having five or more wheels, includes a number of tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) wheel modules of a vehicle TPMS, each wheel module being attached to each one of the wheels or a tire ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7956731 | Hydrostatic-pressure-sensitive actuator An actuator, designed to be used in a pressurized enclosure, creates a relative movement between two parts, in response to a variation of hydrostatic pressure. The actuator includes a closed-cell foam block fixed to the two parts. The actuator may be used in the dep... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948365 | Tire air pressure monitoring system A tire air pressure monitoring system has a plurality of sensor units and a receiver. The pressure sensor units are mounted near corresponding tires to measure tire air pressures and transmit transmission signals indicating the respective measured tire air pressures... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944348 | Tire monitoring device and tire problem detecting device A device to accurately identify the wheel position where each tire has a radio wave transmitter installed without special means or operation during application by using a simple and compact configuration. This TPMS has sensor modules 14A, 14B, 14 | 05/17/2011 |
| 7924148 | Robust radio frequency signals A tire pressure monitoring system includes a receiver for processing signals and alerting an operator of the vehicle should conditions within any of the tires fall outside a desired range. The transmitters within the tires emit shorter transmission signals during op... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916011 | Tire monitor system having tire valve antenna A tire monitor system includes a tire monitor sensor unit that has a tire pressure detector, a coupler and a tire valve. The tire valve operates as an antenna to transmit tire data from the tire pressure detector. The coupler provides a capacitive coupling that remo... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916012 | Hybrid resonant structure to verify parameters of a tire Control of running conditions, and particularly physical parameters of tires are recommended to increase automobile safety. A sensor according to the invention is used to determine various factors such as the temperature or pressure of tires. The sensor is a hybrid ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7893821 | Tire pressure monitoring system A tire pressure monitoring system includes receiving antennas installed in a vehicle corresponding to vehicle wheels, a monitoring main unit disposed near a driver's seat, tire pressure sensors respectively installed in the wheels of the vehicle to wirelessly transm... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7876207 | Wake-up controller and a method therefor for power control over peripheral circuitry based upon slots of a data field In a wake-up control device for waking up a peripheral circuit such as a transmitter/receiver in a radio communication device, during a standby time in which an RF unit and a processing unit are powered off by a switch, an RF signal is received to produce a detectio... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876206 | Procedure and facility for transmission between a control device and a wheel module The procedure and the facility are used for wireless transmission between a wheel module (9) arranged in a tire (2) and an external control device (3). A first transmission signal is transmitted from an antenna (6) of the control device (... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7834749 | Stowable antenna for TPMS sensor A tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) sensor assembly 1 has a housing 2, a pressure sensor mounted in the housing 2 and an antenna 3 connected to the sensor and extending exteriorly of the housing 2 for effecting wireless commun... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834748 | Apparatus for detecting vehicle wheel positions using triggering signal from triggering device and carried out with ratio of distances between wheel mounted transceivers and triggering device An apparatus detects positions of the right/left and front/rear four wheels of a vehicle. The detection is performed using transceivers attached to the respective wheels, a triggering device disposed in a body of the vehicle to output the triggering signal, and a re... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834747 | Tire air pressure monitoring device and method for tire air pressure monitoring In a tire air pressure monitoring device and/or in a method for performing tire air pressure monitoring by a device, each monitored pneumatic tire is provided with a wheel module, which generates radiotelegrams provided with air pressure data and sends them telemetr... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7825788 | Apparatus for detecting vehicle wheel positions through measurement of triggering signal strength and noise strength and apparatus for detecting vehicle tire inflation pressure using the vehicle wheel position detecting apparatus An apparatus for detecting positions of wheels of a vehicle is provided. In the apparatus, a triggering signal is transmitted from the body side to each transceiver mounted at each wheel. In each transceiver, the strength of the received triggering signal is measure... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825787 | Wheel identifying apparatus having triggering devices associated with each axle and mounted at an orientation angle of 0 to 90° In a wheel identifying apparatus, first and second devices respectively transmit first and second trigger signals. The first device is mounted on the body of a vehicle closer to the front axle than the rear axle and closer to one of the front wheels than the other; ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821385 | Detection of vehicle wheel positions using triggering signal including startup command for starting the detection and execution command for calculating reception intensity of triggering signal In a vehicle's wheel position detecting apparatus, plural transceivers respectively attached to the front and rear four wheels are provided. Each transceiver receives a triggering signal, calculates a reception intensity of the triggering signal, stores data indicat... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817026 | Apparatus for detecting wheel positions of vehicle based on strengths of trigger signals received by wheel-mounted transceivers Four transceivers are attached to respective wheels of a vehicle. A pair of triggering devices transmit respectively different types of trigger signal, respectively directed toward the front wheels and toward the rear wheels. One triggering device is located closer ... | 10/19/2010 |
