Wheel positioning method, system, electronic control unit and tire pressure sensor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12208650-B2
Application number	US-202217806551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2022
Priority date	Dec 27, 2019
Publication date	Jan 28, 2025
Grant date	Jan 28, 2025

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of automobile wheel positioning, and more particularly to a wheel positioning method, a system and an electronic control unit and a tire pressure sensor. The system comprises an electronic control unit, a tire pressure sensor and an ABS sensor. Embodiments of the present application provide the wheel positioning method, the system, the electronic control unit, and the tire pressure sensors to improve the accuracy of wheel positioning.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wheel positioning method applied to an electronic control unit mounted to an automobile, each wheel of which is provided with a tire pressure sensor and an anti-lock braking system (ABS) sensor, wherein the method comprises steps of:
receiving radio frequency (RFJ data from a tire pressure sensor, wherein the RF data is transmitted when a rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor is at a target angle, and the RF data comprises a rotation period of the tire pressure sensor;
acquiring gear pulse information transmitted by the ABS sensor of each wheel of the automobile, wherein the gear pulse information and the RF data are used to represent information of the wheel at approximately the same time;
determining a rotation period of the wheel of the automobile from the gear pulse information of any one of the ABS sensors of each wheel;
judging whether a difference value between the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor and the rotation period of the automobile wheel is within a preset range; and
if the difference value between the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor and the rotation period of the automobile wheel is within the preset range, binding, by the electronic control unit, the tire pressure sensor and a target ABS sensor mounted to the same wheel as the tire pressure sensor to determine the position of the same wheel based on the position of the target ABS sensor.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit comprises a tire pressure electronic control unit (ECU) and an ABS control unit; the ABS control unit is connected to the tire pressure ECU and the ABS sensor, respectively; and the step of determining a rotation period of the wheel of the automobile from the gear pulse information of any one of the ABS sensors of each wheel comprises:
acquiring a rotation period of the wheel of the automobile by the ABS control unit, wherein the rotation period of the wheel is calculated by the ABS control unit based on the gear pulse information of any one of the ABS sensors of each wheel; or
acquiring by the tire pressure ECU the gear pulse information of any one of the ABS sensors of each wheel via the ABS control unit, and calculating the rotation period of the wheel of the automobile according to the gear pulse information.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the gear pulse information comprises a gear scale, and the step of calculating the rotation period of the wheel of the automobile according to the gear pulse information comprises:
acquiring all gear scale information corresponding to a preset sampling depth, wherein the all gear scale information includes each collected gear scale and a sampling time corresponding to each gear scale;
acquiring a currently collected gear scale and a first sampling time;
according to the currently collected gear scale, querying the all gear scale information for a second sampling time corresponding to the same gear scale as the currently collected gear scale; and
calculating the rotation period of the wheel according to the first sampling time and the second sampling time.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the judging whether a difference value between the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor and the rotation period of the automobile wheel is within a preset range comprises:
when the difference value between the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor and the rotation period of the automobile wheel is zero, determining it to be within the preset range, otherwise, not within the preset range.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
when a data frame is lost in the received RF data, synchronously matching the obtained gear pulse information according to the lost data frame, so that the time when the gear pulse information is obtained matches the time when the RF data is received.

6. A wheel positioning method applied to a tire pressure sensor, the method comprising:
waking up the tire pressure sensor periodically, and acquiring a rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor when the tire pressure sensor is in a wake-up state;
determining a rotation period of the tire pressure sensor;
transmitting RF data including a rotation period of the tire pressure sensor to an electronic control unit when the rotation angle is a preset target angle, wherein the RF data comprises the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor; the rotation period is used for the electronic control unit to judge whether a difference value between the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor and the rotation period of the wheel is within a preset range; and
if the difference value between the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor and the rotation period of the wheel is within a preset range, determining the position of the wheel where the tire pressure sensor is located.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the determining a rotation period of the tire pressure sensor comprises steps of:
calculating a rotation period of the tire pressure sensor according to a formula

T
=

2
⁢

π

R
Acc

,

 wherein T is the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor, R is a wheel radius, and Acc is a centripetal acceleration detected by the tire pressure sensor; or
determining a detection time point when the rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor is 0 degrees and a detection time point corresponding to 360 degrees when the tire pressure sensor rotates from 0 degrees to 360 degrees, and calculating the rotation period of the tire pressure sensor according to the detection time point corresponding to 0 degrees and the detection time point corresponding to 360 degrees.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the step of acquiring the rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor comprises:
obtaining the rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor according to a gravitational acceleration component of the tire pressure sensor in the X axis or the Z axis.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the step of obtaining the rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor according to a gravitational acceleration component of the tire pressure sensor in the X axis or the Z axis comprises:
acquiring a waveform of an X-axis gravitational acceleration component or a waveform of a Z-axis gravitational acceleration component of the tire pressure sensor;
performing filtering processing on the obtained waveform;
calculating a sampling rate of the X-axis gravitational acceleration component or the Z-axis gravitational acceleration component after performing filtering processing, wherein the sampling rate is used for sampling the X-axis gravitational acceleration component or the Z-axis gravitational acceleration component; and
converting the sampled X-axis gravitational acceleration component or the sampled Z-axis gravitational acceleration component into a rotation angle of the tire pressure sensor.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the step of performing filtering processing on the obtained waveform comprises:
filtering out gravitational acceleration components that exceed upper and/or lower limits to obtain a filtered first waveform; and
performing small-amplitude acceleration noise filtering pr

Assignees

• Autel Intelligent Tech Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Zeng Feng
• Luo Yongliang

Classifications

• B60C23/0462

  Structure of transmission protocol · CPC title

• B60C23/0489

  for detecting the actual angular position of the monitoring device while the wheel is turning · CPC title

• B60C23/0416

  allocating a corresponding wheel position on vehicle, e.g. front/left or rear/right · CPC title

• B60C23/0488 Primary

  Movement sensor, e.g. for sensing angular speed, acceleration or centripetal force · CPC title

• B60C23/0486 Primary

  comprising additional sensors in the wheel or tyre mounted monitoring device, e.g. movement sensors, microphones or earth magnetic field sensors · CPC title