Tire pressure detecting module and tire pressure detecting system comprising the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9259977-B2
Application number	US-201314135432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2013
Priority date	Dec 21, 2012
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

Provided are a tire pressure detecting module that simply identifies a position of a tire detecting module to automatically assign the position of the tire detecting module and a tire pressure detecting system including the same. The tire pressure detecting module includes a phase angle sensor detecting a phase angle of a wheel, a pressure detecting sensor detecting a pressure and temperature of a tire, a pressure detecting control unit extracting a phase angle number matching a phase angle of the wheel that is detected by the phase angle sensor among a plurality of phase angle numbers that are given by uniformly dividing the wheel, and a pressure detecting transmission part transmitting tire information including a pressure value or temperature value detected by the pressure detecting sensor at the retransmission interval several times.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tire pressure detecting module comprising:
a phase angle sensor detecting a phase angle of a wheel;
a pressure detecting sensor detecting a pressure and temperature of a tire;
a pressure detecting control unit extracting a phase angle number matching the phase angle of the wheel that is detected by the phase angle sensor among a plurality of phase angle numbers that correspond to phase angles and are given from the highest position of the wheel in a clockwise direction by uniformly dividing a central angle of the wheel into a preset division, and calculating a retransmission interval by using the phase angle numbers; and
a pressure detecting transmission part transmitting tire information comprising a pressure value or temperature value detected by the pressure detecting sensor at the retransmission interval several times.

2. The tire pressure detecting module of claim 1 , wherein the pressure detecting control unit stores a unique identifier that is capable of identifying the tire pressure detecting module, and
the tire information further comprises the unique identifier.

3. The tire pressure detecting module of claim 1 , further comprising a pressure detecting battery supplying power into the phase angle sensor, the pressure detecting module, the pressure detecting control unit, and the pressure detecting transmission unit,
wherein the tire information further comprises a voltage value of the pressure detecting battery.

4. The tire pressure detecting module of claim 1 , wherein the tire information further comprises a retransmission number that is a transmitted number of the tire information.

5. The tire pressure detecting module of claim 1 , wherein the pressure detecting control unit calculates the retransmission interval by multiplying a preset time value by the phase angle number and adding the preset time value.

6. A tire pressure detecting system comprising:
a tire pressure detecting module detecting a phase angle of each of a plurality of wheels and a pressure or temperature of a tire, extracting a phase angle number matching the detected phase angle of the wheel among a plurality of phase angle numbers that correspond to phase angles and are given from the highest position of the wheel in a clockwise direction by uniformly dividing a central angle of the wheel into a preset division, and calculating a retransmission interval from the phase angle number to transmit tire information comprising the detected pressure value or temperature value at the retransmission interval several times;
a wheel rotation detecting module detecting rotation information that is information with respect to a degree of rotation of each of the plurality of wheels;
a tire information receiving module receiving the tire information, which is transmitted several times from the tire pressure detecting module, several times; and
a control unit calculating a phase angle number from a receiving interval of the tire information to automatically assign a position of the tire pressure detecting module from the phase angle number and the rotation information transmitted from the wheel rotation detecting module.

7. The tire pressure detecting system of claim 6 , wherein the retransmission interval is calculated by multiplying a preset time value by the preset phase angle number and adding the time value, and
the tire information receiving module calculates the phase angle number by subtracting the preset time value from the receiving interval to form a resultant value and dividing the resultant value by the preset time value.

Assignees

• Hyundai Autron Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Kyung-Taek

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 Primary

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

• B60C23/02 Primary

  Signalling devices actuated by tyre pressure {(hand-held tyre pressure gauges G01L17/00)} · CPC title

• B60C23/04

  mounted on the wheel or tyre · CPC title