Tire theft alarm system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9738254-B2
Application number	US-201314651470-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2013
Priority date	Dec 13, 2012
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

A tire theft alarming system includes a vehicular device mounted to a vehicle and a mobile device carried by a user of the vehicle. When a main power supply of the vehicle is in an OFF state, the vehicular device transmits a radio wave including a first alarm based on having a variation in air pressure or acceleration of a tire, which is mounted to the vehicle, detected by a sensor transmitter for detecting and transmitting the air pressure of the tire or the acceleration applied to the tire. The mobile device carries out a warning notification to a user based on having reception of a radio wave including a first alarm transmitted by the vehicular device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tire theft alarming system, comprising: a vehicular device mounted on a vehicle;
a sensor transmitter that detects and transmits an air pressure of a tire mounted to the vehicle or an acceleration applied to the tire; and a mobile device carried by a user of the vehicle, wherein the vehicular device includes:
a TPMS vehicular device that controls a display corresponding to the air pressure of the tire received from the sensor transmitter when a main power supply is in an ON state and stops an operation when the main power supply is in an OFF state; and
a door-control vehicular device that controls door-locking and door-unlocking for the vehicle by at least communicating with the mobile device when the main power supply is in an OFF state,
wherein the sensor transmitter switches a transmission destination, to which the detected air pressure of the tire or the detected acceleration is transmitted from the sensor transmitter, from the door-control vehicular device to the TPMS vehicular device, when the main power supply is switched to the ON state from the OFF state,
wherein the sensor transmitter transmits the detected air pressure of the tire or the detected acceleration to the TPMS vehicular device when the main power supply is in an ON state,
wherein the sensor transmitter switches the transmission destination from the TPMS vehicular device to the door-control vehicular device, when the main power supply is switched to the OFF state from the ON state,
wherein the sensor transmitter transmits the detected air pressure of the tire or
the detected acceleration to the door-control vehicular device when the main power supply is in an OFF state,
wherein, when a main power supply of the vehicle is in an OFF state, the door-control vehicular device transmits a radio wave including a first alarm to the mobile device based on a variation in the air pressure or the acceleration of the tire, detected by the sensor transmitter, and
wherein the mobile device carries out a warning notification to the user based on receiving the radio wave including the first alarm transmitted by the door-control vehicular device.

2. The tire theft alarming system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, after the door-control vehicular device transmits the first alarm by a radio wave, and the door-control vehicular device controls a broadband device, which is mounted to the vehicle, to transmit a second alarm to a predetermined destination outside of a transmission range of the first alarm by outputting a request to the broadband device based on a variation in reception power intensity from the sensor transmitter.

3. The tire theft alarming system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, after the mobile device carries out the warning notification to the user based on receiving the radio wave transmitted by the mobile device, and the mobile device transmits a call-back to the door-control vehicular device based on receiving a predetermined operation from the user, and
wherein the door-control vehicular device outputs a request to a broadband communication device mounted to the vehicle based on having no reception of the call-back in a period where another predetermined period has elapsed from transmitting the first alarm so that the broadband communication device transmits a second alarm to a predetermined destination outside of a transmission range of the first alarm, and
wherein the door-control vehicular device does not output the request to the broadband communication device based on having reception of the call-back in a period where the predetermined period has elapsed from transmitting the first alarm.

4. The tire theft alarming system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the door-control vehicular device prohibits transmission of the first alarm in a predetermined waiting period right after receiving an emergency earthquake early notification.

5. The tire theft alarming system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the door-control vehicular device transmits a door-locking signal to the TPMS vehicular device when a door of the vehicle is locked;
the TPMS vehicular device transmits an OFF-state notification signal to the sensor transmitter when the TPMS vehicular device receives the door-locking signal; and
the sensor transmitter switches the transmission destination from the TPMS vehicular device to the door-control vehicular device when the sensor transmitter receives the OFF-state notification signal.

6. The tire theft alarming system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the sensor transmitter includes:
a first antenna that transmits information to the TPMS vehicular device; and
a second antenna that transmits information to the door-control vehicular device.

7. A tire theft alarming system, comprising:
a vehicular device mounted on a vehicle; and
a mobile device carried by a user of the vehicle,
wherein, when a main power supply of the vehicle is in an OFF state, the vehicular device transmits a radio wave including a first alarm based on a variation in air pressure or acceleration of a tire, which is mounted to the vehicle, detected by a sensor transmitter for detecting and transmitting the air pressure of the tires or the acceleration applied to the tires,
wherein the mobile device carries out a warning notification to the user based on receiving the radio wave including the first alarm transmitted by the vehicular device, and subsequently transmits a call-back to the vehicular device based on receiving a predetermined operation from the user,
wherein the vehicular device outputs a request to a broadband communication device mounted to the vehicle based on having no reception of the call-back in a period where another predetermined period has elapsed from transmitting the first alarm so that the broadband communication device transmits a second alarm to a predetermined destination outside of a transmission range of the first alarm, and
wherein the vehicular device does not output the request to the broadband communication device based on having reception of the call-back in a period where the predetermined period has elapsed from transmitting the first alarm.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Shigetomi Ichiro

Classifications

• B60R25/102 Primary

  a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner · CPC title

• B60C23/0488

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

• B60C23/0418

  Sharing hardware components like housing, antenna, receiver or signal transmission line with other vehicle systems like keyless entry or brake control units · CPC title

• B60C23/0479

  Communicating with external units being not part of the vehicle, e.g. tools for diagnostic, mobile phones, electronic keys or service stations · CPC title

• B60C23/0437 Primary

  Means for detecting electromagnetic field changes not being part of the signal transmission per se, e.g. strength, direction, propagation or masking · CPC title