Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Road surface condition estimation device
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Application No.: US15122227Application Date: 2015-03-12
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Publication No.: US10086842B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Youichirou Suzuki , Akira Takaoka , Takashi Saitou , Nobuya Watabe , Masashi Mori , Takatoshi Sekizawa
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-054930 20140318
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/001395 WO 20150312
- International Announcement: WO2015/141200 WO 20150924
- Main IPC: B60W40/06
- IPC: B60W40/06 ; B60C19/00 ; B60W40/068 ; G01M17/02

Abstract:
A road surface condition estimation device includes a tire side device and a vehicle side device. The tire side device includes a vibration detection unit outputting a detection signal indicating a tire vibration magnitude, a signal processing unit, and a transmitter. The signal processing unit extracts a ground contact duration during which a portion of the tread corresponding to an arrangement position of the vibration detection unit is in contact with a ground, calculates a high frequency component level of the detection signal detected during the ground contact duration, counts cumulative rotation number of the tire, and corrects the level of the high frequency component based on the cumulative rotation number of the tire. The transmitter transmits corrected level of the high frequency component as road surface condition data. The vehicle side device estimates a road surface condition of the travelling road based on the received road surface condition data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160368502A1 ROAD SURFACE CONDITION ESTIMATION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-12-22
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