Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Road surface condition determination device performing sensing based on different sensing conditions
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Application No.: US17005434Application Date: 2020-08-28
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Publication No.: US11376901B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Yoichiro Suzuki , Masashi Mori , Takatoshi Sekizawa
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-037766 20180302
- Main IPC: B60C23/06
- IPC: B60C23/06 ; B60C23/04 ; B60W40/06

Abstract:
A tire side device is provided with a vibration detection unit that outputs a detection signal corresponding to the magnitude of tire vibration, a control unit that performs to generate road surface data indicating a road surface condition that appears in the waveform of the detection signal, and a first data communication unit that transmits the road surface data. Furthermore, a vehicle body side system is provided with a second data communication unit that receives the road surface data transmitted from the first data communication unit, and a road surface determination unit that determines the condition of the road surface that the vehicle is traveling on the basis of the road surface data. In addition, sensing is performed by the control unit under different sensing conditions at the tire side device of at least one tire among a plurality of tires and the tire side device of at least one other tire among the plurality of tires, and road surface data generated on the basis of the different sensing conditions is transmitted from the first data communication unit.
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