Measuring and testing – Tire – tread or roadway – Tire inflation testing installation
Patent
1989-03-29
1990-10-30
Woodiel, Donald O.
Measuring and testing
Tire, tread or roadway
Tire inflation testing installation
73708, 73727, B60C 2302, G01L 708, G01L 904, G01L 2304
Patent
active
049660349
ABSTRACT:
A reliable indication of temperature-compensated pressure is provided from each of the wheels of a vehicle to an operator within the vehicle. A piezoresistive transducer bridge is supplied by a constant current source in one embodiment, and by a voltage of constant amplitude in another embodiment. Voltage to the bridge is reversed on a periodic basis. The use of constant current enables compensation for temperature-induced drift in transducer bridge output. The use of constant voltage enables compensation for ambient temperature, and provides an absolute, rather than a relative indication of pressure or "flatness" within the tire. Voltage polarity reversal permits compensation of amplifier offset voltage. Energy is transmitted to an from the wheel by means of a tuned circuit which is excited by a primary coil when the vehicle's engine is running. The secondary coil mounted on the wheel may be either short-circuited or selectively opened and closed to alter the operation of the primary coil, thus providing an indication of tire pressure, that indication being detected and processed by suitable microcomputer circuitry which may exist on board the vehicle. Most of the active circuit elements of the invention may be implemented in a single monolithic integrated circuit, which can be attached to a tire valve.
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Bock Ditmar H.
Grace John M.
Schrader Automotive Inc.
Woodiel Donald O.
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