US5596141A
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Tire resonance frequency detecting system having inter-wheel noise elimination and method for the same
Assignee: Denso Corp
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Filing: 1995-08-03
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Granted: 1997-01-21
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Expires: 2015-08-03
Abstract
Abstract Tire vibration frequency components of left-hand and right-hand tires are derived from wheel speed signals while a vehicle is traveling. A noise frequency component is detected based on a correlation between the vibration frequency components of the left-hand and right-hand tires, and the noise frequency component is reduced relative to the vibration frequency component. Thereafter, resonance frequencies of each tire are detected using the vibration frequency component from which the noise frequency component is reduced, and tire air pressures are detected on the basis of the resonance frequencies.
Inventors
- 👤 Yoshihiro Nishikawa
- 👤 Ikuo Hayashi
- 👤 Takeyasu Taguti
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 10:26
CPC Classifications
B; B60; B60C; B60C23/00; B60C23/06; B60C23/061; B60C23/062
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
164 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle having a left-hand tire and a right-hand tire, said apparatus comprising: first output means for outputting a vibration frequency component of said left-hand tire during vehicle travelling; second output means for outputting a vibration frequency component of said right-hand tire during vehicle travelling; noise detecting means for detecting a noise frequency component, other than a resonance frequency caused by a tire air pressure, from said vibration frequency components of said left-hand tire and said right-hand tire based on a correlation between said vibration frequency components of each tire output by said first output means and said second output means; noise removing means for removing said noise frequency component detected by said noise detecting means from the vibration frequency components of each tire; and tire resonance frequency detecting means for detecting a tire resonance frequency from said vibration frequency component of each tire from which said noise frequency component is removed by said noise removing means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
164 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle having a left-hand tire and a right-hand tire, said apparatus comprising: first output means for outputting a vibration frequency component of said left-hand tire during vehicle travelling; second output means for outputting a vibration frequency component of said right-hand tire during vehicle travelling; noise detecting means for detecting a noise frequency component, other than a resonance frequency caused by a tire air pressure, from said vibration frequency components of said left-hand tire and said right-hand tire based on a correlation between said vibration frequency components of each tire output by said first output means and said second output means; noise removing means for removing said noise frequency component detected by said noise detecting means from the vibration frequency components of each tire; and tire resonance frequency detecting means for detecting a tire resonance frequency from said vibration frequency component of each tire from which said noise frequency component is removed by said noise removing means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
56 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said noise detecting means is for determining said each vibration frequency component as said noise frequency component when said correlation between said vibration frequency components output by said first output means and said second output means statistically has a specified inherent value.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
52 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein said noise detecting means is for determining said correlation using a phase lag between said vibration frequency components output by said first output means and said vibration frequency component output by said second output means at each frequency.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
55 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein said noise detecting means is for detecting each vibration frequency component as said noise frequency component when said phase lag between said vibration frequency components output by said first output means and said second output means is within a predetermined range.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
48 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein said noise detecting means detects each vibration frequency component as said noise frequency component when each vibration frequency component output by said first output means and said second output means has the same phase.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
49 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein said noise detecting means is for determining said correlation using coherence functions on said vibration frequency components corresponding to said left-hand tire and said right-hand tire which include a tire vibration component at each frequency.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
41 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said noise removing means is for suppressing an influence of said noise frequency component by compensating a power spectrum of said noise frequency component at each frequency.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
54 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said first output means and said second output means respectively output said vibration frequency component corresponding to each tire by performing a fast Fourier transform operation with respect to wheel speed signals from wheel speed sensors installed for each tire.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
38 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said noise removing means is for removing said noise frequency component by deleting a power spectrum of said noise frequency component at each frequency.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
58 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, said apparatus further comprising: tire air pressure detecting means for detecting air pressures of each tire based on said tire resonance frequency components derived from said vibration frequency components of each tire from which said noise frequency component is removed by said noise removing means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
65 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, said apparatus further comprising: tire air pressure detecting means for detecting air pressures of each tire based on tire spring constants which correspond to said tire resonance frequency and are detected from said vibration frequency components of each tire from which said noise frequency component is removed by said noise removing means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
47 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said noise detecting means detects said noise frequency component based on a phase correlation between said vibration frequency components of each tire output by said first output means and said second output means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
47 words
A tire resonance frequency detecting apparatus for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said noise detecting means detects said noise frequency component based on occurrence in time of said vibration frequency components of each tire output by said first output means and said second output means.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
114 words
A method of detecting resonance frequencies of vehicle tires, said method comprising the steps of: generating a first vibration signal representative of vibration frequency components of a first wheel; generating a second vibration signal representative of vibration frequency components of a second wheel; correlating vibration frequency components in said first vibration signal with vibration frequency components in said second signal; removing noise frequency components from at least one of said first vibration signal and said second vibration signal responsive to said vibration frequency component correlation step to produce at least one noise-removed vibration signal; and detecting a resonance frequency of said at least one tire based on said at least one noise-removed vibration signal.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
114 words
A method of detecting resonance frequencies of vehicle tires, said method comprising the steps of: generating a first vibration signal representative of vibration frequency components of a first wheel; generating a second vibration signal representative of vibration frequency components of a second wheel; correlating vibration frequency components in said first vibration signal with vibration frequency components in said second signal; removing noise frequency components from at least one of said first vibration signal and said second vibration signal responsive to said vibration frequency component correlation step to produce at least one noise-removed vibration signal; and detecting a resonance frequency of said at least one tire based on said at least one noise-removed vibration signal.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
34 words
The method of claim 14, said vibration frequency component correlating step comprising a step of calculating a phase lag between corresponding vibration frequency components in said first vibration signal and said second vibration signal.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 14, said phase lag calculating step comprising a step of determining whether said phase lag is within a predetermined range.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 14, said phase lag calculating step comprising a step of determining whether said phase lag is zero.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
74 words
The method of claim 14, wherein: said first vibration signal generating step is a step of generating a first vibration signal representative of vibration frequency components of a first wheel on a first side of a vehicle; and said second vibration signal generating step is a step of generating a second vibration signal representative of vibration frequency components of a second wheel on a second side of said vehicle different from said first side.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
38 words
The method of claim 14, said noise frequency removing step comprising a step of compensating a power spectrum of said at least one of said first and second vibration signals responsive to said vibration frequency component correlation step.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
47 words
The method of claim 14, said noise frequency removing step comprising a step of eliminating a portion of a power spectrum of said at least one of said first and second vibration signals corresponding to said noise frequency components responsive to said vibration frequency component correlation step.
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