A tire pressure monitoring device for a wheeled vehicle that is capable of detecting vehicle motion from the output of a pressure sensor. The device determines from the output signal an indication of the power of the signal, for example the variance of the signal, and detects if the vehicle is stationary or in motion depending on the determined indication of power. The device may determine that the vehicle is in motion if the determined indication of power exceeds a threshold value.

An assistance method for adjusting the pressure of a tire mounted on a wheel of a motor vehicle having an electronic module adapted to transmit, to an on-board central unit in the vehicle, signals including data representing the pressure of the associated tire, this assistance method includes, in the first place, during an action of adjusting the pressure of a tire, determining, after receiving a number n of initial measurement signals, where n2, the gradient or slope Cd of the straight line representing the variation of the measured value Pm(t) of the pressure as a function of time. Next, on receiving each subsequent measurement signal, the remaining time required to obtain the setpoint pressure Pc is deduced from the ratio |Pc-Pm(t)|/Cd, and, on the expiry of this remaining time, initiating a procedure for managing the cessation of the pressure adjustment, and signaling the end of the adjustment.

A tire-monitoring device is arranged on a tire and includes a tire pressure sensor and a temperature sensor respectively sense tire pressure and temperature and respectively generate a tire pressure signal and a temperature signal received by a controller. When the controller determines that the tire pressure value continuously varies for a preset period or determines that a rising variation of the temperature value is larger than a preset variation, the controller generates a transmission control signal received by a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter transmits the tire pressure signal and the temperature signal to an external device, so as to display the tire pressure value and the temperature value. The present invention directly observes that the vehicle has started according to the continual variation of the tire pressure value and the variation of the temperature value and notifies the transmitter that the transmitter transmits the signal.

An apparatus for determining a driving situation of a vehicle to be monitored is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a provider configured to provide measurement values, wherein the provider is configured to obtain the measurement values at non-equidistant sampling instants, wherein the measurement values comprise information relating to the driving situation of the vehicle to be monitored. The apparatus further comprises an evaluator configured to evaluate a plurality of the measurement values with respect to a measure indicating a temporal variation of the plurality of measurement values.

The present invention provides a tire internal pressure warning system, comprising: an internal pressure data acquisition apparatus for obtaining data of internal pressure of each tire 5 of a vehicle 6 (a TPMS sensor transmitter 1 and a TPMS receiver 2); and an information terminal device 3 for determining whether there is a puncture-based failure or a failure resulting from a natural pressure drop, based on a change in the internal pressure of each tire received from the TPMS receiver 2, and displaying a warning in accordance with the failure condition.

The tire pressure monitoring system repeatedly acquires the internal pressure value of the pneumatic tire and activates the timer when the internal pressure value falls below the warning threshold. The tire pressure monitoring system stops the output of the warning information associated with the warning threshold even if the internal pressure value falls below the warning threshold again until the timer expires. The tire pressure monitoring system newly activates the timer when the internal pressure value exceeds the warning threshold after falling below the warning threshold or the danger threshold in the period until the timer expires.

A method for reading information contained in an RFID chip embedded in the mass of a tire of a motor vehicle wheel equipped with a wheel unit forming part of a tire pressure monitoring system, wherein the wheel unit detects, irrespective of the condition of the wheel (whether or not it is punctured), a wheel removal operation and then an operation for re-inflating the new tire, and the RFID chip is polled by the wheel unit when the re-inflation operation has been detected.

This disclosure describes systems and methods for determining tire inflation pressure loss. An example method may include receiving first tire pressure data for a first tire of a vehicle at a first time. The example method may also include receiving second tire pressure data for the first tire at a second time. The example method may also include identifying a slow leak in the first tire based on a relationship between the first tire pressure data and the second tire pressure data. The example method may also include causing to send an alert to a user.