Patent ID: 11908250
Assignee: BRIDGESTONE EUROPE NV/SA
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 3:
4. A tire damage detection system comprising:
an acquisition device installed onboard a motor vehicle equipped with two or more wheels fitted with tires, and coupled to a vehicle bus of the motor vehicle;
wherein the acquisition device is configured to acquire signals indicative of speeds of the motor vehicle and of a wheel of said motor vehicle and to output quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel thereof;
a processing system storing a predefined tire damage model, and further configured to perform tire damage detection by
receiving the quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel of said motor vehicle,
computing, based on the quantities indicative of the speeds of the motor vehicle and of the wheel of said motor vehicle, a normalized wheel speed indicative of a ratio of the wheel speed to the motor vehicle speed, and
detecting a potential damage to a tire of the wheel of the motor vehicle based on the predefined tire damage model and on the normalized wheel speed.