Patent ID: 9636955
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B60C,B60W,G01K

Claim:
1. A tire-based system for real-time estimation of a temperature of a radially outward tire surface of an identified tire supporting an identified vehicle, the system comprising: at least one tire inner liner temperature sensor mounted to the tire operative to measure a tire inner liner temperature, the inner liner temperature being a first steady state input; at least one ambient air temperature sensor disposed on the vehicle operative to measure an ambient air temperature, the ambient air temperature being a second steady state input; at least one vehicle-based sensor providing vehicle-based transient behavior measurements, the transient behavior measurements being used in the generation of transient behavior vehicle-based inputs; an algorithmic prediction model correlating inner liner tire temperature to the temperature of the tire radially outward surface for the combination represented by the identified tire and the identified vehicle, the algorithmic prediction model operatively receiving the steady-state inputs and the transient behavior vehicle-based inputs and generating based upon the steady-state inputs and the transient behavior inputs a real-time estimation of the temperature of the radially outward surface of the vehicle tire during vehicle operation; and at least one vehicle control system that operatively receives the real-time estimation of the temperature of the radially outward surface of the vehicle tire.