Patent ID: 7661299
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: B60C

Abstract:
1. A wheel state monitoring system, for a vehicle body that includes a plurality of wheels, the wheel state monitoring system comprising: a plurality of wheel state detection units, wherein each wheel state detection unit is mounted to a corresponding wheel, each wheel state detection unit detects a wheel state for the corresponding wheel and each wheel state detection unit transmits wheel state information that indicates the wheel state; a transmitter, mounted on the vehicle body, that transmits a request signal that requests the wheel state information; and a receiver, mounted on the vehicle body, that receives the wheel state information transmitted from each wheel state detection unit, wherein, when each wheel state detection unit receives the request signal, each wheel state detection unit transmits the wheel state information, together with instructions information which indicates that the wheel state is detected by each wheel state detection unit, at a moment when each wheel state detection unit initially receives the request signal from the transmitter mounted on the vehicle body, and wherein each respective wheel state detection unit stores the wheel state information generated in response to the request signal in a memory until the respective wheel state detection unit receives a confirmation signal from the vehicle body that the wheel state information has been received by the receiver mounted on the vehicle body.