Patent ID: 8836495
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: B60C,G01M

Abstract:
1. A wheel position identifying device for a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of transmitters associated with wheels of the vehicle, respectively, each of the transmitters including: a receiver mounted on a body of the vehicle, the receiver including: the first control unit determines whether the wheel associated with the transmitter is a front wheel or a rear wheel based on an acceleration state of the wheel whether the wheel is in an accelerating state or in a decelerating state and an effective radius of a tire of the wheel obtained from the tangential-direction acceleration, and the first control unit establishes a position of the wheel as front right, front left, rear right, or rear left based on the determination result indicating whether the wheel is the right wheel or the left wheel and a determination result indicating whether the wheel is the front wheel or the rear wheel, and the first control unit stores an established position of the wheel in the frame as the wheel position determination data.