Patent ID: 7271708

Claim:
A wheel assembly informing system, comprising: a plurality of wheel assembly identification indicating members that are respectively mounted to a plurality of wheel assemblies mounted to a vehicle body and have different characteristic appearances among the plurality of wheel assemblies, the characteristic appearances making the respective wheel assemblies mutually distinguishable in external appearance; a plurality of first communication devices that are respectively mounted to the plurality of wheel assemblies and transmit by wireless transmission pieces of wheel assembly information on the respective wheel assemblies as well as self-held pieces of identification information from the wheel assembly sides; a storage device that is provided on the vehicle body side and stores a correlation between pieces of information on the characteristic appearances of the wheel assembly identification indicating members mounted to the plurality of wheel assemblies respectively and the pieces of identification information held by the first communication devices; a second communication device that receives the pieces of wheel assembly information and identification information transmitted from the first communication devices, extracts from the received pieces of identification information the pieces of information on the characteristic appearances corresponding to the received pieces of identification information by referring to the correlation stored by the storage device, and specifies each one of the plurality of wheel assemblies from which the pieces of wheel assembly information are transmitted; and an informing device that informs states of the specified wheel assemblies individually based on the pieces of wheel assembly information.