Patent ID: 7053761

Claim:
A vehicular tire pressure monitoring system comprising: a vehicle equipped with at least a front driver-side wheel location, a front passenger-side wheel location, a rear driver-side wheel location, and a rear passenger-side wheel location; four tires; each of said four tires inflated to a tire pressure; each of said four tires having associated therewith a tire pressure sensor sensing the tire pressure in that tire; a signal indicative of said tire pressure broadcasted via a radio frequency wireless transmission from each of said tire sensors to a controller located within the interior cabin of the vehicle; said controller processing said signals and applying a triangulation technique to determine at which of the front driver-side wheel location, front passenger-side wheel location, rear driver-side wheel location and rear passenger-side wheel location are located the four tires transmitting signals to the controller; and a display visible to the driver of the vehicle indicating the tire pressure condition at any one, at several or at all of said wheel locations.