Patent ID: 7075419

Claim:
A monitoring system for monitoring tire pneumatic pressures, comprising: a plurality of detector means incorporated in a plurality of tires of a vehicle to detect pneumatic pressures in the tires and to transmit tire data including tire identification data identifying a particular tire and detected pressure corresponding to the particular tire; a plurality of receiver means for receiving signals transmitted from the detector means to obtain the tire data from the tires; monitoring means for monitoring the pneumatic pressures in the tires based on the tire data obtained by the receiver means; a single communication line connecting the plurality of receiver means and the monitoring means so that the monitoring means obtains the tire data of the tires by executing communication with the receiver means through the single communication line; and an identification data imparting means provided at places where the receiver means are installed on the vehicle so that a particular receiver means is associated, from a vehicle-side, with a receiver identification data identifying the particular receiver means for the communication with the monitoring means.