Patent ID: 7775098

Claim:
A method for assigning a position of a tire on a vehicle, the method comprising the following steps: providing an evaluation unit; transmitting a receive signal with an LF antenna located at a predetermined position on the vehicle and connected to the evaluation unit; providing the tire on the vehicle with a tire sensor having an individual identification number, and transmitting a transmit signal, including at least the identification number, with the tire sensor following activation by the receive signal; first initiating with the evaluation unit, at a system start time, an initialization including determination of the position on the vehicle of each tire provided with a tire sensor; storing the identification number of each tire sensor together with the position on the vehicle of the tire provided with the tire sensor as determined by the system, with the evaluation unit, before it switches over into a normal operating mode in which the tire sensors monitor tire data to be monitored; and storing the position of the tire sensor on the vehicle in the tire sensor itself and keeping the position of the tire sensor available for retrieval.