Patent ID: 8042888

Claim:
A wheel position identifying apparatus for a vehicle equipped with a plurality of braking force-applying means fixed at a body of the vehicle and preliminarily associated with wheel positions of wheels to be mounted on the vehicle, respectively, the apparatus identifying the wheel position of each wheel mounted on the vehicle and comprising: braking force fluctuation generating means for controlling at least one of the braking force-applying means to generate a braking force fluctuation to at least one of the wheels independently; response probability recognizing means for recognizing a presence, or an absence, of a response of the at least one of the wheels relative to the braking force fluctuation based upon a wheel rotational speed fluctuation of the at least one of the wheels, the wheel rotational speed fluctuation being obtained from a rotation state sensor mounted on each wheel; and associating means for associating the at least one of the wheels with the at least one of the braking force-applying means respectively based upon a combination of a presence, or an absence, of the braking force fluctuation at each braking force-applying means and the presence, or the absence, of the response recognized by the response probability recognizing means.