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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2017
Hankook Tire Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Soon Hong So, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong Mu Heo, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Wook Ihm, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong Heon Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hankook Tire Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The disclosed technology generally relates to tires, and more particularly to a method of and a smart tire system for evaluating a state of a tire, and providing an alarm, and to a smart tire configured for the method and the system. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether an abnormality or a problem exists in a state of a tire, by processing a tire state value from a TPMS sensor. Processing the tire state can be carried out by a sensor processor and/or a sensor information processor. The method additionally includes providing an alarm to a user, e.g., a driver. The method additionally includes verifying the determination of whether there is an abnormality or a problem. Thus, the disclosed method includes determining the state of a tire and providing an alarm, where the alarm has high reliability because it is generated based on examination of various parameters of the tire state, including, e.g., pressure, temperature and/or acceleration. The disclosed technology additionally relates to a system and a smart tire configured to implement the method. The method, the system and the tire according to embodiments may be improvements over existing methods, systems and tires.