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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Nunzio DeCia, Northville, MI (US);
David A Herman, Southfield, MI (US);
Arun Dutta, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 23/04 (2006.01); B60C 23/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 23/0486 (2013.01); B60C 23/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring tires of vehicles via personal area networks. An example vehicle includes a body, nodes spaced apart on the body, a tire, a transceiver coupled to the tire, and a tire detector. The tire detector is to determine a tire position based on wireless communication between the transceiver and the nodes, identify a duration that the tire is at the tire position, and present a warning to rotate the tire position when the duration is greater than a predetermined threshold.