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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2018
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Watanabe, Kokubunji, JP;
Shin Sukegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Ohara, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Matsuo, Kodaira, JP;
Kotaro Yamada, Kodaira, JP;
Satoshi Hirajima, Kodaira, JP;
Suguru Yamaguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tire theft monitoring system includes a transmitter attached to a tire and configured to transmit tire ID information, a second database configured to store the vehicle ID information of the vehicle and contact information of an owner of the vehicle in association with each other, and a monitoring apparatus mounted on a vehicle to be monitored, and the monitoring apparatus includes a reader configured to perform near field communication with the transmitter attached to the tire mounted on the vehicle to be monitored, to acquire the tire ID information, and a controller configured to, in a case where the reader cannot acquire the tire ID information, determine that the tire identified with the tire ID information has been stolen and make a notification to contact information stored in the second database in association with vehicle ID information of the vehicle to be monitored.