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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2022
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Llc, Nashville, TN (US);
Thomas A. Sams, Akron, OH (US);
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method as disclosed enables predicting of vertical loads on a vehicle tire. Thermal characteristics for a particular vehicle-tire combination are retrievably stored, the thermal characteristics determined as corresponding to a range of temperature values further correlated with a plurality of operating conditions, and the plurality of operating conditions comprising at least a vertical load. A model for predicting transient temperature behavior is generated (e.g., empirically trained) based on one or more tire-specific time constants. During operation of the vehicle-tire combination and responsive to at least a first temperature value, a computing device residing on the vehicle or otherwise cloud-based in nature is configured to determine a predicted vertical load based on a predicted second temperature value from the model and further based on the retrievably stored one or more thermal characteristics.