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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Llc, Nashville, TN (US);
David O. Stalnaker, Akron, OH (US);
Robert Palmer, Akron, OH (US);
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring tire aging with respect to a motor vehicle and/or across vehicle fleets. A computing device (e.g., cloud server) is linked to vehicle-mounted data acquisition devices which provide signals corresponding to ambient temperature and contained air temperatures for respective tires. The computing device ascertains oxidative aging characteristics for the tires, based on at least the collected ambient temperature and respective contained air temperature, and respective rates of accumulation thereof with respect to time and/or distance traveled, and further ascertains the oxidative aging characteristics for each tire with respect to a fixed reference ambient temperature, and respective rates of accumulation thereof with respect to time and/or distance traveled. Selectively generated output signals correspond to monitored characteristics and respective rates of accumulation thereof for the respective tires. The oxidative aging characteristics may for example be ascertained at least in part via Arrhenius reaction rate integration.