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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1986
Nippon Soken, Inc., Nishio, JP;
Abstract
A road surface detecting device has a circular plate connected with an axle of a vehicle so as to be rotated with said axle, and has a large number of teeth at regular intervals in its outer periphery. A rotary sensor detecting the passage of the teeth of the circular plate, and generates a pulse signal, and a microcomputer receive the pulse signal. The microcomputer calculates instantaneous speeds of a wheel from the period of the pulse signal and calculates an average value of a plurality of instantaneous speeds obtained in the predetermined rotations of a wheel another average value of a plurality of instantaneous speeds obtained in the next predetermined rotations of a wheel is also calculated as a presumed speed of a vehicle based on one and another average values. The microcomputer then calculates an absolute value of a difference between the instantaneous speeds in the predetermined rotations after next of a wheel and the presumed speed of vehicle, cancels an absolute value of an oldest difference every time when an absolute value of a newest difference is obtained, and calculates a successive integrated value by adding absolute values of a predetermined number of differences to one another. The microcomputer determines the road surface condition to be a bad condition when the successive integrated value is not less than a predetermined value or as a good condition when the successive integrated value is not more than the predetermined value.