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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mikao Nakajima, Osaka, JP;
Assignees:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Sumito Rubber Industries, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C / ; B60C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
731462 ; 731465 ; 340444 ;
Abstract
A tire pressure drop detecting method, which executes a pneumatic pressure drop judging processing for autocruise traveling when the vehicle is in a state of autocruise traveling. It is judged based on a front/rear acceleration of the vehicle whether the vehicle is in a state of autocruise traveling or not. Furthermore, the pneumatic pressure drop judging processing for autocruise traveling is performed by using a judging threshold value which is set to become smaller as the speed of the vehicle becomes larger.