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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1998
Hiroto Horie, Akashi, JP;
Minao Yanase, Kobe, JP;
Mikao Nakajima, Itami, JP;
Yasushi Kobayashi, Toyota, JP;
Masaaki Komazawa, Aichi-ken, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A tire air-pressure abnormality alarming device for informing decrease in air-pressure of tires attached to a four-wheeled vehicle, characterized in that the device prohibits start of initializing operations for updating stored values for physical amounts related to tires or wheels in the case where air-pressures of the tires are judged to be normal, if air-pressure abnormality of a tire is being alarmed. Initialization is accepted only after the internal pressure has become normal, whereby erroneous initialization with any tire being in a decompressed condition can be prevented. Thus, normal operations for detecting decompression of a tire can be maintained.