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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2002
Frederick James Porter, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
James Edwin Blatchford, Northville, MI (US);
Thomas Michael McQuade, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A tire pressure monitoring system ( ) for a vehicle ( ) includes a warning status memory ( ) having warning statuses therein and a plurality of tires ( and ) in respective rolling locations, each of said plurality of tires having a transmitter ( ). When one of the tires has been filled with air, the controller ( ) receives a pressure signal from one of the tire transmitters generated in response to a predetermined increase in pressure. The controller ( ) clears the warning statuses from the warning status memory ( ) when the pressure signal is in a normal range and, thereafter monitors the tires in the rolling locations and generates warning statuses therefor.