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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:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Martin Griesser, Eschborn, DE;
Hans Georg Ihrig, Darmstadt, DE;
Assignee:
Continental Teves AG & Co., oHG, Frankfurt, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 2/306 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 2/306 ;
Abstract
The present invention describes a method for detecting a tire pressure drop in motor vehicle tires by comparing ratios of tire pressures from select pairs of vehicle tires and detecting a prelimimary pressure drop by checking whether at least one reference value includes a predetermined minimum difference from a nominal value for this reference value.