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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2002
Brian Bennie, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Frederick James Porter, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Leena Shah, Bloomfield Township, MI (US);
Thomas Michael Mcquade, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Thomas Lee Miller, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Brian Bennie, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Frederick James Porter, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Leena Shah, Bloomfield Township, MI (US);
Thomas Michael McQuade, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Thomas Lee Miller, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A tire pressure monitoring system () for a vehicle () has a plurality of tires (and) in respective rolling locations and a spare tire () generating a spare tire identification. A controller () starts the timer () and sets a tire status to a rolling status, a pending rolling status, a spare status or a pending spare status in response to the timer and the vehicle speed. The controller () stores the status and the spare tire identification in the memory.