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Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2016
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventor:

Yuji Taki, Miyoshi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 23/02 (2006.01); B60C 23/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 23/0486 (2013.01); B60C 23/0401 (2013.01);
Abstract

A warning control unit of this tire air pressure monitoring device starts giving a driver a tire air pressure fall warning when a tire air pressure is equal to or lower than a first threshold. The warning control unit stops the warning when the tire air pressure becomes equal to or higher than a second threshold that is set based on a tire temperature in a case where the warning is being given. The warning control unit uses a constant value unrelated to a detected tire temperature as the first threshold, and uses a value obtained by adding a variable value, which is obtained by adding a positive constant value to a value that increases as a temperature difference obtained by subtracting a tire temperature at the time of the issuance of the warning from a current tire temperature increases, to the first threshold, as the second threshold.


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