Tire Pressure Alert Delay for Persistent Low-Pressure Warnings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing tire inflation pressure management systems generate frequent notifications when tire inflation pressure fluctuates, leading to user inconvenience.

Innovation Solution

A tire inflation pressure management system that includes an information acquisition unit, an alert generation unit, and an alert output unit. The system acquires tire inflation pressure data, generates alert information when the pressure falls below a first threshold, and outputs notifications outside the system after a predetermined period.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If alert information is generated frequently when tire inflation pressure fluctuates, then tire safety is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to troublesome notifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetire safetyVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies periodic action by setting a predetermined period threshold for alert output. Instead of notifying users immediately upon every pressure fluctuation, the system accumulates alert conditions over a time period and only outputs notifications after the predetermined period has elapsed. This temporal filtering reduces frequent notifications while maintaining safety monitoring, directly resolving the contradiction between tire safety and user convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

2Loss of information

If real-time tire inflation pressure monitoring is implemented, then tire condition awareness is improved, but notification frequency increases causing user inconvenience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetire condition awarenessVSAvoidnotification frequency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors tire inflation pressure in real-time but applies periodic filtering to the alert output mechanism. By introducing a predetermined period threshold before notification, the system maintains complete awareness of tire conditions while reducing the frequency of user notifications to only those cases where the low-pressure state persists beyond the threshold period.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary monitoring and evaluation of tire pressure conditions before generating notifications. By预先 accumulating alert conditions and evaluating whether they meet the predetermined period threshold before outputting notifications, the system ensures that only sustained issues trigger user alerts, reducing unnecessary notifications while maintaining comprehensive monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4494901A1Tire inflation pressure management apparatus, tire inflation pressure management system and tire inflation pressure management method
Publication Date: 2025.01.22 TOYO TIRE CORP
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AI summary

A tire inflation pressure management apparatus (30) includes an information acquisition unit (32), an alert generation unit (33), and an alert output unit (34). The information acquisition unit (32) acquires information on a tire inflation pressure measured by a sensor (10) provided in a tire (1). The alert generation unit (33) generates alert information when the tire inflation pressure acquired by the information acquisition unit (32) is below a first threshold value smaller than an appropriate value of the tire inflation pressure. The alert output unit (34) gives a notification outside after an elapse of a predetermined period to indicate that the alert information is generated by the alert generation unit (33) during the predetermined period.