Abstract: A vehicle-mounted receiver system includes a receiver apparatus that is controlled for receiving, in common, transmissions from a plurality of external devices such as a remote key, smart key, etc., having respectively different transmission frequencies. The receiving frequency at the current time is selected based on criteria such as the insertion/non-insertion status of the ignition key, or whether an interrogation signal has been transmitted to a specific external device so that a response transmission is be received from that device during a specific time interval and the receiving frequency is to be set accordingly during that specific interval.

Abstract: A wheel identifying apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of transceivers, a triggering device, a receiver, and a wheel identifier. Each of the transceivers is located on one of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle and works to receive a trigger signal and transmit a response signal in response to receipt of the trigger signal. The triggering device is located on a body of the vehicle at different distances from the transceivers and works to transmit the trigger signal. The receiver works to receive the response signals transmitted by the transceivers. The wheel identifier is operatively connected to the receiver and works to identify, for each of the response signals received by the receiver, the wheel on which the transceiver having transmitted the response signal is located using the fact that strengths of the trigger signal at the transceivers are different from each other.

Abstract: A wheel identifying apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of transceivers, a triggering device, a receiver, and a wheel identifier. Each of the transceivers is located on one of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle and works to receive a trigger signal and transmit a response signal in response to receipt of the trigger signal. The triggering device is located on a body of the vehicle at different distances from the transceivers and works to transmit the trigger signal. The receiver works to receive the response signals transmitted by the transceivers. The wheel identifier is operatively connected to the receiver and works to identify, for each of the response signals received by the receiver, the wheel on which the transceiver having transmitted the response signal is located using the fact that strengths of the trigger signal at the transceivers are different from each other.

Abstract: A wheel identifying apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of transceivers, a triggering device, a receiver, and a wheel identifier. Each of the transceivers is located on one of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle and works to receive a trigger signal and transmit a response signal in response to receipt of the trigger signal. The triggering device is located on a body of the vehicle at different distances from the transceivers and works to transmit the trigger signal. The receiver works to receive the response signals transmitted by the transceivers. The wheel identifier is operatively connected to the receiver and works to identify, for each of the response signals received by the receiver, the wheel on which the transceiver having transmitted the response signal is located using the fact that strengths of the trigger signal at the transceivers are different from each other.

Abstract: In a method for providing identification registration of a tire air pressure monitoring apparatus, an external equipment receives transmission data including the sensor identification from transmitters. The external equipment identifies the transmitter that transmitted the transmission data based upon the transmission data and registers the identified transmitter at the receiver.

Abstract: A tire inflation pressure sensing apparatus according to the present invention includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is provided on a wheel of a vehicle and includes a pressure sensor working to sense an inflation pressure of a tire on the wheel and an acceleration sensor working to generate a signal as a function of a component of gravitational acceleration in the sensing direction thereof. The transmitter is configured to determine a position thereof depending on the signal generated by the acceleration sensor and transmit the signal representative of the inflation pressure of the tire toward the receiver when a transmitting request is issued and the determined position thereof falls in a predetermined range. The receiver is provided on the body of the vehicle and is configured to receive the signal transmitted from the transmitter and determine the inflation pressure of the tire depending on the received signal.

Abstract: A tire condition monitoring system is composed of a detector installed in each tire, a transmitter positioned in the vicinity of each tire, and a monitor communicating with the transmitters and the detectors. An initiation signal for initiating operation of the detector is wirelessly sent from the transmitter to the detector, using a low frequency, and the pressure and temperature data detected by the detector are wirelessly sent to the monitor, using a radio frequency. A vehicle identification code differentiating the vehicle from other vehicles may be included in the initiation signal to avoid confusion with signals wirelessly sent from other vehicles. The detector is operated only when the tire condition data from that detector are required to minimize power consumption in the detector.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted receiver system includes a receiver apparatus that is controlled for receiving, in common, transmissions from a plurality of external devices such as a remote key, smart key, etc., having respectively different transmission frequencies. The receiving frequency at the current time is selected based on criteria such as the insertion/non-insertion status of the ignition key, or whether an interrogation signal has been transmitted to a specific external device so that a response transmission is be received from that device during a specific time interval and the receiving frequency is to be set accordingly during that specific interval.

Abstract: A wheel identifying apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of transceivers, a triggering device, a receiver, and a wheel identifier. Each of the transceivers is located on one of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle and works to receive a trigger signal and transmit a response signal in response to receipt of the trigger signal. The triggering device is located on a body of the vehicle at different distances from the transceivers and works to transmit the trigger signal. The receiver works to receive the response signals transmitted by the transceivers. The wheel identifier is operatively connected to the receiver and works to identify, for each of the response signals received by the receiver, the wheel on which the transceiver having transmitted the response signal is located using the fact that strengths of the trigger signal at the transceivers are different from each other.

Abstract: Provided is a remote control system capable of preventing a key code from being deciphered when the key code is transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver to be registered. In the transmitter, in response to a specified switch operation, a k-th common key code in a table to be used for enciphering a key code is changed to a registration key code stored in advance so that a key code is enciphered through the use of the table including the registration key code. A transmission code is produced by adding a predetermined code to the enciphered key code and the transmission code signal is transmitted to the receiver. This prevents easy deciphering of the key code because the key code is transmitted in a state enciphered.

Abstract: A vehicle remote control system in which a plurality of users carry respective electronic keys that are assigned respective ID codes, for communicating with a vehicle-mounted control apparatus that periodically transmits a calling code followed by the ID codes in succession, in which an electronic key that is within communication range responds to its specific ID code by transmitting response data to the vehicle-mounted apparatus for thereby initiating a control operation, and in which when an electronic key responds, the corresponding ID code is made the first in the sequence of ID codes when the calling code and ID codes are next transmitted.

Abstract: Provided are an aromatic vinyl polymer resin composition capable of being molded into resin foam sheets having good surface smoothness and glossiness well balanced with the mechanical strength thereof even when the expansion ratio in molding is increased, and resin foam sheets and containers of the composition. The resin composition comprises (A) from 80 to 98% by mass of an aromatic vinyl polymer resin having a weight-average molecular weight measured through GPC of from 200,000 to 400,000, a ratio of weight-average molecular weight to number-average molecular weight ranging from 2.2 to 3.6, a number of branches of from 0.1 to 1.0 in one molecule having an absolute molecular weight of 1,190,000 measured through GPC-MALLS, and a melt flow rate of from 1.5 to 3.5 g/10 min, and (B) from 2 to 20% by mass of a styrene-diene block copolymer or its hydrogenate. This is molded into a resin foam sheet through extrusion foaming, and the sheet is thermoformed into containers.

Abstract: Provided are an aromatic vinyl polymer resin composition capable of being molded into resin foam sheets having good surface smoothness and glossiness well balanced with the mechanical strength thereof even when the expansion ratio in molding is increased, and resin foam sheets and containers of the composition. The resin composition comprises (A) from 80 to 98% by mass of an aromatic vinyl polymer resin having a weight-average molecular weight measured through GPC of from 200,000 to 400,000, a ratio of weight-average molecular weight to number-average molecular weight ranging from 2.2 to 3.6, a number of branches of from 0.1 to 1.0 in one molecule having an absolute molecular weight of 1,190,000 measured through GPC-MALLS, and a melt flow rate of from 1.5 to 3.5 g/10 min, and (B) from 2 to 20% by mass of a styrene-diene block copolymer or its hydrogenate. This is molded into a resin foam sheet through extrusion foaming, and the sheet is thermoformed into containers.

Abstract: Provided is a tire air pressure monitoring system in which identification (“ID”) registration is automatically made while specifying a tire position to reduce the manpower of the registration operation and further to prevent mistaken registration. In this system, when an ignition switch is changed from an OFF state to an ON state to satisfy a tire position detection condition, a command is issued to a smart control unit so that a transmitter transmits an ID transmission request to an air pressure sensor, and the air pressure sensor returns ID data as a reply to the ID transmission request. The ID data received is collated with a previously registered ID and, if the result of the collation shows that the ID data pertains to the air pressure sensor of his/her own vehicle, the received ID data is registered as an ID related to a specific tire position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor ID registration for a tire air pressure monitor including a sensor unit built in each of tires of a vehicle and a receiver mounted in a vehicle body for monitoring the in-tire air pressure. The registration is conducted through using a control unit and a registration unit, provided for each vehicle manufacturing line. A different control unit number is allocated to each of the control units and transmitted from the control unit to the receiver. Moreover, a specific number identical to the number is transmitted from the registration unit to the sensor unit and data including a sensor ID and the specific number is transmitted from the sensor unit. The receiver registers the sensor ID when the specific number and the control unit number agree with each other. This achieves accurate ID registration without registering an ID of another vehicle in error.

Abstract: A tire inflation pressure sensing apparatus according to the present invention includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is provided on a wheel of a vehicle and includes a pressure sensor working to sense an inflation pressure of a tire on the wheel and an acceleration sensor working to generate a signal as a function of a component of gravitational acceleration in the sensing direction thereof. The transmitter is configured to determine a position thereof depending on the signal generated by the acceleration sensor and transmit the signal representative of the inflation pressure of the tire toward the receiver when a transmitting request is issued and the determined position thereof falls in a predetermined range. The receiver is provided on the body of the vehicle and is configured to receive the signal transmitted from the transmitter and determine the inflation pressure of the tire depending on the received signal.

Abstract: Each transmitter transmits temperature/pressure data of an associated tire together with an ID assigned to each transmitter. A pneumatic tire pressure monitoring apparatus receives the temperature/pressure data, and inputs traveling condition specifying data which specifies traveling conditions of the vehicle. Then, the pneumatic tire pressure monitoring apparatus identifies IDs assigned to the transmitters of respective tires actually installed on vehicle wheels of its own vehicle based on the temperature/pressure data and the traveling condition specifying data, and registers the identified IDs into a memory of the pneumatic tire pressure monitoring apparatus.

Abstract: A transmitter mode switching apparatus switches a transmitter into an ID registration mode, while a receiver mode switching apparatus switches a receiver into an ID transmission mode (step S1). Then, a collation ID to be transmitted from the receiver is set based on an ID assigned inherently to the receiver (step S2). Subsequently, an ID transmitting apparatus of the receiver transmits the collation ID (step S3). An ID receiving apparatus of the transmitter receives the collation ID (step S4). An ID registration apparatus of the transmitter stores the received collation ID as a registered ID of the transmitter (step S5). After the ID registration is accomplished, the transmitter mode switching apparatus returns the transmitter to an ordinary mode, while the receiver mode switching apparatus returns the receiver to an ordinary mode (step S6).

Abstract: A tire condition monitoring system is composed of a detector installed in each tire, a transmitter positioned in the vicinity of each tire, and a monitor communicating with the transmitters and the detectors. An initiation signal for initiating operation of the detector is wirelessly sent from the transmitter to the detector, using a low frequency, and the pressure and temperature data detected by the detector are wirelessly sent to the monitor, using a radio frequency. A vehicle identification code differentiating the vehicle from other vehicles may be included in the initiation signal to avoid confusion with signals wirelessly sent from other vehicles. The detector is operated only when the tire condition data from that detector are required to minimize power consumption in the detector.

Abstract: A system has a memory in a vehicle for registering an identification of a tire air pressure sensor device in the memory. The tire air pressure sensor device is provided for a tire of the vehicle. The system further comprises a receiving unit configured to receive an unlikely signal which is transmitted from the tire air pressure sensor device. The unlikely signal is unlikely to be transmitted therefrom under normal circumstances. The system also comprises a first registering unit configured to register the identification of the tire air pressure sensor device in the memory in response to the receive of the unlikely signal.