3Denso Corporation, Japan
It is difficult for today’s motorists to detect a loss of tire pressure since a gradual tire pressure loss occurring on four wheels at the same time (natural leak) accounts for a large proportion of the tire pressure loss incident.
To help overcome this difficulty, we have developed a tire pressure monitoring system using the wheel-speed sensor signal of the ABS system. The monitoring system is low in cost and is capable of detecting the simultaneous air pressure loss on four wheels.