JP2011121506A - Tire internal failure determining method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire internal failure determining method accurately determining whether or not tire internal failure by separation is caused, without having influence on behavior of a tire. <P>SOLUTION: A frequency is analyzed by extracting a time series waveform of vertical directional acceleration of a vehicle unsprung part input to a grounding surface of a tread 35 from a road surface from an output waveform of an acceleration sensor 11 installed in a knuckle 21, and a tire rotation degree level being the size of a predetermined rotation degree component is determined by converting a frequency spectrum provided by analyzing the frequency into a rotation degree spectrum by using a wheel speed, and the rotation degree level is compared with a preset threshold value, to determine whether or not the internal failure by the separation is caused in the tire 30. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for determining whether an internal failure such as separation has occurred in a running tire.

The tire has a structure in which members such as carcass plies and belts or a metal cord coated with rubber are laminated. For this reason, when an excessive load is input to the bonded portion of the member during traveling of the vehicle, a phenomenon called socketing occurs in which the cord end portion and the coating rubber are peeled off and the rubber is cracked. When the socketing generated in each part on the tire circumference is coupled, the separation develops into a separation in which the laminated members are separated.
Further, the separation between the belts causes the both ends of the belt in the width direction to rise, and as a result, the steering stability performance may deteriorate.

When an internal failure such as separation occurs in the tire, heat generation at the failure location increases, and the temperature near the failure location increases.
Therefore, a method of measuring the temperature of a running tire by embedding a temperature sensor in a tire shoulder portion where an internal failure is likely to occur, and detecting an internal failure of the tire from this temperature change (for example, see Patent Document 1) A magnet and an annular magnetic path in which a temperature-sensitive ferrite having a Curie point in a predetermined temperature range is disposed at a predetermined pitch along a circumferential direction and an annular magnetic path intersecting the annular portion is formed on a vehicle body side A coil wound around the outer periphery of the tire is provided to measure the electromotive force excited in the coil due to the change in magnetic flux density accompanying the rotation of the tire, and indirectly detecting the deformation of the shoulder portion of the tire from this measured waveform, A method for detecting an internal failure is proposed (for example, see Patent Document 2).

In addition, a method for detecting an internal failure of a tire by directly detecting a deformation of a shoulder portion of a running tire has been proposed (for example, see Patent Document 3).
Specifically, an acceleration sensor that measures the acceleration in the circumferential direction of the tire and an acceleration sensor that measures the acceleration in the width direction of the tire are embedded in the tire shoulder portion, and the tire circumferential portion of the running tire shoulder portion is embedded in the tire shoulder portion. After detecting the deformation amount and the deformation amount in the tire width direction, using these two deformation amounts, the time series deformation of the tire shoulder acceleration is expressed in the tire circumferential direction and the tire width direction in the x-axis and y-axis, respectively. It is expressed as a trajectory in the Cartesian coordinate system, and the size and form of deformation of the tire shoulder portion are detected from this trajectory to detect an internal failure of the tire.

JP 2005-67447 A JP 2004-69462 A JP 2007-191038 A

However, in the conventional method for detecting an internal tire failure, the sensor is embedded in the rubber of the tire shoulder near the belt end where separation occurs, so the boundary surface between the sensor and the surrounding rubber is a new rubber. There was a risk of causing tire failure by becoming the core of cracks.
In addition, when the sensor is disposed at the belt end portion where a large stress acts when the tire rolls, the belt end portion is broken and the possibility of causing separation is high.
Conversely, when a sensor is installed at a location away from the failure location, the detection sensitivity may be reduced.

  The present invention has been made in view of conventional problems, and a tire internal failure determination method capable of accurately determining whether or not a tire internal failure due to separation has occurred without affecting the behavior of the tire. The purpose is to provide.

  As a result of diligent investigation, the present inventor has found that when an internal failure of the tire such as a separation occurs, the tread failure location swells and deforms during traveling, and when the deformed portion reaches the tread, an input is generated under the spring. As a result, the specific rotational order level of the vibration under the vehicle spring is greatly increased compared to a normal tire. Therefore, the rotational order level is obtained by detecting the vibration under the vehicle spring during traveling. The present invention has been found that if the difference between the order level and the rotation order level of a normal tire is used as a measure of tire internal failure, it can be accurately determined whether or not a tire internal failure has occurred. .

That is, the present invention is a method for determining whether or not a tire internal failure such as separation has occurred in a running tire, the acceleration under the vehicle spring being run by an acceleration sensor attached under the vehicle spring. A second step of detecting a wheel speed, a third step of calculating a tire rotation order level of the acceleration from the detected acceleration and wheel speed, and the calculated A fourth step of comparing a tire rotation order level with a preset threshold value and determining that a failure has occurred inside the tire when the tire rotation order level exceeds the threshold value. And
“Separation” generally refers to a phenomenon in which the rubber and belt constituting the tire and the rubber and the rubber are peeled and damaged, but the socketing phenomenon in which the cord end and the coating rubber are peeled is also included in the “separation”. Shall be.

The tire rotation order level refers to the magnitude of the rotation order component in the rotation order spectrum, which is a vibration spectrum when the horizontal axis is the tire rotation order. Further, a rotation order component that becomes one cycle when the tire makes one rotation is called a rotation first component, and a rotation order component that becomes n cycles is called a rotation n-order component.
The rotation order spectrum is a method of converting a vibration spectrum (horizontal axis; frequency, vertical axis; vibration level) obtained by frequency analysis of tire vibration into a vibration spectrum in which the horizontal axis is the rotation order using the tire rotation speed. Alternatively, there is a method of performing a fast Fourier transform on a sampled signal by synchronizing the vibration of a rotating body such as a tire with the tire rotation speed.
Since the phase of the periodic component with respect to the rotation angle is fixed in the tire rotation order level, the vibration level can be detected with high accuracy compared to the vibration level obtained by frequency analysis measured in units of time.

  Thus, for example, a predetermined rotation order level of a rotation order spectrum of an acceleration waveform output from an acceleration sensor attached to a component (vehicle unsprung component) arranged under a vehicle spring such as a knuckle or a wheel hub, By comparing the calculated threshold value and determining whether or not a tire internal failure has occurred, there is no need to embed a sensor in the tire, so the tire behavior is not affected. Since it can be reliably determined whether or not an internal failure has occurred, the traveling safety of the vehicle can be improved.

The present invention further includes a step of detecting a peak position of the tire rotation order level, and a step of estimating a magnitude of a failure occurring inside the tire from the detected peak position. And
In other words, when the separation expands in the tire circumferential direction, the vibration peak in the frequency spectrum also moves to the low frequency side. Therefore, if a position where the rotational order level increases (peak position) is detected, a tire internal failure will occur. In addition, it is possible to determine whether or not the vehicle is faulty, and it is possible to estimate the magnitude of the failure, so that the traveling safety of the vehicle can be further improved.

  The summary of the invention does not list all necessary features of the present invention, and sub-combinations of these feature groups can also be the invention.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the tire internal failure determination apparatus which concerns on this Embodiment. It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of a tire. It is a figure which shows the generation | occurrence | production location of a separation. It is a schematic diagram which shows the deformation | transformation state of a tire tread. It is a figure which shows the input impulse signal accompanying a deformation | transformation of a tire tread. It is a figure which shows the result of having performed the rotation order analysis of the input impulse signal. It is a figure which shows an example of the rotation order spectrum obtained by carrying out the rotation order analysis of the acceleration waveform of the up-down direction in the vehicle spring lower part. It is a flowchart which shows the tire internal failure determination method. It is a figure which shows an example of a rotation order spectrum. It is a graph in which the tire rotation order level when a normal tire is obtained in advance, the tire rotation order level when a faulty tire is installed, and the threshold rotation order level are plotted for each rotation order. . It is a figure which shows an example of the rotation order spectrum obtained by carrying out the rotation order analysis of the width direction acceleration waveform of the vehicle spring lower part. It is a figure which shows the result of having carried out the rotation order analysis of the input impulse signal when this separation expanded in the tire circumferential direction, and this input impulse signal. It is a figure which shows transition of the rotation order level by the magnitude | size of a separation. It is a figure which shows the other structure of a rotation order level extraction means.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a tire internal failure determination device 10.
The tire internal failure determination device 10 includes an acceleration sensor 11, a wheel speed sensor 12, an acceleration waveform extraction means 13, a rotation order level extraction means 14, a storage means 15, a failure determination means 16, and an alarm means 17. .
As shown in FIG. 1, the acceleration sensor 11 is attached to the knuckle 21 and is input to the tire 30 from the road surface 40 and transmitted to the knuckle 21 via the wheel 22 and the wheel hub 23 to which the tire 30 is attached. Detect tire vibration. In this example, the detection direction of the acceleration sensor 11 is the vertical direction that is a direction perpendicular to the road surface 40.

The knuckle 21 is a non-rotating side part (vehicle unsprung part) of the wheel unit 20 connected via a bearing to a wheel hub 23 that rotates together with the wheel 22, and a brake device (not shown) is mounted on the knuckle 21. The knuckle 21 is connected to upper and lower arms 25 and 26 of a vehicle suspension system including a suspension member 24 via buffer members 27 and 28 such as rubber bushes.
If the acceleration sensor 11 is attached to a member such as the upper and lower arms 25 and 26 that is connected to the wheel 22 via the buffer members 27 and 28, the tire vibration detection accuracy is achieved by the damper effect of the buffer members 27 and 28. Decreases. Accordingly, the acceleration sensor 11 is attached to a part that is located on the wheel 22 side of the cushioning members 27 and 28, such as the knuckle 21 and the wheel hub 23, even under the vehicle spring. The vibration propagated downward can be detected with high accuracy.

  The wheel speed sensor 12 detects the rotational speed of the wheel (hereinafter referred to as the wheel speed). In this example, a rotor that has a gear formed on the outer peripheral portion thereof and rotates together with the wheel, a yoke that constitutes the rotor and a magnetic circuit, and And a coil for detecting a change in magnetic flux of the magnetic circuit, and a known electromagnetic induction type wheel speed sensor for detecting the rotation angle of the wheel is used. The yoke and the coil are attached to the knuckle 21. As the wheel speed sensor 12, a wheel speed sensor having another configuration such as a combination of a ring multipolar magnet and a magnetoresistive element may be used. Alternatively, the rotational speed of a transmission (not shown) may be detected and used as the wheel speed.

The acceleration waveform extraction means 13 extracts a time series waveform (hereinafter referred to as an acceleration waveform) of the vertical acceleration under the vehicle spring from the output signal of the acceleration sensor 11.
The rotation order level extraction means 14 includes a frequency analysis means 14a, a rotation order spectrum calculation means 14b, and a level extraction means 14c.
The frequency analysis unit 14a performs frequency analysis on the acceleration waveform extracted by the acceleration waveform extraction unit 13, and obtains a frequency spectrum (vibration spectrum) of the acceleration waveform in which the horizontal axis is the frequency and the vertical axis is the magnitude of the acceleration.
The rotation order spectrum calculation means 14b converts the frequency spectrum of the acceleration waveform into a rotation order spectrum in which the horizontal axis is the rotation order and the vertical axis is the magnitude of the acceleration, using the wheel speed detected by the wheel speed sensor 12. .
The level extraction means 14c detects and extracts a rotation order level that is a magnitude of a predetermined rotation order component set in advance from the rotation order spectrum.

The storage unit 15 stores and stores a threshold value used in a failure determination unit 16 described later. The threshold value is preferably set to a value that is 3 dB to 7 dB larger than the tire rotation order level obtained when a normal tire is obtained in advance.
The failure determination means 16 compares the rotation order level of the tire 30 extracted by the rotation order level extraction means 14 with the threshold value stored in the storage means 15, and causes an internal failure such as separation to the running tire 30. When it is determined whether or not an internal failure has occurred, a signal that a tire internal failure has occurred (failure signal) is output to the alarm means 17.
The alarm means 17 is installed in the vicinity of the driver's seat, and when a failure signal is input, causes the driver to recognize that a tire internal failure has occurred by turning on or blinking an alarm LED. The alarm buzzer may be driven to recognize that a tire internal failure has occurred by an alarm sound, or the alarm buzzer and the LED may be used in combination.

Next, a tire internal failure will be described.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of the tire 30. In the figure, 31 is a bead portion, 31C is a bead core, 32 is a carcass layer, 33 is a first belt layer, 34 is a second belt layer, 35 is a tread, and 36 is an inner liner.
The carcass layer 32 is a member constituting the skeleton of the tire 30 and is provided so as to straddle a pair of bead cores 31 </ b> C disposed in the bead portion 31 in a toroidal shape. Two belt layers (first and second belt layers) 33 and 34 are disposed outside the crown portion of the carcass layer 32 in the tire radial direction. The first and second belt layers 33 and 34 are respectively arranged such that steel cords or cords made by twisting organic fibers intersect at an angle of 20 ° to 70 ° with respect to the equator direction. . The first belt layer 33 disposed on the inner side in the tire radial direction is formed wider than the second belt layer 34 disposed on the outer side in the tire radial direction. The extension direction of the cord of the second belt layer 34 intersects with each other.
The socketing in which the cord end portion and the coating rubber peel and the rubber cracks mainly occurs at the end portions of the first and second belt layers 33 and 34, and when this progresses, as shown in FIG. In addition, the tire shoulder portion 37 develops into a separation in which the first belt layer 33 and the second belt layer 34 are separated.

Here, if separation occurs and the end portion of the first belt layer 33 and the end portion of the second belt layer 34 are separated, there is a force for restraining each other between the two belt layers 33 and 34. Therefore, deformation due to the belt angle appears in the tread 35. This deformation is a deformation in which the tread 35 spreads in the tire radial direction and the tire width direction as in the deformation portion indicated by the arrow in FIG. Accordingly, an input is generated from the road surface 40 to the tire 30 at one place on the circumference (a place where the tread 35 is deformed).
The input generated at one place on the circumference is an impulse signal as shown in FIG. In FIG. 5, the horizontal axis represents time [msec], and the vertical axis represents input level [au]. When this input impulse is subjected to rotational order analysis, an input rotational order spectrum as shown in FIG. 6 is obtained. In FIG. 6, the horizontal axis represents the rotation order, and the vertical axis represents the input level [dB]. Thus, the input impulse is an input having a peak at a specific rotational order n (here, n = 10, 20, 30 vicinity) (note that the peak near n = 10 is caused by road surface unevenness or the like. It is difficult to see due to irregular vibrations).
When such an input is generated in the tire 30, the tire 30 vibrates and this vibration propagates under the vehicle spring.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a rotation order spectrum obtained by analyzing the rotation order of the acceleration waveform in the vertical direction at the lower part of the vehicle spring detected by the acceleration sensor 11 attached to the knuckle 21, and the broken line indicates the rotation of a normal tire. The order spectrum and the solid line are the rotation order spectrum of the failed tire. In the failed tire, as shown by the arrow in the figure, a remarkable peak occurs in the vicinity of the 10th rotation order. The data in FIG. 7 is data at a vehicle speed of 40 km / hr. The vehicle speed was determined from the output of the wheel speed sensor 12.
Therefore, when a predetermined rotation order level in the rotation order spectrum of the normal tire is compared with the same rotation order level of the failed tire, and the difference exceeds a predetermined magnitude, an internal failure such as separation occurs in the tire 30. Can be determined.

Next, a method for determining an internal failure of a tire using the tire internal failure determination device 10 will be described with reference to a flowchart of FIG.
First, the acceleration sensor 11 detects the vibration in the vertical direction of the vehicle unsprung portion (knuckle 21) of the running tire 30 as unsprung acceleration information, and outputs the detection signal to the acceleration waveform extracting means 13 (step S11). The wheel speed sensor 12 detects the wheel speed, which is tire rotation information, and outputs the detection signal to the rotation order spectrum calculation means 14b provided in the rotation order level extraction means 14 (step S12).
Next, the acceleration waveform extraction means 13 extracts an acceleration waveform, which is a time series waveform of acceleration in the vertical direction below the vehicle spring, from the output waveform of the acceleration sensor 11, and outputs this to the rotation order level extraction means 14 ( Step S13).
The rotation order level extraction means 14 performs frequency analysis on the extracted acceleration waveform to obtain a frequency spectrum (step S14), and then converts the frequency spectrum into a rotation order spectrum as shown in FIG. 9 using the wheel speed. (Step S15). Then, rotation order levels up to the 20th order are extracted from this rotation order spectrum (step S16). In FIG. 9, the broken line is the rotation order spectrum of the normal tire, and the solid line is the rotation order spectrum of the failed tire. In the failed tire, as shown by the circles in the figure, a remarkable peak occurs in the vicinity of the 10th rotation order. The data in FIG. 7 is data at a vehicle speed of 40 km / hr.

Next, the extracted tire rotation order level is compared with the threshold value stored in advance in the storage unit 15 to check whether the tire rotation order level exceeds the threshold value (step S17). If the tire rotation order level exceeds the threshold value, it is determined that a failure has occurred inside the tire, and a failure signal is sent to the alarm means 17 to inform the driver that an internal failure has occurred in the tire 30. This is notified to alert the driver (step S18). If it is determined that an internal failure due to separation has not occurred in the tire 30, the process returns to step S11 and the operations from step S11 to step S17 are repeated.
FIG. 10 plots, for each rotation order, a tire rotation order level obtained when a normal tire is obtained in advance, a tire rotation order level obtained when a failed tire is attached, and a rotation order level serving as a threshold value. In the graph, ◆ in the figure is data for normal tires, ■ in the figure is data for failed tires, and ▲ in the figure is the threshold value.
Thus, by setting a threshold value that is higher than the data for normal tires for each rotation order, it is determined that a failure has occurred inside the tire when the calculated tire rotation order level exceeds the threshold value. By doing so, it can be accurately calculated whether or not the tire is a faulty tire. This threshold is preferably set at a position that is higher by about 3 dB to 7 dB than the data for normal tires. If the difference between the threshold value and the normal tire data is less than 3 dB, it is preferable from the viewpoint of safety, but there is a problem that the number of cases where an alarm is issued even when separation does not occur. On the other hand, if the difference between the threshold value and the normal tire data exceeds 7 dB, separation cannot be detected at the beginning of the separation. Therefore, the threshold value is preferably 3 dB to 7 dB higher than the normal tire data.

  Thus, according to the present embodiment, the acceleration sensor 11 attached to the knuckle 21, the wheel speed sensor 12 that detects the rotational speed of the wheel, and the vertical acceleration under the vehicle spring from the output signal of the acceleration sensor 11. Acceleration waveform extracting means 13 for extracting the time series waveform and extracting the time series waveform of the vertical acceleration for frequency analysis and converting the frequency spectrum obtained by the frequency analysis into a rotation order spectrum using the wheel speed The rotation order level extraction means 14 for obtaining the rotation order level which is the magnitude of the predetermined rotation order component, the storage means 15 for storing a threshold for failure determination, the rotation order level and a preset threshold In comparison, the tire internal reason is provided with failure determination means 16 for determining whether or not an internal failure due to separation has occurred in the tire 30. Since the determination device 10 is used to determine whether or not an internal failure due to separation has occurred in the tire 30, whether or not the tire internal failure due to separation has occurred without affecting the behavior of the tire. Can be determined.

Moreover, since it is possible to determine a tire internal failure with a single acceleration sensor 11, the apparatus can be simplified.
Further, when it is determined that an internal failure due to separation has occurred in the tire 30, the alarm means 17 notifies the driver that the internal failure has occurred in the tire 30 so as to call the driver attention. Therefore, the running stability of the vehicle can be improved.

In the above embodiment, it is determined whether or not an internal failure has occurred in the tire 30 from the rotational order spectrum of the vibration in the vertical direction of the vehicle spring lower part. However, the vibration in the width direction (vehicle width direction) of the vehicle spring lower part is determined. It is also possible to determine whether or not an internal failure has occurred in the tire 30 using the rotation order spectrum of the vibration of the rotation order spectrum or the rotation order spectrum of the vibration in the front-rear direction.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of the rotational order spectrum of the width direction vibration of the lower part of the vehicle spring. As shown in FIG. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether an internal failure has occurred in the tire 30 or not.

In the above example, whether or not separation has occurred is determined from the rotation order level. However, it is also possible to estimate the magnitude of the separation by detecting a position where the rotation order level increases.
When the separation expands in the tire circumferential direction, the input time per one turn of the failure portion becomes longer, so that the width of the input impulse signal increases as shown by the solid line in FIG. In addition, the broken line of the figure is an input impulse signal before separation expands in the circumferential direction.
When this input impulse signal is subjected to rotational order analysis, the input peak moves to the low frequency side. As a result, as shown in FIGS. 13A to 13C, the vibration peak in the frequency spectrum also moves to the low frequency side.
When the separation size is expressed as (width direction × circumferential direction) using the width direction length and the circumferential direction length shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 13 (a) shows that the separation size is (55 × 100). ) Tires. FIG. 13B shows a tire with a separation size of (55 × 300), and FIG. 13C shows a tire with a separation size of (55 × 1000). The unit of the separation size is [mm], and 1000 [mm] is the length of the tire half circumference.
As shown in FIGS. 13 (a) to (c), the peak position is in the vicinity of 50 Hz in the tire having a separation size of 100 mm in the circumferential direction, but the peak is in the vicinity of 35 Hz in the tire having a circumferential size of 300 mm. Has moved on. And it turns out that the peak is in the vicinity of 5 Hz in a tire having a circumferential size of half a circle.
Since each of the data is data with a constant wheel speed, it is expected that the rotational order at the peak is also small in the rotational order spectrum of the acceleration of the unsprung vibration.
Therefore, the size of the separation can be estimated by detecting the position where the rotational order level becomes large in the rotational order spectrum of the acceleration of the unsprung vibration.

  In the above example, the acceleration waveform extracted by the acceleration waveform extraction means 13 is frequency-analyzed using the frequency analysis means 14a and the rotation order spectrum calculation means 14b to obtain a frequency spectrum. As shown in FIG. 14, a rotation order level extraction means 14Z provided with a rotation signal generation means 13Z and a rotation order ratio analysis means 15Z is provided, and the acceleration waveform is converted into a tire rotation speed. After sampling in a synchronized manner, a rotation order spectrum is obtained by performing a fast Fourier transform, and by the level extraction means 14c having the same configuration as that of the embodiment, a rotation having a predetermined rotation order component size set in advance from the rotation order spectrum. The order level may be detected and extracted.

The rotation signal generation means 13Z generates and outputs a pulse signal that rises at the zero crossing point of the output of the wheel speed sensor 12. The rotation signal generation means 13Z can detect the wheel speed by counting the number of pulses. The acceleration waveform extracted by the acceleration waveform extraction means 13 is sampled using the pulse signal output from 13Z as a sampling clock. Since the sampling clock is synchronized with the rotation speed, if the tire vibration detected by the acceleration sensor 11 is sampled using this sampling clock, the number of samples per rotation is constant regardless of the wheel speed.
The rotation order ratio analyzing unit 15Z includes a low-pass filter 15x, a sampling unit 15y, and an analyzing unit 15z. The low-pass filter 15x removes high-frequency components of tire vibration detected by the acceleration sensor 11, and suppresses the occurrence of aliasing phenomenon (turnback) in the rotation order ratio analysis.
The sampling unit 15y samples the tire vibration detected by the acceleration sensor 11 using the sampling clock output from the rotation signal generation unit 13Z.
The analysis unit 15z obtains a rotation order spectrum by performing FFT processing on the sampled vibration waveform of the tire vibration.

As shown in FIG. 3, a tire in which a tire internal failure has occurred (failed tire) and a new tire (normal tire) are prepared, and these tires are respectively attached to the left front wheel of the test vehicle, and a vehicle spring is prepared. When the rotation order spectrum of the lower vibration was obtained, as shown in FIG. 7, it was found that a remarkable peak occurred in the vicinity of the 10th order in the failed tire.
The tire size is 225 / 55R17, and the vehicle speed is 40 km / hr. The acceleration sensor was attached to the knuckle of the left front wheel so that the detection direction was the vehicle vertical direction.
Since the peak appearing in the rotation order spectrum of the failed tire is 10 dB or more larger than that of the normal tire, it was confirmed that the tire internal failure due to the progress of separation can be determined from the rotation order spectrum of the tire.
In addition, when tires having different sizes in the circumferential direction of the separation were mounted on the test vehicle and the vibration spectrum of the lower part of the vehicle spring was obtained, as shown in FIGS. It was also confirmed that the peak moved to the low frequency side as it expanded in the direction.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated using embodiment, the technical scope of this invention is not limited to the range as described in the said embodiment. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications or improvements can be added to the embodiment. It is apparent from the claims that the embodiments added with such changes or improvements can also be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to accurately detect the destruction inside the tire without affecting the behavior of the tire, so it is possible to detect a tire failure in advance and improve the safety of the vehicle. Can do.

10 tire internal failure determination device, 11 acceleration sensor, 12 wheel speed sensor,
13 acceleration waveform extracting means, 14 rotational order level extracting means, 15 storage means,
16 failure determination means, 17 alarm means,
20 wheel part, 21 knuckle, 22 wheel, 23 wheel hub,
24 suspension member, 25, 26 arm, 27, 28 buffer member,
30 tires, 31 bead parts, 31C bead core, 32 carcass layers,
33 first belt layer, 34 second belt layer, 35 tread,
36 Inner liner.

Claims (2)

A first step of detecting acceleration under traveling of the vehicle by means of an acceleration sensor attached under the spring of the vehicle;
A second step of detecting wheel speed;
A third step of calculating a tire rotation order level of the acceleration from the detected acceleration and wheel speed;
A fourth step of comparing the calculated tire rotation order level with a preset threshold and determining that a failure has occurred inside the tire when the tire rotation order level exceeds the threshold; A tire internal failure determination method comprising: Detecting a peak position of the tire rotation order level;
The tire internal failure determination method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of estimating a magnitude of a failure occurring inside the tire from the detected peak position.

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