Patent 7468655 was granted and assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An aircraft tire condition monitoring system includes a reader mounted in the fuselage of an aircraft and an antenna that defines a peripheral boundary proximate the circumference of a tire of the aircraft. The antenna is electrically coupled to the reader to facilitate the communication of signals from a transponder located within the tire. The antenna may be located within the tire, or it may be located on the aircraft fuselage.