A method for detecting decrease in tire air-pressure in which decrease in
internal pressure of a tire is detected on the basis of wheel speed
information obtained from wheels attached to a vehicle. The method
includes the steps of: detecting wheel speed information of the
respective tires; storing the wheel speed information of the respective
tires; obtaining a vehicle body velocity of the vehicle; obtaining
vehicle information of the vehicle during running such as driving force,
wheel torque or slip rate; calculating a judged value of decompression;
and detecting decrease in air-pressure of a tire upon calculating a
multiple correlation coefficient for the judged value between the vehicle
body velocity and the vehicle information and comparing the multiple
correlation coefficient with a specified threshold. It is possible to
accurately detect decompression of a tire.