Fastening apparatus for fastening a measuring sensor, in particular a tire pressure sensor, and a method for mounting a measuring sensor

• US 10,525,778 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2017
• Issued: 01/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tirecheck GmbH
• Original Assignee: Alligator Ventilfabrik GmbH (Familie Steiff mit CA. 50 Gesellschaftern)
• Inventors: Markert, Christian
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mahase, Pameshanand
• Application Number:
  US15/663,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20180029427A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 2009/1828 characterised by special physical properties of the belt ply
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 2009/209 Tensile strength
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/04 mounted on the wheel or tyre
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/04985 using straps surrounding the rims
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 9/18 Structure or arrangement of belts or breakers, crown-reinforcing or cushioning layers

Abstract

The invention relates to a fastening apparatus for fastening a measuring sensor such as a tire pressure sensor within a tire cavity on a vehicle rim, in particular a utility vehicle rim, comprising a band-shaped tensioning belt which carries a receiving device for the measuring sensor. The fastening apparatus according to the invention is characterized in that the tensioning belt is produced from a material shrinking with the supply of heat, such that the tensioning belt shortens its length under heat supply.

Claims

1. A fastening apparatus for fastening a measuring sensor within a tire cavity on a vehicle rim, in particular a utility vehicle rim, comprising:

a band-shaped tensioning belt which carries a receiving device for the measuring sensor, the band-shaped tensioning belt having a length measured along a longitudinal axis of the band-shaped tensioning belt, the length arrangeable to be looped in a circumferential direction around the vehicle rim;

wherein

the tensioning belt is produced from a material shrinking under heat supply in such a way that the tensioning belt shortens its length under heat supply along the longitudinal axis of the band-shaped tensioning belt and, when looped around the vehicle rim, along the circumferential direction.

2. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt is designed as an endless belt.

3. A fastening apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the tensioning belt is made of a textile material.

4. A fastening apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the tensioning belt is elastic at least before shrinkage by heat supply.

5. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt has two opposite ends which can be connected to one another.

6. A fastening apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the tensioning belt is made of a textile material.

7. A fastening apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the tensioning belt is elastic at least before shrinkage by heat supply.

8. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt is made of a textile material.

9. A fastening apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the tensioning belt is woven or knitted.

10. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt is elastic at least before shrinkage by heat supply.

11. A fastening apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the tensioning belt is also elastic after the shrinkage by heat supply.

12. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt is made of a material which shrinks at 150°

C. or less.

13. A fastening apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the shrinkage rate of the tensioning belt is 1% or more, at 150°

C.

14. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt (1) has a homogeneous structure, in particular at a constant density and/or a constant surface weight, at least over its width which runs perpendicularly to its length.

15. A method for mounting a measuring sensor such as tire pressure sensor within a tire cavity on a vehicle rim (4), in particular a utility vehicle rim, wherein:

looping the vehicle rim (4) with a fastening apparatus according to claim 1;

subsequent shrinking of the tensioning belt by heat supply.

16. A method according to claim 15, wherein the tensioning belt is shrunk by heat supply during the operation of the vehicle rim on a vehicle.

17. A method according to claim 16, wherein the tensioning belt is shrunk only on the basis of a heat supply during the operation of the vehicle rim on a vehicle.

18. A method according to claim 15, wherein the tensioning belt is permanently shrunk by the heat supply.

19. A method according to claim 15, wherein the tensioning belt, after being mounted on the vehicle rim, is brought before an operation of the vehicle rim on a vehicle to a temperature which triggers a shrinkage of the tensioning belt and prevents later shrinkage.

20. A fastening apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tensioning belt is produced from a material permanently shrinking under heat supply.