MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE

• US 20090173422A1
• Filed: 11/22/2006
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Furukawa, Makoto, Ichikawa, Yoshihiko, Watanabe, Yoichi, Utsumi, Atsuo
• Application Number:
  US12/097,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20090173422A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 152/510
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0493 for attachment on the tyre

Abstract

A electronic device is mounted on a circumferential surface of an inner liner by tucking first, second and third edges of a device plate between a first holding plane of a first guide tab and a surface of a holder plate, between a second holding plane of a second guide tab and the surface of the holder plate, and between a third holding plane of a third guide tab and the surface of the holder plate. The electronic device can be stably-mounted over the long term without difficulty and can be removed from the circumferential surface of the inner liner without difficulty.

Claims

1. A mounting structure of an electronic device, in which the electronic device provided with a device plate composed of a rigid material at the bottom thereof is mounted on an inner liner of a pneumatic tire, comprising:

a holder plate which is composed of a rigid material and fixed on a surface of the inner liner directly or indirectly;

a first guide tab which is integrally provided with the device plate and has a first holding plane on an inward side thereof for tucking a first edge of the device plate in combination with a surface of the holder plate to hold the first edge slidably in a prescribed direction and in an opposed direction to prescribed direction; and

a second guide tab which is integrally provided with the device plate and has a second holding plane on an inward side thereof for tucking a second edge of the device plate, which is parallel to the first edge of the device plate, in combination with the surface of the holder plate to hold the second edge slidably in the prescribed direction and in the opposed direction,

wherein

an insertion space into which the device plate is inserted is sectioned by the surface of the holder plate, the first holding plane and the second holding plane, and

the structure further comprises

a first movement restraint means for restricting a movement of the device plate being inserted within the insertion space beyond a predetermined set position toward the prescribed direction and

a second movement restraint means which can be transformed between a restraint mode for restricting a movement of the device plate had been set in the predetermined set position toward the opposed direction and a release mode for releasing the restraint mode.

2. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the first movement restraint means is integrally formed on the holder plate as a third guide tab having a third holding plane on an inward side thereof for tucking a third edge of the device plate perpendicular to the first edge of the device plate.

3. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the second movement restraint means is integrally formed on the holder plate or the device plate as a stopper capable of being transformed by an elastic deformation thereof between the restraint mode and the release mode.

4. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the first and second guide tabs extend a tire lateral direction, respectively.

9. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 1 or 5, further comprises a rubber base adhered on the surface of the inner liner,

wherein the holder plate is adhered on a surface of the rubber base.

10. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 9, wherein, at vulcanizing a raw tire,

the rubber base is vulcanization-adhered on the surface of the inner liner, and

a back surface of the holder plate is vulcanization-adhered on the surface of the rubber base.

11. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claims 1 or 5, wherein the rigid material is light alloy metal.

12. A pneumatic tire comprising the mounting structure of an electronic device according to claims 1 or 5.

5. A mounting structure of an electronic device, in which the electronic device provided with a device plate composed of a rigid material at the bottom thereof is mounted on an inner liner of a pneumatic tire, comprising:

a holder plate which is composed of a rigid material and fixed on a surface of the inner liner directly or indirectly; and

guide tabs each of which is integrally provided along a circumference direction of the device plate at intervals and has a holding plane on an inward side thereof for tucking one of arch-shaped flanges projecting outward from a circumference of the device plate in combination with a surface of the holder plate,

wherein

an insertion space into which the device plate is inserted is sectioned by the surface of the holder plate and the holding planes, and

the structure further comprises

a first rotation restraint means for restricting a rotation of the device plate being inserted within the insertion space beyond a predetermined set position toward a prescribed rotational direction and

a second rotation restraint means which can be transformed between a restraint mode for restricting a rotation of the device plate had been set in the predetermined set position toward an opposed direction to the rotational direction and a release mode for releasing the restraint mode.

6. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 5, wherein

the first rotation restraint means is integrally formed on the holder plate as a wall contacting with one of the flanges when the device plate inserted within the insertion space is rotated in the rotational direction.

7. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 5, wherein

the second rotation restraint means is integrally formed on the holder plate or the device plate as a stopper capable of being transformed by an elastic deformation thereof between the restraint mode and the release mode.

8. The mounting structure of an electronic device according to claim 5, wherein

two of the guide tabs extend a tire lateral direction opposingly.