Tire valve

• US 4,998,092 A
• Filed: 09/21/1989
• Issued: 03/05/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation, Pacific Industrial Company Limited 100 Kyutokucho Ogaki-Shi Gifu-Ken Japan
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation, Pacific Industrial Company Limited
• Inventors: Ohno, Kiyoshi, Iinuma, Kazuki, Takenaka, Kazuo, Nakao, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US07/410,390
• Time in Patent Office: 530 Days
• Field of Search: 340/445, 340/442, 340/448, 73/146.8, 73/146.4, 73/146.5, 116/34 R, 116/34 A, 116/34 B, 200/61.22
• US Class Current: 340/445
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0406 Alarms noticeable from outside the vehicle, e.g. indication in side mirror, front light or audible alarms B60C23/0403, B60C23/0405 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0428 using passive wheel mounted resonance circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0496 Valve stem attachments positioned outside of the tyre chamber
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/20 Devices for measuring or signalling tyre temperature only

Abstract

In a tire valve suitable for detecting the pressure and temperature in a tire, the strain of the tire wheel and the like, a conductive core body of a valve core is electrically insulated from a conductive shaft, and, to a pedestal having a 1st electrode electrically shaft and a 2nd electrode electrically connected to a conductive valve stem via a core spring, a sensor having two sensor electrodes connected with the 1st and 2nd electrodes respectively is fixed.

Claims

1. A tire valve comprising:

a conductive valve stem fitted in the tire wheel; and

a valve core inserted into said valve stem;

said valve core having

a barrel an electrically conductive core pin which is electrically insulated from said valve stem,

a pedestal to which a 1st electrode electrically connected to said core pin and a 2nd electrode electrically connected to a spring are fitted, and

a sensor having two sensor electrodes connected with said 1st electrode and 2nd electrode respectively and being fixed to said pedestal,

said spring providing resilience to said pedestal and electrically connecting said 2nd electrode to said valve stem.

2. A tire valve according to claim 1 wherein a valve cap is also provided, said valve cap is equipped with an electric circuit and, when said valve cap is fitted onto said valve stem said circuit is electrically connected with said sensor through said core pin and said valve stem, for sending outside of the tire valve an electric signal corresponding to the functioning state of said sensor.

3. A tire valve according to claim 2 wherein said electric circuit is a resonance circuit for resonating with external radiant electromagnetic waves.

4. A tire valve according to claim 1 wherein said barrel is electrically conductive and said core pin is electrically insulated from said barrel.

5. A tire valve according to claim 4 wherein a valve cap is also provided, said valve cap is equipped with an electric circuit and, when said valve cap is fitted onto said valve stem, said circuit is electrically connected with said sensor through said core and said valve stem for sending outside of the tire valve an electric signal corresponding to the functioning state of said sensor.