Device for measuring the tire pressure in a pneumatic tire of a vehicle

• US 6,557,406 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2002
• Issued: 05/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alligator Ventilfabrik GmbH (Familie Steiff mit CA. 50 Gesellschaftern)
• Original Assignee: Alligator Ventilfabrik GmbH (Familie Steiff mit CA. 50 Gesellschaftern)
• Inventors: Gabelmann, Volker
• Primary Examiner(s): OEN, WILLIAM L
• Application Number:
  US10/199,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20030015030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 292 Days
• Field of Search: 731/46, 731/462, 731/463, 731/464, 731/465, 731/468, 340/442, 340/443, 340/444, 340/445, 340/447, 200/61.22
• US Class Current: 73/146.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0408 transmitting the signals by non-mechanical means from the wheel or tyre to a vehicle body mounted receiver
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0494 Valve stem attachments positioned inside the tyre chamber
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 17/00 Devices or apparatus for measuring tyre pressure or the pressure in other inflated bodies

Abstract

In a device for measuring a tire pressure in a pneumatic tire of a vehicle by means of a measurement value sensor which is acted upon by the tire pressure and which is associated with a receiver, at the rim bed of a rim for the pneumatic tire, which rim accommodates the tire valve, connected to the tire valve which has a retaining nut is an electronics or signal housing which is associated with the rim base and which has base bar portions and which includes an electronic transmitter device as the measurement value sensor for the tire pressure and is connected to the tire valve by a hollow screw engaging into the valve bore and can be adjusted with respect thereto. Disposed at the inside of the retaining nut is projection as a desired-rupture element, and the base bar portions of the signal housing are pressed against the rim base by the hollow screw. The projection belongs to an installation portion at the inside surface of the retaining nut and is in the form of a leg provided at that inside surface.

Claims

1. A device for measuring tire pressure in a pneumatic tire of a vehicle by means of a measurement value sensor, which is acted upon by the tire pressure, at a rim base of a rim receiving a tire valve, for the pneumatic tire, outside which a receiver is associated with a measurement value sensor, wherein connected to a tire valve which has a retaining nut is an electronics or signal housing which is associated with the rim base and which has base bar portions and which includes an electronic sender means as the measurement value sensor for the tire pressure and is connected to the tire valve by a hollow screw engaging into a valve bore and being adjustable with respect thereto, said device including, provided at the inside of the retaining nut, a projection serving as a desired-rupture element and the base bar portions of the signal housing being pressed against the rim base by the hollow screw.

2. A device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the projection belongs to an installation part at an inside surface of the retaining nut.

3. A device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the projection is formed by a flange provided at an inside surface of the retaining nut.

4. A device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the flange extends peripherally at the inside surface of the retaining nut.

5. A device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the flange is sheared off when a predetermined torque is exceeded.

6. A device as set forth in claim 5, wherein said torque is between 3 Nm and 6 Nm.

7. A device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the hollow screw has a screw head and the screw head is at least partially of a polygonal periphery and is connected in positively locking relationship in regions of the periphery to the housing.

8. A device as set forth in claim 2, wherein the projection is sheared off when a predetermined torque is exceeded.

9. A device as set forth in claim 8, wherein said torque