Tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly

• US 7,536,904 B1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Issued: 05/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Hung-Chih
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen; Andre J
• Assistant Examiner(s): JENKINS, JERMAINE L
• Application Number:
  US12/070,452
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 73146-1488
• US Class Current: 73/146.8
• 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

Abstract

The tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly has a valve stem, a wireless pressure detector and a fastener. The valve stem has an outer section and an inner section. The inner section is integrally and coaxially formed on the outer section and has a distal end, an outlet hole, a sidewall and at least one clamping surface. The at least one clamping surface is flat and is tangentially formed on the sidewall. To assemble, only a regular tool such as a clamp or a spanner is necessary to clamp the inner section on the clamping surface when mounting or dismounting the valve stem onto or from a rim.

Claims

1. A tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly comprising:

a valve stem being tubular and having

an outer section having a fixing nut being removably and rotatably mounted on the outer section; and

an inner section being integrally and coaxially formed on the outer section and having

a distal end having a domical surface;

an outlet hole being centrally formed through the domical surface, being longitudinally formed through the inner section and having a threaded inner surface;

a sidewall; and

at least one clamping surface being flat and being tangentially formed on the sidewall;

a wireless pressure detector being an electronic pressure detecting module for detecting air pressure of a tire and sending an electromagnetic wave signal corresponding to the air pressure and having

a mounting surface being concave and corresponding to the domical surface on the distal end of the inner section of the valve stem; and

a mounting slot being formed through the mounting surface; and

a fastener being slidably and rotatably mounted through the mounting slot and being screwed with the threaded inner surface of the outlet hole in the valve stem.

2. The tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fastener further has a hole being formed longitudinally through the fastener.

3. The tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the inner section has two clamping surfaces being paralleled with each other and formed on the sidewall.

4. The tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the inner section has two pair of the paralleling clamping surfaces being formed on the sidewall.

5. The tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the inner section has multiple pair of paralleling clamping surfaces being formed on the sidewall.