Tire and electronic device assembly

• US 8,561,659 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2009
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Original Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Inventors: Shepler, Peter Ross
• Primary Examiner(s): Maki, Steven D
• Application Number:
  US12/546,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20110041977A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,520 Days
• Field of Search: 152/152.1, 152/450
• US Class Current: 152/152.1
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0077 Directly attaching monitoring devices to tyres before or after vulcanization, e.g. microchips
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 19/002 Noise damping elements provided in the tyre structure or attached thereto, e.g. in the tyre interior
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0493 for attachment on the tyre

Abstract

A tire and electronic device assembly is disclosed, the electronic device measuring one or more tire parameters. The electronic device attaches to a cellular insert member to create a sub-assembly, the insert member having an inward surface attached on a centerline of the tire to an inward facing tire surface defining a tire cavity. The electronic device attaches to the cellular insert member between raised regions of the cellular insert member with an outward surface of the device uncovered and exposed and recessed below outward boundaries of the raised regions.

Claims

1. A tire and electronic device assembly, the tire having a cavity defined by an tire inner surface and the electronic device having at least one sensor for monitoring at least one tire parameter, the assembly comprising:

a cellular insert member having a radially outward surface attached against an inward facing tire inner surface region;

the cellular insert member having raised regions defining an outwardly exposed recess therebetween;

the electronic device having a central body extending to an outward central surface and an outwardly extending retention flange attached to and extending from the central body;

the electronic device attaching to the insert member within the recess between the raised region wherein the electronic device central body resides exposed within the outwardly exposed recess between the raised regions; and

the electronic device retention flange engages the insert member to affix the electronic device to the insert member and center the electronic device within the exposed recess between the raised regions;

wherein the electronic device comprises lateral sides and an outward surface exposed and uncovered by the cellular insert member within the recess; and

wherein the recess is a sized aperture and the electronic device is press fit through the sized aperture within the cellular insert member and with lateral sides of the electronic device positioned adjacent the raised regions of the cellular insert member and the retention flange of the electronic device abutting an underside of the insert member.

2. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the outward exposed surface of the electronic device is recessed and offset from raised extremities of the raised regions of the cellular insert member.

3. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the insert member comprises a cellular elongate strip.

4. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the inward facing tire surface is located at the tire centerline and the cellular insert member comprises an elongate foam strip dimensioned to attach to the inward facing tire surface along the tire centerline.