Tire pressure sensor applicable to different wheel rims

• US 9,027,397 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2013
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hsin-Chieh Chen
• Original Assignee: Hsin-Chieh Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Hsin-Chieh
• Primary Examiner(s): Caputo, Lisa
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, JAMEL E
• Application Number:
  US13/890,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20140331759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 731/465
• US Class Current: 73/146.5
• 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

A tire pressure sensor includes a sensor device providing a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole in different angles and adapted for detecting the pressure of a tire at a wheel rim, an air valve mountable in a through hole at the wheel rim to guide the air pressure of the tire into the sensor device for sensing, and a fastener for selectively fastening the air valve to the first mounting hole or second mounting hole of the sensor device subject to the type of the wheel rim.

Claims

1. A tire pressure sensor, comprising:

a sensor device for measuring the pressure of a tire, said sensor device comprising a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole, said first mounting hole and said second mounting hole respectively extending in a different angle, the axis of said first mounting hole and the axis of said second mounting hole defining a predetermined contained angle;

an air valve mountable in a through hole of a wheel rim, said air valve comprising an air intake tip and a tubular mounting rod respectively located at two opposite ends thereof, said air valve further comprising a neck located on a middle part thereof between said air intake tip and said tubular mounting rod, and an elastic collar and an elastic stop member mounted around the periphery thereof at two opposite sides of said neck between said elastic collar and said elastic stop member, said tubular mounting rod comprising an air hole transversely disposed adjacent to said elastic stop member in air communication with an inside space of said air intake tip; and

a fastener adapted to selectively fasten said tubular mounting rod of said air valve to one of said first mounting hole and said second mounting hole of said sensor device to hold said sensor device in one of two angular positions relative to said air valve.

2. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sensor device comprises a mounting frame protruded from a connection area between a top wall and a sidewall thereof;

said first mounting hole is located in said mounting frame.

3. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 2, wherein said first mounting hole extends obliquely through said top wall and said sidewall.

4. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second mounting hole extends through a connection area between a top wall and a sidewall of said sensor device.

5. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said predetermined contained angle defined between the axis of said first mounting hole and the axis of said second mounting hole is smaller than 90-degrees.

6. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said air valve comprises a screw hole located at a distal end of said tubular mounting rod;

said fastener comprises a screw bolt fastenable to said screw hole of said air valve to selectively affix said air valve to one of said first mounting hole and said second mounting hole of said sensor device.

7. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fastener further comprises a cushion ring mounted around said screw bolt and stoppable outside said sensor device around one end of one of said first mounting hole and said second mounting hole.

8. The tire pressure sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tubular mounting rod is non-circular.