Pneumatic tire having a film-shaped electronic device and method of mounting the film-shaped electronic device

• US 7,201,813 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2003
• Issued: 04/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Shimura, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Fischer; Justin R.
• Application Number:
  US10/516,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20060174985A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 156/60
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0072 Attaching fasteners to tyres, e.g. patches, in order to connect devices to tyres
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0077 Directly attaching monitoring devices to tyres before or after vulcanization, e.g. microchips
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 13/001 Decorating, marking or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 19/00 Tyre parts or constructions not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0493 for attachment on the tyre
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10495 Pneumatic tire or inner tube
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor

Abstract

A pneumatic tire having a film-shaped electronic device on a surface of the tire or inside the tire. The film-shaped electronic device is slidable between sheet-shaped members disposed on both surfaces of the film-shaped electronic device.

Claims

1. A pneumatic tire having a film-shaped electronic device on a surface of the tire or inside the tire, the film-shaped electronic device being slidable between sheet-shaped members disposed on both surfaces of the film-shaped electronic device,

wherein two sheet-shaped members disposed on the both surfaces have peripheries bonded to each other to thereby form a room between the two sheet-shaped members, in which the film-shaped electronic device is slidable, and

wherein the sheet-shaped members comprise a fluorine resin or respectively have an inner surface coated with such a material which permits the film-shaped electronic device to slide thereon.

2. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the film-shaped electronic device is a film-shaped transponder from which tire identification information can be read, the film-shaped transponder comprising a base film, an integrated circuit and a coil-shaped antenna, the integrated circuit and coil-shaped antenna being provided on the base film.

3. A pneumatic tire according to claim 2, wherein the film-shaped transponder is 0.2 to 0.8 mm in thickness.

4. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the sheet-shaped members are formed of a resin which has a meting point of 150°

C. or more.

5. A pneumatic tire according to claim 2, wherein the sheet-shaped members are formed of a resin which has a meting point of 150°

C. or more.

6. A pneumatic tire according to claim 3, wherein the sheet-shaped members are formed of a resin which has a meting point of 150°

C. or more.

7. A pneumatic tire having a film-shaped electronic device on a surface of the tire or inside the tire, the film-shaped electronic device being slidable between sheet-shaped members disposed on both surfaces of the film-shaped electronic device,

wherein the film-shaped electronic device is a film-shaped transponder from which tire identification information can be read, the film-shaped transponder comprising a base film, an integrated circuit and a coil-shaped antenna, the integrated circuit and coil-shaped antenna being provided on the base film, and

wherein the film-shaped transponder is placed on an outer surface of the tire, at least one of the two sheet-shaped members positioned on the front surface side thereof being formed of a transparent material, information identical to the tire identification information being shown on the front surface of the film-shaped transponder.

8. A pneumatic tire according to claim 7 wherein the film-shaped transponder is 0.2 to 0.8 mm in thickness.

9. A pneumatic tire according to claim 7 wherein the sheet-shaped members are formed of a resin which has a meting point of 150°

C. or more.

10. A method of mounting a film-shaped electronic device, comprising:

placing a film-shaped electronic device between sheet-shaped members, the sheet-shaped members being formed of fluorocarbon resin, or having inner surfaces coated with a material that enables the film-shaped electronic device to slide between the sheet-shaped members,

adhering peripheral edges of the sheet-shaped members to each other to thereby form a film-shaped electronic device containing sheet assembly having a room between the sheet-shaped members, the film-shaped electronic device being slidably contained in the room, and fixing the film-shaped electronic device containing sheet assembly inside or to a surface of an uncured tire, or to a surface of a cured tire.