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Pressure sensor for determining tire pressure

US5090237A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 26, 1990
Grant dateFeb 25, 1992
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Expiry dateOct 26, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF16B21/16
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A pressure sensor for determining air pressure in an interior of a motor vehicle tire has a housing for extending into a recess formed in a rim wall of the tire, and an annular flange located on the housing and supporting a spring against a side of the rim wall which spring provides for clamping an outer flange portion of the pressure sensor housing against another side of the rim wall.

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