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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2017
Itire, Llc, Rock Hill, SC (US);
Alan Clyde Lesesky, Rock Hill, SC (US);
Samuel Duke Drinkard, Gaston, SC (US);
ITIRE, LLC, Rock Hill, SC (US);
Abstract
A wireless vehicle data communications device is adapted for mounting on a wheel hub assembly of a vehicle and incorporates a self-generating electrical power supply. The vehicle data communications device includes a housing, a microprocessor located inside the housing, a signal transmitting device, a signal receiving device, an electric generator, and an energy storage and supply medium. The housing is adapted to rotate simultaneously with the wheel hub assembly when the vehicle is in motion. The electric generator include a plurality of wire coils and magnets. One of the wire coils and magnets is attached to an independently influenced components carrier, and the other of the wire coils and magnets is designed to rotate substantially simultaneously with the housing. The wire coils and magnets are arranged such that rotation of the housing relative to the components carrier generates a magnetic field and induces an electric current.