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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2016
Alligator Ventilfabrik Gmbh, Giengen, DE;
Renato Palaoro, Heidenheim, DE;
WEGMANN AUTOMOTIVE GMBH, Veitshochheim, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a tyre valve for a pneumatic tyre of a vehicle, having a valve stem extending from the air inlet end to the air outlet end and having an outside thread on its outside circumference and a collar at its air outlet end for a rim well carrying the pneumatic tyre and a fastening thread for an air pressure sensor or other device to be fastened to the valve stem and positioned inside the pneumatic tyre, exhibiting a union nut with an inside thread for screwing onto the outside thread in order to clamp the rim base between the union nut and the collar, with the valve stem being inserted through a rim bore, with a plastic valve cap, with a deformable element located on the outside circumference of the valve stem and/or an inside circumference of the union nut. The tyre valve according to the invention is characterised in that the union nut and, if the deformation element is located on the inside circumference of the union nut, also the deformation element, exhibit a minimum inside diameter that exceeds the maximum outside diameter of the valve cap.