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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2005
Applicants:
Holger Behrends, Hannover, DE;
Thomas Koschnitzki, Hannover, DE;
Carsten Reimann, Geimersheim, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Continental Tevas AG & Co., Frankfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 23/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a tire module for sensing tire condition variables with a spring element () clamped on one end and a converting unit (), in which kinetic energy is converted into electric energy. The spring element () is a bar spring, torsion spring, or leaf spring, with a seismic mass () being arranged at the end of the spring element that is not clamped, and the spring element transmits acceleration jumps of the seismic mass () to the converting unit ().