Abstract: Methods of reducing oxygen in tire air chambers with an oxygen scavenger that contains diethylhydroxylamine are disclosed herein. Compositions including diethylhydroxylamine for reducing oxygen in tire air chambers are disclosed herein. Wheel assemblies including compositions containing diethylhydroxylamine for reducing oxygen in tire air chambers are disclosed herein.
Abstract: A remote tire measurement system (82) periodically transmits interrogation pulses from controller (88) with transceiver (84) that are detected by telemeters (70). The telemeters will not respond unless the remote measurement system is within communication range of the telemeter, thereby forming a safety perimeter around a vehicle (102). The remote system receives the tire inflation gas parameter data and/or a coded data response and annunciates a safety zone warning.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 21, 2004
Publication date:
May 7, 2009
Applicant:
FULLER BROS., INC.
Inventors:
Timothy C. Fuller, Paul A. Comfort, Melvin M. Priday
Abstract: A tire inflation gas telemetry system (30) is installed inside a tire (174) mounted to a wheel (170) and is placed within a protective housing (100) having pneumatic cylinders (116, 126) with piston rods (128, 130) that are extended or retracted by tire inflation gas pressure changes. The housing is suspended by a cable (156) slung around the wheel. The cable is slack or taut depending on motion of a first piston rod, and the telemetry system is pivoted into alternate protected and operational orientations by motion of a second piston rod. When the tire is uninflated, the cable is slack, and the telemetry system is pivoted into the protected orientation. As the tire is inflated, the cable becomes taut causing the housing to be drawn tightly against the wheel, and the telemetry system is pivoted into the operational orientation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 28, 2005
Assignee:
Fuller Bros Inc.
Inventors:
Timothy C. Fuller, Melvin M. Priday, Alan J. Walters