Patent ID: 6557406
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: B60C,G01L

Abstract:
A device for measuring tire pressure in a pneumatic tire of a vehicle by means of a measurement value sensor, which is acted upon by the tire pressure, at a rim base of a rim receiving a tire valve, for the pneumatic tire, outside which a receiver is associated with a measurement value sensor, wherein connected to a tire valve which has a retaining nut is an electronics or signal housing which is associated with the rim base and which has base bar portions and which includes an electronic sender means as the measurement value sensor for the tire pressure and is connected to the tire valve by a hollow screw engaging into a valve bore and being adjustable with respect thereto, said device including, provided at the inside of the retaining nut, a projection serving as a desired-rupture element and the base bar portions of the signal housing being pressed against the rim base by the hollow screw.