Patent ID: 8988209
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: B60C

Abstract:
1. A device for monitoring a vehicle wheel, configured for detecting and transmitting, by a wireless connection, information relating to at least one characteristic quantity of the status of the wheel, the device having a casing housing a circuit adapted to transmit said information, the casing being designed for coupling to an end portion of body made of electrically conductive material of a tyre valve of the wheel, wherein, in an installed condition of the valve and of the device, the end portion of the electrically conductive body of the valve extends at least partly within a tyre mounting channel and the casing of the device is secured to said end portion, wherein the casing includes a casing body integrating interconnection element prearranged to obtain both an electric connection of the circuit to the end portion of the electrically conductive body of the valve and a mechanical coupling of the casing to the end portion of the electrically conductive body of the valve; wherein the casing body is made of electrically insulating material and the interconnection element comprises an electrically conducted insert, integrated in the casing body and configured to obtain at least in part the said mechanical coupling and the said electrical connection; wherein the electrically insulating material is a mouldable plastic material and the casing body is over-moulded to or co-moulded with the insert such that the insert is embedded within electrically insulating material of the casing body, wherein the insert defines mechanical coupling element and electrical connection element protruding from the electrically insulating material of the casing body in which the insert is embedded; and wherein the mechanical coupling element is configured to be at least hooked or push-coupled within a hollow cavity, or seat extending inside the end portion of the electrically conductive body of the valve.