Patent ID: 8511332
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A valve of a snap-in type intended to be mounted directly on a rim of a vehicle wheel fitted with a tubeless tire; said valve being secured to a hole in the rim through which the valve passes axially by the intermediary of a groove, produced at a base of a bulb of the valve, said bulb extended by a rubbery coating of an internal nozzle of the valve; said groove cooperating elastically with the hole in the rim, on the periphery of which said groove becomes housed, according to a longitudinal axis XX′ of the valve, a reduction of the bulb being created by reducing the mass or the volume of the bulb, consequently lower, in a region of the bulb located under said longitudinal axis, directed toward an interior of the rim, consequently different by comparison with a region of the bulb located above the said longitudinal axis, toward an exterior of the rim, in order to define an asymmetric valve; said reduction of the bulb taking place in the vicinity of the groove, intended to cooperate with the hole in the rim; and said valve comprising means of indexing in such a way as to direct said reduction toward a bottom of the rim.