Patent ID: 7164265

Claim:
A bearing assembly for the hub of a motor vehicle wheel, comprising: a bearing unit with at least one rotatable race, a stationary race, and rolling bodies radially interposed between the races; a rotation sensing device with an impulse ring secured for rotation with the rotatable race by means of a rotatable annular carrier, and a magnetic/electric transducer mounted to the stationary race by means of a stationary annular carrier and operatively facing the impulse ring; an electromagnetic inductive coupling, including a stationary coil electrically connectable to a power supply means and carried by the stationary annular carrier, and a rotatable coil electrically connectable to at least one electric or electronic device mounted on the wheel, the rotatable coil being carried by the rotatable annular carrier and being electromagnetically linked to the stationary coil, wherein the rotatable coil is electrically connectable to said wheel-mounted electric or electronic device through electrically conductive means, wherein the assembly is mounted onto an axial tubular portion of a wheel hub having an end portion abutting a radial shoulder of a constant velocity joint, wherein the electrically conductive means pass through a radial passage formed at the interface between the constant velocity joint and the end portion of the hub.