# US 10,307,978 B2 · Tire puncture repair kit

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- Number: US 10,307,978 B2
- Document ID: US10307978B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/121,122
- Filed: 2014-12-03
- Published: 2017-01-19
- Granted: 2019-06-04
- Earliest claimed: 2014-02-25
- Assignees: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.; Unik World Ind. Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.; Unik World Ind. Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Akihiko Kawatani; Tsutomu Kono; Vincent Chou
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10307978B2

## CPC

- B29C 73/166: {Devices or methods for introducing sealing compositions into articles}
- B29C 73/025: {fed under pressure}
- B29D 30/0681: {Parts of pneumatic tyres; accessories, auxiliary operations}
- B29D 30/0685: {Incorporating auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents on or into tyres (auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents B29C73/16; puncture preventing arrangements B60C19/12)}
- B29D 2030/0698: {the sealant being applied by injection, e.g. introducing the sealant through a hole}
- B29L 2030/00: Pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof {(conveyor belts B29L2031/7092; drive belts B29L2031/7094; fourdrinier belts B29L2031/733)}
- B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00)
- B29D: PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B9/00; making preforms B29B11/00)
- B29L: INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES

## Abstract

To control compressed air to a prescribed pressure without using a relief valve and a chamber and to suppress deviation of the pressure. A compressor device 2 of a puncture repair kit 1 has a pressure gauge 6. The pressure gauge 6 has a tubular body portion 18 provided in a front end portion with a communicating hole 21 communicating with a surge chamber 12B, a piston 19 movable within the tubular body portion 18 in the longitudinal direction by the compressed air from the communicating hole 21, and a spring 20 biasing the piston 19 toward the front end and changing its displacement according to the magnitude of the pressure of the compressed air. An exhaust port 25 is formed on the peripheral wall of the tubular body portion 18. The exhaust port 25 releases the compressed air when a seal ring 23 of the piston 19 exceeds the exhaust port 25.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A puncture repair kit comprising:
a compressor device, and
a bottle unit comprising a bottle container containing a puncture repair liquid, and an extraction cap fitted to a mouth portion of the bottle container, wherein the extraction cap has an intake port portion for feeding compressed air from the compressor device into the bottle container, and an outlet port portion for taking out the puncture repair liquid and the compressed air in succession from the bottle container by the feeding of the compressed air, and
wherein the compressor device comprises
a compressor main body having a cylinder having a main cylinder part forming a pump chamber for compressing the air, and a sub-cylinder part forming a surge chamber being contiguous to the main cylinder part and receiving the compressed air from the pump chamber, and
a pressure gauge for measuring the pressure of the compressed air in the surge chamber, the pressure gauge comprising
a tubular body portion which is provided in a front end portion with a communicating hole communicating with the surge chamber, and in which a cap is attached to a rear end portion,
a piston having a seal ring sealing between the piston and the inner peripheral surface of the tubular body portion, and being movable together with the seal ring within the tubular body portion in the longitudinal direction by the compressed air from the communicating hole,
a spring disposed between the piston and the cap so as to bias the piston toward the front end portion, and changing displacement of the spring by the magnitude of the pressure of the compressed air,
an indicator portion disposed on a peripheral wall of the tubular body portion and indicating the amount of movement of the piston, wherein at least a part of the tubular body portion where the indicator portion is formed is transparent, and the seal ring is a pointer of the indicator portion and visible through the transparent part to indicate the moved position of the piston, and
an exhaust port formed on the peripheral wall of the tubular body portion,
wherein, when the compressed air reaches to a prescribed pressure and the seal ring moves beyond the exhaust port, the exhaust port communicates with the communicating hole, and exhausts the compressed air.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 1, wherein the tubular body portion is formed from a transparent material.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 2, wherein the piston has a tubular blindfold portion covering the spring.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 1, wherein the cap has a guide portion for guiding the piston concentrically.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 1, wherein the pressure gauge and the sub-cylinder part are connected through a connecting means comprising:
a connecting nozzle which is provided on one of the tubular body portion and the sub-cylinder part and projects toward the other of the tubular body portion and the sub-cylinder part,
a nozzle socket which is provided on the other of the tubular body portion and the sub-cylinder part, and into which the connecting nozzle is inserted concentrically and hermetically, and
a retaining means for preventing the connecting nozzle from becoming uninserted from the nozzle socket.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 5, wherein the retaining means exerts a retention function by rotating the pressure gauge around an axis j of the connecting nozzle up to a predetermined angular position after the insertion of the connecting nozzle into the nozzle socket.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 6, wherein the retaining means has
a rectangular plate-shaped first plate part extending outwardly in a diameter direction from the connecting nozzle,
a rectangular plate-shaped second plate part extending in a diameter direction from the nozzle socket and having a front face facing a front face of the first plate part in the inserted state, and
a hook portion provided on one of the first and second plate parts, wherein the hook portion is L-shaped and has a rising piece portion extending away from the connecting nozzle or from the nozzle socket from each end in a diameter direction of said one of the first and second plate parts, and an engaging piece portion bent inward in the diameter direction from a distal end of each rising piece portion, and
between the one of the plate parts and the engaging piece portion, the other plate part is sandwiched and retained by rotating the pressure gauge to the predetermined angular position.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 7, wherein the other plate part has arcuate chamfer portions on a pair of corner portions which form opposing corners across the axis j.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 8, wherein the retaining means stops the rotation of the pressure gauge at the predetermined angular position
by contacting an outer end face in the diameter direction of the other plate part with an inner wall surface in the diameter direction of the rising piece portion.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 9, wherein the retaining means has an anti rotation return means to prevent a rotational return motion of the pressure gauge from the predetermined angular position.

### Claim 11 (depends on 2)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 2, wherein the cap has a guide portion for guiding the piston concentrically.

### Claim 12 (depends on 3)

The tire puncture repair kit as set forth in claim 3, wherein the cap has a guide portion for guiding the piston concentrically.