Tire inflator with inflation timer
AssigneeHopkins Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsLynn Curtis Strong, James Kingsbury, Chris Auerbach, Patrick Lee Ohm, Stephen Leveau, Michael Williams
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Abstract
A portable inflation device having a pump, a control device, a user interface, and an inflation indicator. The pump includes an elongated hose with an inflation nozzle. The control device controls operation of the pump and is configured to sense a current pressure of an object, calculate the estimated remaining time to inflate the object to a target pressure, and display the remaining time using the inflation indicator. The user interface is configured to allow a user to enter the target pressure into the control device.
Claims13
A portable inflation device for inflating an object, the portable inflation device comprising:
- an air pump for delivering pressurized air and having
- an elongated air hose, and
- an inflation nozzle that is configured to connect to the object;
- a user interface configured to receive a target pressure and a unit of pressure in which to display a current pressure and the target pressure;
- a first inflation indicator configured to display
- an estimated remaining time,
- the target pressure,
- the current pressure of the object,
- a field that graphically represents the estimated remaining time, and
- the unit of pressure in which the target pressure and the current pressure are displayed;
- a second inflation indicator configured to display the estimated remaining time;
- and
- a control device wirelessly coupled to the user interface and the second inflation indicator, the control device configured to
- control operation of the air pump, the control device including a sensor that detects the current pressure,
- receive, via wireless communication, the target pressure from the user interface,
- convert the target pressure and the current pressure to the unit of pressure in which to display the current pressure and the target pressure,
- calculate the estimated remaining time until the current pressure is within a predetermined margin of the target pressure,
- send the estimated remaining time to the first inflation indicator;
- and
- send, via wireless communication, the estimated remaining time to the second inflation indicator.
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