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US 2015/0101722 A1Published application
Tire Inflation System Having a Sleeve Assembly for Routing Pressurized Gas
AssigneeArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
InventorsNicholas S. Lakin, Timothy J. Boothby, Kevin Tracy, James G. Polubinski, Aaron Sinka, Dale Kwasniewski
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Abstract
A tire inflation system having a sleeve assembly. The sleeve assembly may be disposed proximate a spindle and may receive pressurized gas. A wheel end seal assembly may be disposed between the sleeve assembly and a hub to help route the pressurized gas.
Claims20
A tire inflation system comprising:
- a conduit that supplies a pressurized gas for inflating a tire;
- a spindle;
- a hub that is rotatably disposed on the spindle and that has a hub passage that routes the pressurized gas through the hub;
- a sleeve assembly that is disposed proximate the spindle, wherein the sleeve assembly has a sleeve assembly passage that receives the pressurized gas from the conduit;
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- a wheel end seal assembly that is disposed between the sleeve assembly and the hub, wherein the wheel end seal assembly has a seal passage that fluidly connects the sleeve assembly passage to the hub passage.
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A tire inflation system comprising:
- a conduit that supplies a pressurized gas for inflating a tire;
- a spindle disposed along an axis;
- a hub that is disposed on the spindle and configured to rotate about the axis, wherein the hub has a hub passage that routes the pressurized gas through the hub;
- a sleeve assembly that includes:
- a sleeve assembly seal that has a hole that receives the spindle, wherein the sleeve assembly seal has a sleeve assembly passage that receives the pressurized gas from the conduit;
- and
- a deflector that is mounted on the sleeve assembly seal;
- and
- a wheel end seal assembly that is disposed between the sleeve assembly seal and the hub, wherein the wheel end seal assembly has a seal passage that fluidly connects the sleeve assembly passage to the hub passage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.