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US 7,243,852 B2Granted
Wheel assembly identification device
AssigneeBridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC
InventorStefan A. Parks
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Abstract
An identification device (6) modified to fit into a lug nut hole (20). The device (6) includes a conical body molded of plastic material and has an embedded codded chip.
Claims6
A method of providing identification of a wheel assembly having a rim and a tire mounted thereon including the steps of injection molding an identification device of plastic material with a conical shape;
- embedding a radio frequency identification tag in the device;
- securing at least one retention spring on the device;
- and inserting the identification device in a lug nut hole of the rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.