| 摘要 |
Small air pumping devices are mounted directly in the conventional tire valves to keep the vehicle's tires properly inflated without requiring the user's attention. If a tire is beginning to become under-inflated, a pumping piston having a single check valve is moved reciprocally in the tire valve stem by the cyclical deformation of the tire during the vehicle's travelling. The ambient air is pumped into the tires through the tire valves. The tire valves incorporating the pumping devices are kept using in a regular manner for reliably preventing air escaping from the tires and for inflating the tires from the external sources. Such "self-inflating" tire valves may be mounted as the regular tire valves both in new manufactured vehicles or in used vehicles without any modifications in the vehicle's axes, wheels or tires and without the necessity to make additional openings in the wheel.
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