US 11,938,764 B2
Tire inflation device
Michael Hall, Speedway, IN (US); David Morse, Indianapolis, IN (US); Louis Brown, Indianapolis, IN (US); and Miguel Navarro Baeza, Chicago, IL (US)
Assigned to SRAM, LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by SRAM, LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/034,745.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/908,854, filed on Oct. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0094369 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. B60C 29/06 (2006.01); B60B 1/00 (2006.01); B60B 1/02 (2006.01); B60B 21/00 (2006.01); B60C 5/12 (2006.01); F15D 1/02 (2006.01); B60S 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60C 29/06 (2013.01) [B60B 1/003 (2013.01); B60B 1/02 (2013.01); B60B 21/00 (2013.01); B60C 5/12 (2013.01); F15D 1/02 (2013.01); B60B 2200/47 (2013.01); B60B 2900/531 (2013.01); B60B 2900/541 (2013.01); B60C 2200/12 (2013.01); B60S 5/04 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air deflector disposable at least partially within a tubeless tire of a bicycle wheel, the air deflector comprising:
a body including at least one wall defining an air input end and an air output end of the body; and
a support structure disposed in, on, or in and on the body, wherein the body is made of a first material, and the support structure is made of a second material, the second material having a greater rigidity than the first material,
wherein the body is attachable to a valve of the tubeless tire at the air input end, such that when air is introduced into the body via the valve, at least some of the air is deflectable by one or more walls of the at least one wall out of the body at the air output end,
wherein the air output end is a first air output end, and an output opening is a first output opening,
wherein the body further has a second air output end, and
wherein the body further includes a second output opening at the second air output end of the body.