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Volume 02, Issue 10

Published on: October 2026

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF AUTOMATED AIR INFLATOR AND DEFLATOR SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES

Shlok Sunil Paunikar Kaushik Dharmik Patil Sparsh Manohar Samarth Sujal Wasudeo Hiwanj Piyush Kirankumar Bawanthade

Prof. Vivek Patil

Department of

Mechanical Engineering

Tulsiramji Gaikwad-Patil College of Engineering & Technology Nagpur, India

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Abstract

Maintaining appropriate tyre pressure is an important part of vehicle safety, tyre service life, ride behaviour, and energy consumption. Conventional pressure maintenance normally requires the vehicle to be stopped so that the tyre can be checked and adjusted with an external inflator or air source. This work presents the design and fabrication of an automated air inflator and deflator system intended to regulate tyre pressure with reduced manual intervention. The proposed system combines a pressure sensor, Arduino Uno microcontroller, 12 V DC compressor, solenoid-operated air-release path, pneumatic tubing, rotary pneumatic connection, relay-based actuation, and an LCD indication unit. The measured tyre pressure is compared with lower and upper set limits. When pressure falls below the lower limit, the controller activates the compressor to supply air to the tyre. When pressure exceeds the upper limit, the controller disables the compressor and actuates the solenoid valve to release air until the pressure returns to the permitted range. A prototype-level implementation was developed for a single tyre because of limited component and funding availability. The work focuses on the integrated mechanical, pneumatic, electronic, and control architecture and establishes a basis for later extension to four-wheel operation, wireless sensing, and vehicle-level integration.

Index Terms— tyre pressure control, automatic inflation, automatic deflation, pressure sensor, Arduino Uno, pneumatic rotary air connection.

How to Cite this Paper

Paunikar, S. S., Patil, K. D., Samarth, S. M., Hiwanj, S. W. & Bawanthade, P. K. (2026). Design and Fabrication of Automated Air Inflator and Deflator System for Vehicles. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(10), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.004

Paunikar, Shlok, et al.. "Design and Fabrication of Automated Air Inflator and Deflator System for Vehicles." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 10, 2026, pp. 1-9. doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.004.

Paunikar, Shlok,Kaushik Patil,Sparsh Samarth,Sujal Hiwanj, and Piyush Bawanthade. "Design and Fabrication of Automated Air Inflator and Deflator System for Vehicles." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 10 (2026): 1-9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i10.004.

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