Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tire noise reduction device
- Patent Title (中): 轮胎降噪装置
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Application No.: US12431603Application Date: 2009-04-28
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Publication No.: US08136560B2Publication Date: 2012-03-20
- Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
- Applicant: Atsushi Tanno
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Greer, Burns & Crain Ltd.
- Priority: JP2008-124015 20080509; JP2009-091942 20090406
- Main IPC: B60C5/00
- IPC: B60C5/00 ; B60C19/00

Abstract:
A tire noise reduction device includes at least one noise absorbing member made of a porous material. The noise absorbing member is attached to the inner surface of the tire tread portion. The noise absorbing member includes multiple continuous grooves arranged side by side in a tire circumferential direction in the outer peripheral surface of the noise absorbing member. Each of the continuous grooves has an areal groove bottom and forms see-through regions in the width direction of the noise absorbing member. A groove edge-to-edge distance between each adjacent two of the continuous grooves in the tire circumferential direction is 2 mm to 40 mm. A largest see-through cross-sectional area of each continuous groove is 20 mm2 to 100 mm2.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090277549A1 TIRE NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2009-11-12
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