Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Self-inflating tire assembly
- Patent Title (中): 自充气轮胎组件
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Application No.: US12906165Application Date: 2010-10-18
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Publication No.: US08291950B2Publication Date: 2012-10-23
- Inventor: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque , Jean Joseph Victor Collette , René Louis Bormann , Massimo Di Giacomo Russo , Gilles Bonnet
- Applicant: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque , Jean Joseph Victor Collette , René Louis Bormann , Massimo Di Giacomo Russo , Gilles Bonnet
- Applicant Address: US OH Akron
- Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Current Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Akron
- Agent Richard B. O'Planick
- Main IPC: B60C23/12
- IPC: B60C23/12

Abstract:
A tire assembly includes a tire carcass body and an air tube body extending between an outward facing tire body surface and an inward tire body surface. The air tube body has an enclosed hollow enclosed outlet end at a first end and an enclosed hollow inlet end at an opposite second end. An air passageway extends through the air tube body from the inlet end to the outlet end. The outlet end is positioned to face exposed from the outward tire body surface and the inlet end is positioned to face exposed from the inward tire body surface. The air tube body is integrally formed of resilient flexible material composition and includes a hollow outer casing and one or more hollow air cables positioned within the casing for regulating the rate of air flow from the inlet end to the outlet end. The air tube body may follow a non-linear U-shaped path that surrounds a tire body bead core between the outward tire body surface and the inward tire body surface and be incorporated into the green tire build without disrupting the tire building and curing process or compromising the structural integrity or form of any of the green tire building components.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120090752A1 SELF-INFLATING TIRE ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2012-04-19
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