Abstract:
Provided is a run-flat support body (1) for a pneumatic tire, in which an outer peripheral side of an annular shell (2) serves as a support surface for supporting an inner surface of the tire (T); an inner peripheral side of the annular shell (2) straddles in the form of a bifurcation; elastic rings (3) and (3) are attached respectively to two leg parts (2b) and (2b) of the annular shell (2); and the annular shell (2) is supported on a rim (Rm) of a wheel with the elastic rings (3) and (3). The elastic rings (3) and (3) are composed of a composite elastic material formed by compounding reinforcement fillers in an elastic material. Accordingly, compressive rigidity of the elastic rings in a radial direction of the tire is made larger than that of the unreinforced elastic rings in the tire radial direction, the unreinforced elastic rings being composed of a single elastic material in which the reinforcement fillers are not compounded. Moreover, bending rigidity of the elastic rings in an axial direction of the tire is made substantially equal to that of the unreinforced elastic rings in the tire axial direction, the unreinforced elastic rings being composed of a single elastic material in which the reinforcement fillers are not compounded.
Abstract:
A tire/wheel assembly comprising a wheel having a rim, a pneumatic tire mounted on the rim of the wheel and a run-flat support member disposed in the cavity of the pneumatic tire. The run-flat support member includes an annular shell and elastic rings. The annular shell has a support surface located radially outward and two leg portions formed radially inward in a straddling state. The elastic rings support the leg portions on the rim. The annular shell is configured such that an annular cavity portion surrounded by the run-flat support member and the pneumatic tire has a cross-sectional area that varies in the circumferential direction of the tire.
Abstract:
A tire wheel assembly capable of enhancing the durability in run-flat driving. In the tire wheel assembly, a pneumatic tire is fitted to the rim of a wheel, and a run-flat support composed of an annular shell having a support surface projecting to the outer circumferential side and leg parts extending along both sides of the support surface, and a pair of left and right elastic rings for supporting the leg parts of the annular shell on the rim is inserted into the cavity section of the pneumatic tire. With regard to the tire wheel assembly, a relation (W2−W1)/W1=0.015-0.100 is satisfied assuming that W1 is the interval between abutting points where the pair of left and right elastic rings abut on the inner surface of the tire when the pneumatic tire and the run-flat support are mounted on the rim, and W2 is the interval between the abutting points when the run-flat support is not mounted.
Abstract:
A tire/wheel assembly comprising a wheel having a rim, a pneumatic tire mounted on the rim of the wheel and a noise reduction interior member disposed in the cavity of the pneumatic tire. The noise reduction interior member includes left and right elastic rings fitted to the rim and an annular body attached between the elastic rings. The annular body is configured such that an annular cavity portion surrounded by the noise reduction interior member and the pneumatic tire has a cross-sectional area that varies in a circumferential direction of the tire.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a mounting structure of a tire monitoring device, in which the tire monitoring device is enabled to function as a warning device notifying a limit of run-flat traveling. When the tire monitoring device which transmits information of the inside of a tire by using radio waves is mounted on a support core member placed within the cavity of a pneumatic tire, a transmission antenna of the tire monitoring device is disposed on a load support surface in a peripheral portion of the support core member.
Abstract:
A tire/wheel assembly having a run-flat support (3) inserted into the cavity section of a pneumatic tire (2) coaxially with a rim, wherein the outer circumferential surface of the run-flat support (3) is coated with a resin layer (8) or at least a region on the inner circumferential surface of the pneumatic tire (2) facing the outer circumferential surface of the run-flat support (3) is coated with the resin layer (8). Alternatively, in a tire/wheel assembly having a run-flat support (3) inserted into the cavity section of the pneumatic tire (2) coaxially with the rim, a cover plate (10) rotatable in the circumferential direction is arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the run-flat support (3).
Abstract:
A self-seal tire according to the present invention has a puncture sealing layer located all over a tire inner wall surface from one shoulder portion to the other shoulder portion of a pneumatic tire. The puncture sealing layer comprises at least one band-shape seal layer, which includes a band-shape sponge layer and a bonding layer, the band-shape sponge layer being impregnated with an adhesive so that it is exposed on a tier wall surface side face of the band-shape sponge layer and spaced apart from a tire counter wall surface side face thereof, and the bonding layer being made of adhesive and provided on the tire wall surface side face. The band-shape seal layer is bonded through the bonding layer on the tire inner wall surface with the band-shape seal layer being wound in a circumferential direction of the tire.
Abstract:
Provided is a tire puncture repair device capable of injecting a puncture sealing agent into a tire stably and speedily. A container is compressed between plate members by placing one of the plate members on the ground and pressing down the other one of the plate members with a foot. Thereby, the puncture sealing agent is discharged from the container and is injected into the tire through an injection tube. Discharge amount control means is attached to the injection tube to level an amount of the puncture sealing agent to be discharged.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and a device for fixing a run-flat support body to a pneumatic tire. The method and the device can achieve the prevention of unevenness in the distribution of the lubricant applied to the inner surface of the tire in which the run-flat support body is used, and thus of deterioration in the weight balance of the wheel. In the fixing method, the run-flat support body configured of a pair of elastic rings to be arranged around a rim and an annular shell installed across these elastic rings is fixed to the pneumatic tire which is to be fitted to the rim with the run-flat support body inserted into a hollow part of the tire. The fixing device, for restricting the radial movements of the run-flat support body inserted into the hollow part, is fitted to at least one of bead parts of the pneumatic tire before the pneumatic tire is fitted to the rim so as to coaxially hold the pneumatic tire and the run-flat support body.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a tire wheel assembly allowed to enhance working efficiency in rim assembling without destabilizing mounting of a run-flat support member, and furthermore, allowed to realize noise reduction by improving a vibration characteristic during normal traveling. The tire wheel assembly is one where, while a pneumatic tire is fitted to a rim of a wheel, inserted into a cavity portion of the pneumatic tire is a run-flat support member formed of a pair of elastic rings fitted to the rim; and an annular shell straddling between the elastic rings. In the tire wheel assembly, inner diameters of the pair of elastic rings are made different from each other to make an inner diameter of one elastic ring fitted to the rim in a back side of the wheel smaller than an inner diameter of the other elastic ring fitted to the rim in a front side of the wheel.