Title:
SELF-INFLATING TIRE AND PRESSURE REGULATING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013049410
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a self-inflating tire assembly that self-inflates a tire.
The self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway. An air tube 42 is composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint 202 to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint 202 in a direction opposite to the tire rotation direction to pump air along the passageway to a regulator 54. The regulator 54 regulates an inlet air flow to the air tube and an outlet air flow to the tire cavity.
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Inventors:
HINQUE DANIEL PAUL LUC MARIE
Application Number:
JP2012184043A
Publication Date:
March 14, 2013
Filing Date:
August 23, 2012
Export Citation:
Assignee:
GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER
International Classes:
B60C23/12; B60C19/00
Domestic Patent References:
| JPS6432906A | 1989-02-02 | |||
| JPS6253204A | 1987-03-07 | |||
| JPS5823706U | 1983-02-15 | |||
| JPS6432906A | 1989-02-02 | |||
| JPS6253204A | 1987-03-07 | |||
| JPS5823706U | 1983-02-15 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Akio Miyazaki
Ishibashi Masayuki
Masaaki Ogata
Ishibashi Masayuki
Masaaki Ogata
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