Resilient tires and wheels – Tires – resilient – Pneumatic tire or inner tube
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-10
2006-01-10
Stormer, Russell D. (Department: 3617)
Resilient tires and wheels
Tires, resilient
Pneumatic tire or inner tube
C152S400000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06983780
ABSTRACT:
The present inventions are a run-flat tire and a tire/wheel assembly in which the workability of the tire-to-rim fit has been improved while including a core-type run-flat support member. The tire/wheel assembly is formed by fitting a pneumatic tire into a wheel rim. In the tire/wheel assembly, the run-flat support member constituted of a circular shell and elastic rings is inserted into a cavity of the pneumatic tire, in which the circular shell has a support surface thereof extended toward the periphery of the tire and leg portions along each end of the support surface, and the elastic rings are attached to the leg portions of the circular shell. Meanwhile, stages extending in a tire circumferential direction are formed on the inner walls of a pair of right and left beads in the pneumatic tire, and the elastic rings are locked into the stages.
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Kuramori Akira
Kuwajima Masatoshi
Tanno Atsushi
Bellinger Jason R.
Rader & Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
Stormer Russell D.
The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.
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