Resilient tires and wheels – Tires – resilient – Pneumatic tire or inner tube
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-07
2010-06-29
Johnstone, Adrienne C (Department: 1791)
Resilient tires and wheels
Tires, resilient
Pneumatic tire or inner tube
Reexamination Certificate
active
07743808
ABSTRACT:
A pneumatic tire and rim assembly is provided in the cavity with a noise damper in which a sponge material extending in a circumferential direction of the tire and having a volume V2of 0.4 to 20% of entire volume V1of the cavity, wherein the noise damper comprises a fixing surface fixed to a surface which surrounds the tire cavity, and a free surface directed to the tire cavity, a maximum value of thickness from the fixing surface to the free surface is in a range of 5 to 50 mm, including a thick mountain portion and a thin valley portion; and at least one of outer ends of the noise damper in the circumferential direction of the tire is formed into an inclined surface portion comprising a first inclined surface rising from the fixing surface and a second inclined surface extending from, the first inclined surface to the free surface.
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Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Johnstone Adrienne C
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.
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