Resilient tires and wheels – Tires – resilient – Pneumatic tire or inner tube
Patent
1998-06-24
1999-10-19
Johnstone, Adrienne C.
Resilient tires and wheels
Tires, resilient
Pneumatic tire or inner tube
152516, 152539, 152540, 152541, 152543, 152544, 152547, 152550, 152552, 152554, B60C 1300, B60C 1500, B60C 1506, B60C 1700
Patent
active
059682949
ABSTRACT:
The run-flat tire has a tread for contacting a ground surface and a belt package with belt plies interior to the tread for support of the tread. A plurality of radially reinforced carcass layers are positioned interior to the belt plies and include at least one carcass layer that extends between spaced apart annular beads. The tire has a pair of sidewalls each extending radially inward from shoulders at lateral edges of the belt package to the annular beads. The sidewalls have a plurality of sidewall stiffening members to support the tire during a loss of inflation pressure. The carcass layers are disposed with the sidewall stiffening members to help support the run-flat tire with a loss of inflation pressure. The spaced apart beads have a unique design including bead cores placed at a predetermined diameter with respect to a rim diameter, dual bead fillers above the bead cores, a heel corner spaced at a radial gap distance from a rim flange and rim interface components having a seat interface distance below the bead core for mounting the run-flat tire on a conventional rim and for sustaining the run-flat tire on the conventional rim with a loss of inflation pressure within the run-flat tire.
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Craddock Jeffrey Scott
Endicott James Milo
Willard, Jr. Walter Lee
Csontos Alan A.
Farrell Martin
Johnstone Adrienne C.
Michelin Recherche ET Technique S.A.
Reed Robert R.
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