Patent · US Expired

Motor vehicle wheel with a tire placed on a rim and sound-absorbent insert as well as method of producing a sound-absorbent insert

US6244314A · kind A · utility

19Cited by

6References

9Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Continental AG · DE

Inventors

Thomas Dodt · Snohomish, US
Klaus Kleinhoff · Rodenberg, DE
Oliver Schürmann · Langenhagen, DE
Frank Gauterin · Leinsweiler, DE
Ivar Veit · Lübeck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 1997
Grant date	Jun 12, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 22, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T152/10495
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Motor vehicle wheel including a wheel rim and a tire having a tire interior enclosed by the wheel rim and the tire. The tire is mounted on the wheel rim, and the wheel also includes an insert composed of a ring-shaped sound-absorbing material that is positioned within the tire interior. The wheel further includes an acoustically transparent support element having tensile strength, at least in a circumferential direction of the tire, that is coupled to the insert.

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