Tire with sidewall insert

US7694708B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company · US

Inventors

• Giorgio Agostini · Diekirch, LU
• Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce · Mertzig, LU
• Christian Jean-Marie Kaes · Schrondweiler, LU
• Marc Weydert · Bertrange, LU
• Frank Schmitz · Bissen, LU
• Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin · Luxembourg, LU
• Mercedes Maria Diaz-Scharfe · Luxembourg, LU

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 27, 2007
• Grant date: Apr 13, 2010
• Expiry date: Nov 5, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T152/10864
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A pneumatic tire including a circumferential tread, two spaced apart beads, and sidewalls connecting said beads and tread, wherein said tire sidewall contains at least one internal annular sidewall insert including at least two annular segments, the at least two annular segments including first and second adjacent annular segments;