Connector system and air maintenance tire assembly

US8985171B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company · US

Inventors

• Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque · Arlon, BE
• Gilles Bonnet · Diekirch, LU
• Olivier Di Prizio · Yutz, FR
• Gauthier Piret · Malmedy, BE
• Andreas Frantzen · Trier, DE
• Raphael Beck · Reichlange, LU

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 24, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T152/10855
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A connector system and tire assembly includes an elongate integral air passageway contained within a flexible tire component of a tire carcass, the air passageway extending between an air inlet cavity and an air outlet cavity in the flexible tire component, and the air passageway extending at least a partial circumferential path around the tire carcass. A hollow dome-shaped inlet nut seats within the inlet cavity and a hollow dome-shaped outlet nut seats within the outlet cavity. The inlet nut couples to an air inlet device for conducting air external to the tire carcass into the inlet nut central chamber; and the outlet nut outward body side couples to a valve device positioned within the tire cavity.