Continental Aktiengesellschaft

Frank Walloch

Horst Sergel

Heinrich Huinink

Peter Bogenschuetz

Markus Metz

Vehicle pneumatic tire with a rubber tread profile having blocks formed by circumferential grooves and transverse grooves. At least some of the transverse grooves are defined by first and second flank segments. The first and second flank segments have different angles with respect to a radial direction. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Vehicle pneumatic tire with transverse grooves defining flank segments having different angles

A vehicle wheel with a one-piece rim and tubeless pneumatic tire comprises an emergency rolling surface on a radially exterior shell of the rim, an elastic bead, and a one-piece toroidal chamber at each axial front end of the rim. Each chamber includes a closed radially interior chamber wall, a closed radially exterior chamber wall, a closed axially interior chamber wall, and an axially exterior chamber wall axially closed in a radially exterior area defining a radially inwardly directed flange and open in a radially interior area. A filler ring is radially secured in each chamber on the radially interior chamber wall. Each side wall of the tire extends inwardly from the axially exterior wall through the opening, and the head is embedded in the chamber such that the bead lies across the axial extent of the filler ring, the head and the filler ring completely filling the chamber.

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