The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Patrice Clausse

Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque

Gilles Bonnet

Andreas Frantzen

Olivier Di Prizio

Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel

Raphael Beck

An air maintenance tire and connector system includes a tire carcass having an elongate integral air passageway contained within a flexible tire component of the tire carcass between an air inlet and an air outlet cavity and a connector assembly inserted within an outlet one of the cavities. The connector assembly includes a hollow right angled elbow-shaped body fitting within the outlet cavity. The elbow-shaped body's second housing segment has an axial length sufficient to project axially inward from the first housing segment through a tire wall thickness to a tire central cavity. A valve device attaches to a remote end of the second housing segment within the tire cavity, the valve device operative to regulate air flow between the elbow-shaped body central chamber and the tire cavity.

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Ettelbruck, Luxembourg

Patrice Clausse