The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.s.

Raphael Beck

Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque

Ralf Mruk

Gilles Bonnet

Andreas Frantzen

Annette Lechtenboehmer

Carlo Kanz

Olivier Di Prizio

Eric Rossignaud

Christian Kaes

Francesco Sportelli

Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel

Gauthier Piret

Etienne Besnoin

Gary Terence Barrett

Bartosz Zielinski

Björn Springer

David Gilbert Wieczorek

Dirk Lothar Maria Van Eck

John Woods

Patrice Clausse

Sébastien Montet

Jesse Scott Roeck

Peter Cornelius Maus

Mehmet Saadettin Fidan

Olivier Marcel Eugène Durand

Neslihan GÜL

Hazal ÖZcan

Anne Therese Perronet-Paquin

The present invention relates to a textile cord comprising at least two yarns, each yarn comprising multiple filaments, wherein each filament comprises polyethylene furanoate reinforced by carbon nano material and/or boron nitride nano material. These textile cords are particularly useful as tire reinforcements. Moreover, the present invention is directed to a polymeric composition comprising (1) polyethylene-2,5-furan dicarboxylate and (2) a carbon nano material or a boron nitride nano material. This polymeric composition can optionally be further comprised of one or more additional polyesters, such as polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate. This invention is further directed to a rubber component comprising said cords coated with rubber and to tires and other rubber products comprising such cords.

Tire textile cord

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.

Connector system and air maintenance tire assembly

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.

Air maintenance tire and elbow connector system

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