Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shoushuu Yamazaki

Wako Iwamura

Makoto Sugiya

Mikio Kashiwai

Nobuo Kambara

Haruo Fukuta

Shunsuke Uchiyama

Naoki Shirakawa

Hitoshi Takeuchi

An airless tire includes a cylindrical tread ring having a ground contact surface, a hub disposed radially inward of the tread ring and a plurality of spokes each connecting the tread ring to the hub. The hub includes a disk portion to be fixed to an axle and a cylindrical portion extending in an axial direction of the tire from a radially outer portion of the disk portion. The cylindrical portion includes a radially inner surface being provided with a circumferentially extending projection protruding radially inwardly.

Airless tire and hub for airless tire

An airless tire includes multiple tire pieces including a first tire piece and a second tire piece such that the first and second tire pieces are integrated in alignment in tire axial direction. The first tire piece includes a first tread ring, a first inner periphery portion and first spokes such that the first ring has a cylindrical form and a ground contact surface, the first periphery portion is formed on radial direction inner side of the first ring, and the first spokes are connecting the first ring and periphery portion, and the second tire piece includes a second tread ring, a second inner periphery portion, and second spokes such that the second ring has a cylindrical form and a ground contact surface, the second periphery portion is formed on radial direction inner side of the second ring, and the second spokes are connecting the second ring and periphery portion.

Airless tire

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Imizu, Japan

Shoushuu Yamazaki