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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1989
Yasuo Wada, Nishinomiya, JP;
Hiroshi Ito, Nishinomiya, JP;
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A tire and an assembly of a rim and a tire are disclosed. The rim has a pair of rim bases, a hump formed axially inside each rim base, and an annular groove formed axially inside each hump. The tire comprises a pair of beads having a bead base seated on the rim base, a pair of bead cores disposed one in each bead, at least one of the beads having a toe and a hump groove disposed between the toe and the bead base, wherein the tip of the toe is located radially outside a bead base line, and under such condition that the tire is inflated to a normal internal pressure, the hump groove and the tip of the toe are spaced apart from the hump and the annular groove, and the distance L in the radial direction between the radially outermost point RT of the hump and the radially outermost point PT of the hump groove is not less than 0.5 mm and not more than 2.0 mm.