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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2009
Nicolas Claude Jean-claude Froger, Arlon, BE;
Laurent Rene Nicolas Haas, Thionville, FR;
Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Luxembourg, LU;
Nicolas Claude Jean-Claude Froger, Arlon, BE;
Laurent Rene Nicolas Haas, Thionville, FR;
Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Luxembourg, LU;
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
An assembly adjusts functional characteristics of the assembly. The assembly includes a wheel for a vehicle, a pneumatic tire mounted on the wheel, a first electromagnetic structure attached to the pneumatic tire, and a second electromagnetic structure attached to the wheel. The assembly has a first condition characterized by the first and second electromagnetic structures being not energized and a second condition characterized by the first and second electromagnetic structures being energized. The first condition is characterized by a first footprint of the pneumatic tire with a shape different than a shape of a second footprint of the pneumatic tire in the second condition.