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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Habay-la-Neuve, BE;
Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Luxembourg, LU;
Gauthier Piret, Ster-Francorchamps, BE;
William Alain Talbot, Bastogne, BE;
Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Villeneuve d'ascq, FR;
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to a regulator device. The regulator device regulates the inlet air flow to the air tube and the outlet air flow to the tire cavity.