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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Applicant:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Inventor:
Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Habay-la-Neuve, BE;
Assignee:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 23/12 (2006.01); B60C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 29/04 (2013.01); B60C 23/12 (2013.01); Y10T 152/10495 (2015.01);
Abstract
A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air passageway in the tire that is operable to be sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air from a valve device through the passageway to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. The valve device has an internal pressure membrane that regulates the inlet flow of the air to the tube pump.