System and a method
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsPierre-Alexis Tetaz, Mathieu Grandemange, Remi Bouard, Yves Potin
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Abstract
A device for preventing excessive increase of an internal pressure of a rolling assembly, the rolling assembly having a rotation axis and comprising a wheel and a tire, the tire being mounted onto the wheel creating an inner cavity surrounded by a wheel internal surface and a tire internal surface, comprises a cold spot placed in the inner cavity of the rolling assembly for condensing vapor contained in a gas filled in the inner cavity.
Claims16
A system for preparing a rolling assembly before usage, the rolling assembly having a rotation axis and comprising a wheel and a tire, the tire being mounted onto the wheel creating an inner cavity surrounded by a wheel internal surface and a tire internal surface, the system comprising:
- a circulator for circulating a gas in the inner cavity;
- a dryer for drying the gas to be circulated in the inner cavity;
- an intake mean for introducing the gas to be circulated in the inner cavity;
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- an exhaust mean for exhausting the gas circulated in the inner cavity and for guiding the gas exhausted to the circulator and to the dryer.
A method for preparing a rolling assembly before usage, the rolling assembly having a rotation axis and comprising a wheel and a tire, the tire being mounted onto the wheel creating an inner cavity surrounded by a wheel internal surface and a tire internal surface, comprising:
- a step for drying a gas to be circulated in the inner cavity;
- a step for circulating, using a circulator, the gas after the gas is dried;
- a step for introducing the gas to be circulated in the inner cavity;
- a step for exhausting the gas introduced and circulated in the inner cavity;
- and a step for guiding the gas exhausted to the circulator and a mean for drying the gas.
A method for preparing at least two rolling assemblies simultaneously before usage, each the rolling assembly having a rotation axis and comprising a wheel and a tire, the tire being mounted onto the wheel creating an inner cavity surrounded by a wheel internal surface and a tire internal surface, comprising:
- a step for drying a gas to be circulated in the inner cavity;
- a step for circulating, using a circulator, the gas after the gas is dried;
- a step for introducing the gas to be circulated in the inner cavity of one rolling assembly;
- a step for circulating the gas circulated in one rolling assembly to another rolling assembly;
- a step for exhausting the gas introduced and circulated in the inner cavities of the at least two rolling assemblies;
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- a step for guiding the gas exhausted to the circulator and a mean for drying the gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.