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US 2004/0206437 A1Published application
Tire/wheel assembly
OwnerIchiro Akiyama, Hiroshi Yamauchi +1inventors
InventorsIchiro Akiyama, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yasuji Akiyoshi
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Abstract
Disclosed is a tire/wheel assembly capable of reducing air column resonance sound without deteriorating uniformity or damaging rim assembling performance. In this tire/wheel assembly, an annular tube, an outer sectional area of which is nonuniform in a tire circumferential direction, is arranged in a closed space formed between a pneumatic tire and a wheel.
Claims6
A tire/wheel assembly, comprising an annular tube arranged in a closed space formed between a pneumatic tire and a wheel, an outer sectional area of the tube being nonuniform in a tire circumferential direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.