Vehicle
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorHidehiko Hino
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Abstract
Disclosed is a vehicle equipped with air-filled tires, wherein heating of the air-filled tires during driving is minimized, and the durability of said tires is increased. Either many dimples are formed on the outside surface of at least one sidewall of the air-filled tires, or at least part of the outside surface of the sidewalls is formed using a good-thermal-conductivity rubber having a thermal conductivity of at least 0.40 W/(m·K). The vehicle is also provided with a cooling device that blows a gas that cools the air-filled tires from the outside.
Claims20
A vehicle having pneumatic tires, wherein
- a large number of dimples are formed in an outside surface of at least one of sidewalls of each of the pneumatic tires, and
- the vehicle includes a cooling device which blows gas for cooling the pneumatic tire from outside.
A vehicle having pneumatic tires, wherein
- at least a portion of an outside surface of each of sidewalls of the pneumatic tire is made of good-thermal-conductivity rubber having thermal conductivity of 0.40 W/(m·K) or more, and
- the vehicle includes a cooling device which blows gas for cooling, from outside, the sidewall provided with the good-thermal-conductivity rubber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.