Self inflating tire with pressure regulator
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsDaniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Gilles Bonnet, Gauthier Piret
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AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsDaniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Gilles Bonnet, Gauthier Piret
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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.
A self-inflating tire assembly comprising:
A self-inflating tire assembly comprising:
The self-inflating tire assembly of claim 14 wherein the second check valve is mounted to the tire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.