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US 2018/0200972 A1Published application
Pneumatic tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorsNaoki YUKAWA, Yogun KIDA, Mutsuki SUGIMOTO, Satoshi YAMADA
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Abstract
Provided is a pneumatic tire in which a sealant layer entirely exhibits sufficient sealing performance. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including a sealant layer located radially inside an innerliner, the sealant layer being formed by continuously and spirally applying a generally string-shaped sealant to the inner periphery of a tire in the tire width direction from one side to the other, the attachment start portion of the sealant being located tire-widthwise inward from the tire-widthwise end of the sealant layer.
Claims20
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
- a sealant layer located radially inside an innerliner,
- wherein the sealant layer is formed by continuously and spirally applying a generally string-shaped sealant to the inner periphery of a tire in a tire width direction from one side to the other, and
- wherein an attachment start portion of the sealant is located tire-widthwise inward from a tire-widthwise end of the sealant layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.