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US 2021/0061009 A1Published application
Nonpneumatic tire and wheel assembly with integrated spoke structure
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsKurtis Dale Kandel, Robert Allen Losey, Steven Allan Kontney, Andrew Brent Mendenhall
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Abstract
A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly is described herein having an outer an annular ring which includes a ground contacting tread portion and a shear band. One or more spoke disks are integrally mounted on a wheel wherein a plurality of anchors on the spoke disks are received in mating aligned slots of the wheel.
Claims7
A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly comprising:
- an outer annular ring having a ground contacting tread portion and a shear band, one or more spoke disks, wherein each spoke disk is connected to the shear band, wherein each spoke disk has at least two spokes, wherein each spoke extends between an outer ring and an inner ring, wherein each of said spoke disks have a plurality of anchors which extend radially inward of the inner ring for mounting in aligned slots of a wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.