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US 6,244,314 B1Granted
Motor vehicle wheel with a tire placed on a rim and sound-absorbent insert as well as method of producing a sound-absorbent insert
AssigneeContinental Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsThomas Dodt, Klaus Kleinhoff, Oliver Schürmann, Frank Gauterin, Ivar Veit
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Abstract
Motor vehicle wheel including a wheel rim and a tire having a tire interior enclosed by the wheel rim and the tire. The tire is mounted on the wheel rim, and the wheel also includes an insert composed of a ring-shaped sound-absorbing material that is positioned within the tire interior. The wheel further includes an acoustically transparent support element having tensile strength, at least in a circumferential direction of the tire, that is coupled to the insert.
Claims9
A motor vehicle wheel comprising:
- a wheel rim;
- a tire having a tire interior enclosed by the wheel rim and the tire;
- the tire being mounted on the wheel rim;
- an insert composed of a ring-shaped sound-absorbing material;
- the insert being positioned within the tire interior;
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- the sound-absorbing material comprising an open-cell foam material having pores that extend substantially in a single direction that corresponds with a circumference of the tire.
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A motor vehicle wheel comprising:
- a wheel rim;
- a tire having a tire interior enclosed by the wheel rim and the tire;
- the tire being mounted on the wheel riml;
- an insert composed of a ring-shaped sound-absorbing material;
- the insert being positioned within the tire interior;
- an acoustically transparent support element having tensile strength to resist stretching, at least in a circumferential direction of the tire;
- the acoustically transparent support element being coupled to the insert;
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- the sound-reducing material being shrinkable via thermal treatment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.