Tire-wheel assembly
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshiyuki Ikeda, Katsuyoshi Sekine
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Abstract
A tire-wheel assembly having a wheel with a rim and a pneumatic tire mounted on the rim, the pneumatic tire having a cavity inside for charging air. The pneumatic tire has a cavity's resonant frequency Fc arising from the cavity, and the wheel has a plurality of natural frequencies. The difference between the cavity's resonant frequency Fc of the pneumatic tire and the natural frequency Fw of the wheel closest to the cavity's resonant frequency is 10 Hz or more.
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A tire-wheel assembly having a wheel with a rim and a pneumatic tire mounted on the rim, the pneumatic tire having a cavity inside for inflation with air, the pneumatic tire having a resonant frequency (Fc) arising from the cavity, the wheel having a plurality of natural frequencies including a natural wheel frequency (Fw) closest to (Fc) wherein the difference between the resonant frequency (Fc) and the natural wheel frequency Fw is 10 Hz or more.
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