Tire with inner surface provided with a nanostructure
AssigneeLars Bertil Carnehammer
InventorNorbert Seitz
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Abstract
The invention relates to automobile tires or tire assemblies or parts thereof suitable for being balanced by introduction therein of a thixrotropic balancing gel, wherein surfaces of the tire or tire assembly or part thereof which are intended to be in contact with the balancing gel are provided with a surface nanostructure with an average surface roughness in the range of 1-1000 nm. The surface nanostructure will enable the thixotropic balancing gel to move to the location, where it balances the tire, significantly quicker than if the surface in question did not have the surface nanostructure.
Claims19
Automobile tire or tire assembly or a part thereof, to be balanced by introduction therein of a thixotropic balancing gel, wherein surfaces of the tire or tire assembly or part thereof that contact the balancing gel are provided with a surface nanostructure that has an average surface roughness in the range of 1-1000 nm and that being configured to reduce the actual contact area between the balancing gel and said surfaces such that the balancing gel wets said surfaces less, thereby easing gel movement across said surfaces in response to forces exerted by imbalance of the tire or tire assembly or part thereof.
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