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US 8,573,272 B2Granted
Self-supporting pneumatic tire
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsDamien Albert Ghislain Schreurs, Michael Spiro Markoff, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, David Gilbert Wieczorek
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire includes a carcass, a tread, a belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of the carcass and radially inward of the tread, and an insert located in each sidewall. Each insert comprises a plurality of separate rib members. The carcass includes a reinforcing ply structure extending between a pair of bead portions and a pair of sidewalls. Each sidewall is located radially outward of one of the pair of bead portions.
Claims5
A pneumatic tire comprising:
- a carcass comprising a reinforcing ply structure extending between a pair of bead portions and a pair of sidewalls, each sidewall located radially outward of one of the pair of bead portions;
- a tread;
- a belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of the carcass and radially inward of the tread;
- and
- an insert located in each sidewall, each insert comprising a plurality of distinct and separate rib members, a rib member of the insert including reinforcing organic cords, another rib member of the insert including reinforcing metal filaments, and still another rib member of the insert including inorganic short fibers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.