Abstract: A tire for a self-inflating tire system includes a tire carcass having an annular air tube-receiving groove formed within a tire carcass wall and a pump assembly within the groove. The pump assembly includes an air tube having an axial air passageway; an inlet device positioned along the air tube, the inlet having a tubular inlet body having an internal air passageway aligned with the air tube and having at least one inlet opening extending through the inlet body for admitting air into the tubular inlet body. The inlet device further includes an air filtering sleeve at least partially surrounding the inlet opening of the inlet device, the sleeve having a tubular sleeve body at least partially surrounding and in co-axial relationship the tubular inlet body.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2010
Date of Patent:
August 7, 2012
Assignee:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Inventors:
Andres Ignacio Delgado, Christopher David Dyrlund, Mark Anthony Sieverding
Inventors:
Michael Stefan Skurich, Kenneth William Smesko, Jung Wan Cho, Hans-Peter Guevara Leocadio, Nathan Andrew Hunt, Gilles Bonnet, Brian Rene Bourel
Inventors:
Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Olivier Francis Bindner, Francois Pierre Charles Gerard Georges, Bruno Pierre Maitre, Arnaud Caron, Malik Djelloul-Mazouz
Inventors:
Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Jean-Francois Vandeclee, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Thierry Botman, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Michel Pierre Charles Robert
Inventors:
Mark Leonard Bonko, Dale Edward Umstot, Jonathan James Shondel, Charles Joseph Ashton, Joseph Thomas Janesh, Shannon Joseph Hughes, Daniel Glenn Oberlin, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Paul Bryan Maxwell
Inventors:
Mark Leonard Bonko, Dale Edward Umstot, Charles Joseph Ashton, Joseph Thomas Janesh, Shannon Joseph Hughes, Daniel Glenn Oberlin, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Paul Bryan Maxwell