A tire assembly includes a cured tire having a tire cavity and first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region, the first sidewall having at least one bending region operatively bending within a rolling tire footprint and a sidewall groove cut into the cured tire and defined by straight sidewalls and a semicircular bottom positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall, the sidewall groove deforming, segment by segment, between a non-deformed state and a deformed, constricted state in response to the deformation of the bending region when adjacent the rolling tire footprint of the tire.
AIR MAINTENANCE PUMPING ASSEMBLY AND TIRE
30.03.2017
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch