Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Airless tire
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Application No.: US14932601Application Date: 2015-11-04
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Publication No.: US09969219B2Publication Date: 2018-05-15
- Inventor: Wako Iwamura , Makoto Sugiya
- Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
- Current Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-004435 20150113
- Main IPC: B60C7/14
- IPC: B60C7/14 ; B60B1/02 ; B60B9/26 ; B60C7/18

Abstract:
An airless tire includes a cylindrical tread ring, a hub and a spoke structure connecting the tread ring and hub. The spoke structure has a tread-side annular component, a hub-side annular component, and spoke plates radially extending from the hub-side to tread-side components, each spoke plate has thickness having first tapered-thickness region, second tapered-thickness region and minimum-thickness region such that the first region radially extending outward has the thickness gradually reducing from first position at which the hub-side component is bonded, the second region radially extending inward has the thickness gradually reducing from second position at which the tread-side component is bonded, and the minimum-thickness region has the minimum thickness between the first and second regions, and the first and second regions are formed such that each of tire radial lengths of the first and second regions is at least 0.05 times a tire radial length of a spoke plate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160200144A1 AIRLESS TIRE Public/Granted day:2016-07-14
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