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Granted Patent B2
US 10,675,922 · App. 15/860,339 · Granted Jun 9, 2020

Pneumatic vehicle tire having a tacky sealing

Inventors: Matthias Jacob (Leipzig, DE); Oliver Schuermann (Langenhagen, DE)
Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
B60C19/122B60C19/002
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Patent No.
US 10,675,922
App. No.
15/860,339
Granted
Jun 9, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pneumatic vehicle tire having a self-sealing sealant arranged in its interior, on the inner surface opposite from the tread, the sealant being highly viscous and the sealant having such a tackiness that it adheres to the inner surface. The inner surface on which the sealant is arranged has regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect, these regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect taking up between 40% and 60% of the inner surface on which the sealant is arranged.

Claims (28)

1. A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising:

a tire body defining an interior and having a tread and an inner surface arranged opposite said tread;

a self-sealing sealant arranged in said interior, on said inner surface, wherein said sealant is a continuous layer directly on said inner surface;

said sealant being highly viscous and having a tackiness such that said sealant adheres to said inner surface;

said inner surface having regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect which enables flowability of said sealant, and consequently sealing when there are punctures in the pneumatic tire; and,

said regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect taking up between 20% and 80% of said inner surface on which the sealant is arranged.

2. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein:

the pneumatic vehicle tire defines a tire circumference;

and,

said regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect are arranged evenly distributed over said tire circumference.

3. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein said regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect have the structure of a network or a grid or a strip structure or a geometrical 2-dimensional structure.

4. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein said regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect have a structure including circles or polygons.

5. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein said regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect take up between 30% and 60% of said inner surface on which said sealant is arranged.

6. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein said regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect take up 50% of said inner surface on which said sealant is arranged.

7. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 further comprising:

a sound absorber arranged on said sealant in a radially inward direction; and,

said sound absorber being adhered to said sealant on account of said tackiness of said sealant.

8. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 7 , wherein:

said sound absorber and said sealant conjointly define a contact surface;

said regions are first regions;

said contact surface between said sound absorber and said sealant has second regions provided with said adhesion-reducing effect; and,

said second regions take up between 30% and 90% of said contact surface.

9. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein said sealant is a polyurethane gel.

10. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein said sealant is a viscous mixture based on a butyl rubber, a polybutene or based on silicone.

11. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein in the case of an arrangement of a sound absorber on the sealant in which the sealant primarily has the function of an adhesive, the layer thickness of the sealant is 0.5 mm to 2 mm.

12. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein, in the case of an arrangement of a sound absorber on the sealant in which the sealant primarily has the function of an adhesive, a layer thickness of the sealant is approximately 1 mm.

13. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein, in the case of an arrangement of said sealant with a sound absorber, a layer thickness of the sealant is 2.5 mm to 3.5 mm.

14. The pneumatic vehicle tire of claim 1 , wherein, in the case of an arrangement of said sealant with a sound absorber, a layer thickness of the sealant is approximately 3 mm.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2018
From: JACOB, MATTHIAS; SCHUERMANN, OLIVER
To: CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Reel/Frame 044805/0234 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2015 212 488 · Jul 3, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2016054260 · Mar 1, 2016
Related Publication 20180117974A1 · May 3, 2018