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self inlfating tires

Category: Tires
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the most common accident that can happen to you on a road is having a flat tire. it can happen anytime, any place, anywhere. whether if the tires are new or old, or even checked the tires before driving. why not have self inflating tires? we can use the same technology that we use in airbags to inflate the tires. when the tire is blown out, the impact will active the system to inflate a spare tire, but the tire is just a tube just enough to support the car in moving.

donn, Mar 05 2006

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Although the concept of maintaining control and driveability is worthwhile, the idea of an impact system to initiate release of a spare inflated tube within the tire has its problems. The tire is the main contact of the car with the environment and a vehicle daily encounters many impacts on the road with bumps and litter on the road that might initiate inflation of the spare. There are tires now that can maintain vehicle stability for the temporary time to get to a service station based on the inner structure of the tire but I don't think they have been popular to date. Perhaps they are too expensive.

Perhaps an internal pressure sensitive actuator would be more useful to inflate an internal spare tube.

Another concept might be useful. Instead of one central tube, the tire could have many small sealed air pockets so the puncture of one pocket would not disable the tire. This would make impossible the change of inflation pressure with climate or terrain change but perhaps this is not over important.

sand, Mar 05 2006