Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a sealant layer located radially inside an innerliner; and a sound-absorbing layer located radially inside the sealant layer, the sealant layer being formed of a generally string-shaped sealant provided continuously and spirally along the inner periphery of the tire, the sound-absorbing layer being attached with the sealant.

The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire having a sound absorber composed of foam which is adhesively attached, in the interior of the tire, to the inner surface situated opposite the tread, wherein the sound absorber adheres to a previously applied, self-sealing sealant which, at least immediately after its application, has a tackiness required for the adhesive attachment of the sound absorber. The sound absorber is made up of a multiplicity of individual geometric sound absorber bodies which are not connected to one another, in that each of the geometric sound absorber bodies adheres to the sealant, and in that each of the geometric sound absorber bodies has a diameter of 1 mm to 50 mm.

The invention is directed to a pneumatic vehicle tire which includes a foam sound absorber in its interior, adhesively attached to the inner surface opposite from the tread and extending in an annular manner over the circumference of the tire. The sound absorber adheres to a previously applied, self-sealing sealant which, at least immediately after its application, has a tackiness required for the adhesive attachment of the sound absorber. The sound absorber is made up of a plurality of annular component sound-absorber elements that extend in the circumferential direction. Two directly adjacently arranged annular component sound-absorber elements are spaced apart from one another in the axial direction by a clear distance.

A self-sealing pneumatic tire having at least one cohesive sandwich radially inward of the pneumatic tire is provided. The at least cohesive sandwich may include a cohesive material under pressure, facilitating a recovery capacity upon being pierced by a sharp object, whereby the molecules of the cohesive material cohesively reattach, self-sealing any passageway or space created by the sharp object. The self-sealing pneumatic tire may also provide a loculated-diamond-section layer located radially inward of the outer cohesive sandwich, further supporting the self-sealing pneumatic tire. The external rubber tread are disposed along the circumference of the tire in some embodiments can be separate from the surface of the tire yet secured in place by attachments. Once fully utilized, this external rubber tread can be replaced by a new version without having to replace the entire tire.

A process for applying particles to the inner wall of a tire comprising two sidewalls, a crown provided radially externally with a tread, a carcass-type reinforcing structure and at least one crown reinforcement, the inner surface of the sidewalls and of the crown forming an inner wall, at least one portion of said inner wall being covered with at least one layer of self-sealing composition. The particles are applied after the curing of the tire.

Provided is a pneumatic tire with excellent tire noise-reducing properties. The pneumatic tire includes a resonator attached to the inner periphery of the tire, the resonator including a tube with an opening, and a cavity connected to the tube.

Elastomer composition having a self-sealing property which can be used in particular as puncture-resistant layer in an inflatable article, based on at least (phr meaning parts by weight per 100 parts of solid elastomer): a blend of at least two solid elastomers, a polybutadiene or butadiene copolymer elastomer, referred to as elastomer A, and a natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene elastomer, referred to as elastomer B, the elastomer A: elastomer B ratio by weight being within a range from 10:90 to 90:10; between 30 and 90 phr of a hydrocarbon resin; from 0 to less than 30 phr of filler. Inflatable article, such as a tire, provided with a puncture-resistant layer comprising this elastomer composition; the puncture-resistant layer is advantageously used in combination with an airtight layer, for example based on butyl rubber or TPS elastomer, in order to form, in the inflatable article, an airtight and puncture-resistant laminate.

The present invention is directed to a method of cleaning an innermost surface of a pneumatic tire, the surface having a residue deposited thereon, comprising the steps of: activating a laser to generate laser radiation; directing a pulse of laser radiation to impinge on an area of the innermost surface, the pulse of radiation having a pulse width and a fluence sufficient to remove at least part of the residue in the area to form a cleaned area; repeating the step of directing the pulse of radiation sequentially over the innermost surface to form a sequence of cleaned areas, the sequence of cleaned areas defining a stripe, the stripe following a continuous nonlinear path extending at least one circumference about the inner surface, the stripe having a stripe width W2. The invention is further directed to a tire made by the method.

The present invention is directed to a method of making a self-sealing pneumatic tire, the tire having a tread width and a radially innermost surface having a residue deposited thereon, comprising the steps of: activating a laser to generate laser radiation; directing a pulse of laser radiation to impinge on an area of the innermost surface, the pulse of radiation having a pulse width and a fluence sufficient to remove at least part of the residue in the area to form a cleaned area; repeating the step of directing the pulse of radiation sequentially over the innermost surface to form a sequence of cleaned areas, the sequence of cleaned areas defining a stripe, the stripe following a continuous nonlinear path extending at least one circumference about the inner surface, the stripe having a stripe width W2; applying a bead of sealant in a continuous bead path extending at least one circumference about the inner surface, the bead of sealant at least partially overlaying the stripe. The invention is further directed to as such a self-sealing pneumatic tire.

A method for efficiently and completely removing a mold release agent adhering to a tire surface after a cure-molding process. In this method, the mold release agent is removed from an adherend region where an adherend is to be affixed to the tire surface after cure-molding. A laser light having an intensity capable of removing rubber on the tire surface in the adherend region is intermittently irradiated while it is moved along. Thus a plurality of dents are formed in the adherend region in such a manner that the adjoining dents have their edges overlapped with each other.