A tire-enhancement product has a container comprising a dissolvable packaging material; and a solute encased in the container that is inert to the solute. The container is configured to be placed in an interior volume of a tire, to which solvent can be added. The container is configured to dissolve when placed in a predetermined solvent, and the solute is configured to mix with the solvent to form a tire-enhancement mixture.

Disclosed herein are kits for use in adding degradable foam to a tire, methods for preparing a degradable foam-containing tire, tires containing degradable foam, and methods for degrading the degradable foam in tires containing degradable foam. The degradable foam comprises a combination of (i) at least one di- or polyisocyanate, (ii) at least one polysiloxane diol, at least one polysiloxane diamine, or a combination thereof, and (iii) optionally at least one polyol.

Provided is a sealant composition that makes it possible to suppress a flow of a sealant associated with travel while maintaining good sealing properties. As a sealant composition constituting a sealant layer (10) disposed on the inner surface of a pneumatic tire, the following are used: a sealant composition demonstrating a tensile stress at 20% elongation at 23° C. of 0.03 MPa or less and a tensile stress at 20% elongation at 80° C. of 0.002 MPa; or a sealant composition demonstrating a viscosity V.sub.0 at 0° C. of from 2 kPa.Math.s to 15 kPa s, a viscosity V.sub.40 at 40° C. of from 1 kPa s to 14 kPa s, and a viscosity V.sub.80 at 80° C. of from 0.5 kPa.Math.s to 12 kPa.Math.s.

In the pneumatic tire including a sealant layer containing an adhesive sealant on an inner surface of a tread portion, when a thickness of the sealant layer at 0° C. is G.sub.0, a thickness of the sealant layer at 50° C. is G.sub.50, a width of the sealant layer at 0° C. is W.sub.0, and a width of the sealant layer at 50° C. is W.sub.50, a rate of change R.sub.G of thickness expressed by R.sub.G=(|G.sub.50−G.sub.0|/G.sub.0)×100 is set to 3% or less, and a rate of change R.sub.W of width expressed by R.sub.W=(|W.sub.50−W.sub.0|/W.sub.0)×100 is set to 3% or less.

A pneumatic tire is vulcanized using a bladder provided with a coating layer formed of a release agent, and includes a sealant layer disposed on an inner surface of a tread portion in a tire circumferential direction, the release agent having a thickness of from 0.1 μm to 100 μm in at least a placement region of the sealant layer, detected using an electron microscope.

Tires having a magnetic tire sealing material containing magnetic particles are described for detecting the presence of one or more sealed punctures in the tire. The tires can have a sealed tire portion that is formed by the magnetic tire sealing material flowing into and filling a puncture in the tire. The sealed tire portion includes a portion having magnetic particles and the portion being at the outer surface of the tire such as in the tread area. The tire can be positioned within the detection zone of an apparatus capable of detecting magnetic particles to indicate whether the tire contains a sealed puncture filled with the magnetic tire sealing material.

A tire having an adhesive sealant applied to the radial interior of the tire in the region of the belt reinforcements of the crown with a noise-dampening foam ring having circumferential grooves in the radial outside surface of the foam is applied to the adhesive sealant. The grooves of the foam are laterally aligned with the circumferential grooves of the tire such that the foam touches the sealant on areas that are not laterally aligned with the longitudinal grooves of the tire.

The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for manufacturing an HSST tyre, as well as the HSST tyre manufactured by the same. The process for manufacturing an HSST tyre includes a cleaning step, a spraying step, and a forced-cooling step. The cleaning step includes an air-drying procedure for evaporating the isopropanol solution on the tyre to be treated with air-drying gases. The forced-cooling step is configured to forcibly cool the tyre to be treated that has been sprayed with the high molecular organic material. By means of accurate design for each step and procedure, the relying on operator's experience is eliminated and thus the performance stability of the HSST tyre is guaranteed. By means of the air-cooling procedure and the forced-cooling step, the time taken to manufacture an HSST tyre is substantially shortened, making it possible to produce the HSST tyre in a large scale.

Tires having an electrically conductive tire sealing material containing metallic electrically conductive particles are described for detecting the presence of one or more sealed puncture areas in the tire. The tires can have a sealed tire portion that is formed by the electrically conductive tire sealing material flowing into and filling a puncture in the tire. The sealed tire portion includes a portion having electrically conductive particles and the portion being at the outer surface of the tire such as in the tread area. The tire can be positioned to be in contact with a conductive section of an apparatus capable of measuring electrical conductivity.

This disclosure relates to an approach for monitoring a tire for a puncture based on a change in a voltage established based on a resistance of a material disposed within the tire. In one example, the material is a conductive material layer. In another example, the material is a resistive strip. The systems and methods described herein can monitor for a change in an established voltage over time that is a function of parameters including the resistance of the conductive material layer or the resistive strip, and an applied voltage, to provide an indication of the change in the resistance in the material. The change in resistance of the material can be indicative of the puncture within the tire. The systems and methods described herein can alert a vehicle operator of the puncture within the tire.