A wheel assembly of a vehicle (e.g., a forklift or another material-handling vehicle) is monitored to obtain information regarding the vehicle, including information regarding the wheel assembly, which may be indicative of how the vehicle including the wheel assembly is used (e.g., a duty cycle of the vehicle and/or the wheel assembly), a state (e.g., a degree of wear) of the wheel assembly, loading and shocks on the wheel assembly, and/or a state of an environment (e.g., environmental temperature, a profile, compliance, or other condition of an underlying surface beneath the wheel assembly), and which may be, for example, conveyed to a user (e.g., an operator of the vehicle), transmitted to a remote party (e.g., a provider), and/or used to control the vehicle (e.g., a speed of the vehicle). This may improve use, maintenance, safety and/or other aspects of the vehicle, including the wheel assembly.

A computer-implemented method of predicting tire pressure of a tire of an aircraft, the method including obtaining first data indicative of an inflation pressure of the tire, obtaining second data indicative of a brake temperature of a brake associated with an aircraft wheel to which the tire is mounted, obtaining third data indicative of a gas temperature of the tire, and obtaining fourth data indicative of one or more predicted operational conditions of the aircraft during a future time period. The method includes determining, based at least in part on the first, second, third and fourth data, predicted tire pressure characteristics of the tire during the future time period.

An anti-ozone protective composition for a crosslinked rubber article; is based on at least one chlorinated elastomer, at least one hydrocarbon solvent and at least one polar aprotic solvent. A rubber article comprises at least one elastomeric surface in contact with air, said surface being completely or partly coated with said composition.

A tire includes a carcass ply extending from one bead structure to another bead structure. Each bead structure includes a plurality of circumferentially wound sheath layers surrounding a bead core with a triangular cross-section. The cross-section has two radially inner vertices and a radially outer vertex. The radially outer vertex and one of the radially inner vertices are an angular amount radially offset from a directly radial direction of the tire.

A wear amount estimation device estimates plural kinds of wear energy depending on each of an internal pressure of aircraft tires, a load acting on the aircraft tires, a velocity of an aircraft, a slip angle caused in the aircraft tires, and a braking force of the aircraft, in accordance with each of these elements and wear energy EFR of the aircraft tires in a state of a free rolling run The wear amount estimation device estimates the wear amount wear of the aircraft tires in accordance with each of the calculated wear energy and a wear resistance R indicating a relationship between predetermined wear energy and a predetermined wear amount.

A tire for use under heavy loads and high speeds includes a tread, a crown reinforcement, a carcass reinforcement with at least one ply wound about a pair of bead cores, and a cut/puncture resistant breaker layer disposed radially adjacent the crown reinforcement and radially inside the tread. The cut/puncture resistant breaker layer is formed of monofilaments inclined at between about 0 degrees and about 10 degrees relative to an equatorial plane of the tire.

A component life prediction system configured to predict the remaining life of a consumable component installed on an aircraft. The system includes a processor configured to: receive wear information indicative of a current wear state of the component; receive schedule information indicative of a future flight schedule for the aircraft; and determine the remaining life of the component based on the received wear information and the received schedule information.

A tire management apparatus includes a remaining tread amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a remaining tread amount of tires, a traveling information acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information of moving objects to which the tires are attached, a replacement time calculation unit configured to calculate a replacement time of the tires in accordance with the remaining tread amount and the traveling information, and a notification unit configured to notify a particular notification target of information on the number of the tires to be replaced at the replacement time when the number exceeds a threshold.

An aircraft tire has a pair of bead sections, sidewall sections extending from the bead sections, and a tread section extending between the sidewall sections; the aircraft tire includes an RFID tag having a tag main body (IC chip) configured to store information about the aircraft tire, and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein, in a tread surface view, the antenna is disposed such that an extending direction of the antenna is parallel to a tire width direction or intersects the tire width direction within a predetermined angle range, and the aircraft tire satisfies a configuration 0.1<L/W<0.2, where a width of the aircraft tire is denoted as “W” and a total length of the antenna in the extending direction of the antenna is denoted as “L”, and when a diameter of the aircraft tire is 21 inches or more.

An aircraft tire has a pair of bead sections, sidewall sections extending from outer side in a radial direction of the bead sections, and a tread section extending between the sidewall sections; the aircraft tire includes an RFID tag having a tag main body (IC chip) configured to store an information about the aircraft tire and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein, when a diameter size of the aircraft tire is 15 inches or less, in a tread surface view, the antenna is disposed such that the antenna is parallel to a tire circumferential direction or intersects the tire circumferential direction within a predetermined angle range, and a belt part disposed in the tread section is made of non-metal material.