Massive savings to be made by a different concept of the Tyre.
Good things to come.
Self checking tyres that can measure axle weights and Tyre pressure.
No more blowouts or rubber alligators littering the highways.
Improved fuel costs.
Great things to come.
Goodyear wins grant to develop self-inflating tiresRobert Schoenberger, The Plain Dealer By Robert Schoenberger, The Plain Dealer on August 19, 2011 at 6:00 AM, updated September 19, 2012 at 10:56 AM Email Email Brought to you by 19FGTIRE.jpgView full size James Owens/The Plain DealerCLEVELAND, Ohio – Say goodbye to tire gauges and pumps. If a new technology under development at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co . works, tires will inflate themselves in the future. “There’s not going to be any kind of electronic system inside the tire,” Goodyear spokesman Kerry Christopher said. “The tire itself would become the pump.” Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Energy gave Goodyear a $1.5 million grant to develop the self-inflating tire for commercial trucks. Christopher said that development work is taking place in Akron. Goodyear is working on a similar system for consumer tires at research facilities in Europe. If Goodyear can get the system to work, it could be a game changer in commercial vehicles, said John Woodroofe, head of vehicle safety analytics at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute . “Having a device in the tire that would guarantee inflation would be tremendous,” Woodroofe said. Properly inflated tires are safer, they last longer and they improve fuel economy , he added.Updated coverage Goodyear shows off self-inflating truck tires at European technology show On 18-wheel trucks, when pressure on one or two tires drops, the result is usually big blowouts that leave “rubber alligators” scattered across the highway. Woodroofe said truck suppliers sell systems that can monitor tire pressure and pump air in from pressurized tanks, but such equipment is expensive and hasn’t gained much popularity. Christopher declined to say how Goodyear’s system will work, saying the company is keeping the details secret for competitive reasons. But patent applications filed by Goodyear engineers point to ways that self-inflating tires could be made. giant-tire.jpgView full size Goodyear Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.Goodyear already has a thriving commercial tire business. Company officials said a self-inflating tire could save its fleet customers significant amounts of money in maintenance and fuel usage. One application envisions a hollow rubber tube that would run along the inside of the tire . An inlet port would pull outside air into that tube. As the tire rolls, the bottom of the tube would squeeze shut, forcing air forward much in the same way twisting the middle of a long balloon creates a big bubble on one end. That air bubble would travel along the inside of the tire to a valve. If the air pressure inside the tire was low, the valve would open, allowing the bubble to flow inside. If the pressure was good, the bubble would continue to travel through the tube until it went back out of the inlet port. Under that system, every time your wheel turned, the tire could be inflating itself. Woodroofe said the system sounds ingenious because it uses the forces that often cause tires to go flat to keep them full. The rapid changes in pressure caused by driving can often lead air to leak. “If we can find a way to prevent a partial loss in pressure, that would be a fairly sizeable benefit,” Woodroofe said. Goodyear estimates that keeping truck tires fully inflated at all times could boost fuel economy by as much as 3.3 percent a year. While that figure may sound small, Woodroofe said it could lead to sizeable savings given how poor truck fuel economy tends to be and how many miles trucks drive every year. The company did not say how expensive the new tires would be or how long it would take to develop the technology.
My eyes hurt. Try pressing this occasionally…
Make that change.
Start using your head
My eyes hurt too. Is this about Central Tyre Inflation?
That’s been used on trucks for years, loggers in particular.
We check tyre pressures daily, and find they rarely deviate from what they were initially filled to.
Whilst the tyre pressures are checked, the tyre condition is also checked.
If this Ross bloke the most long winded troll ever to grace trucknet?? He is actually more boring than carry fast.
Thank you for your,comments.
You can call me what my enemy calls me.
Mr T Watt.
Mr D River
Your probably reading this because you didn’t do very well at school. 
Don’t feed the troll.
He just talks nonsense.
I’m new to this.
I asked my friend what,troll means,
I forgotten it.
Can you please remind everybody.
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Ross v stobart:
Please raise any concerns you have,with the moderator.
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Delete my account.
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Id get the message.
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Your input is welcome, however I wouldn’t recommend randomly copying and pasting stuff that you find on American websites!
Ross keep calm dear do consider that article is long enough to form a CPC module you could present it in front of 20 drivers and make a few bucks.
Oh a few dollars more.
Sounds like a country and western.
yee har cowboy.
Gidi up.
LoL.
Were all having a laugh at the comments on this site
they can be a little nasty sometimes.
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