Patent ID: 9533533
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B60C

Claim:
1. An air maintenance tire system comprising: a tire having an elongate tire groove formed to extend into a flexing region of a tire sidewall, the groove having a profiled internal geometry; an elongate air pumping tube having an internal elongate air passageway and an external geometric shape substantially complementing the tire groove internal geometry for operably enabling a receipt of the air pumping tube into the tire groove; the air pumping tube having at least one access shaft formed therein extending from an outward surface to a check valve seat positioned at a depth within the air pumping tube substantially in line with the air passageway; a check valve device configured to insert into the access shaft and seat within the check valve seat in alignment with the air passageway; a plug component substantially filling the access shaft to a depth of the check valve device whereby occupying the access shaft.