Patent ID: 7036543
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: B60B,B60C

Abstract:
1. A tire/wheel assembly having a run-flat support body inserted into a hollow part of a pneumatic tire, the run-flat support body including: an annular shell having an outer peripheral side thereof as a support surface and having an inner peripheral side thereof formed into fork-shaped open legs; and elastic rings supporting the end parts of the fork-shaped open legs on a rim, wherein bent parts are formed at the end parts of the annular shell where the annular shell is connected to the elastic rings, and the shape of the elastic rings in a cross section orthogonal to a circumferential direction is formed to have a barrel shape having bulges on both side faces, and wherein, in the cross section of each of the elastic rings, a maximum thickness of a part swelling from a first tangential line (L