Patent ID: 7093633

Claim:
A tire and rim combination wherein the tire is mounted on the rim, the tire having a carcass, a tread, and a belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of the carcass and radially inward of the tread, the carcass comprising a reinforcing ply structure extending between a pair of bead portions, each bead portion having a bead heel with the molded axial distance between the opposing bead heels being a distance BW, a pair of sidewalls, each sidewall located radially outward of one of the pair of bead portions, and a self-supporting run-flat insert located in each sidewall and the rim having a pair of opposing bead seats and opposing rim flanges, each bead seat and rim flange meeting at a junction, the axial distance between the junctions being a distance RW, the rim distance RW being greater or equal to the tire distance BW, wherein the tire is mounted on the rim such that the bead heel is in contact with the rim junction, and after inflation of the tire on the rim, the inserts are not subjected to additional stress upon inflation.