Patent ID: 8291950

Claim:
A tire assembly comprising: a tire body having a tire cavity between first and second sidewalls that extend respectively from a pair of annular tire core bead cores to a tire tread region; an air tube body extending between an outward facing tire body surface and an inward tire body surface, the air tube body having an enclosed hollow outlet end at a first end of the air tube body and an enclosed hollow inlet end at an opposite second end of the air tube body, and an air passageway extending through the air tube body from the inlet end to the outlet end, the outlet end being positioned to face, at least partially exposed, toward the tire cavity and the inlet end being positioned to face outward and away from the tire at least partially exposed; and wherein the air tube body path at least partially surrounds a first tire body bead core; wherein the air tube body is integrally formed of resilient flexible material composition, follows a non-linear path between the outward tire body surface and the inward tire body surface, and is positioned between first and second tire turnup components.