14.05.10 - Camber Tyre Technology - the next big thing?
I Hope we see this in Europe, Fast.
Hellaflush, VIP & and Heavy Camber Friendly??? YES PLEASE!!!
Recently named one of the ten most significant emerging technologies by US Magazine - Automobile Magazine.
Optima Sports LLC, an automotive and sports technology company, announces the release of the new patented CamberTire invention, which introduces a trapezoid profile and asymmetrical sidewalls into conventional tire design, bringing extensive benefits including handling/braking performance, safety and fuel efficiency. Camber designs can be utilized on any on-road and off-road vehicles with independent suspension or those with non-driven solid axle(s) – virtually impacting every tire category on the market today. The company's CamberTire brings major benefits to the automotive, over-the-road and trailer industries without production and distribution barriers, requiring only tire mold alterations and adjustments to alignment settings.
Introducing camber into a tire, and eliminating the need to have toe-in alignment settings, brings significant benefits including improved fuel efficiency, enhanced handling and performance and improved safety with decreased incidence of rollovers (ex SUVs). Environmental benefits are significant as well, with improved realized mileage due to a reduction in rolling resistance and wind profile, extended tire life and less material usage allowing narrower tire profiles to achieve desired handling characteristics with less weight.
The revolutionary camber tire design has broad market applications for every automobile category, over-the-road trucks (semi) and vehicles with non-driven solid axle vehicles, such as trailers or mini-vans.
CamberTire design benefits provide a new level of control, traction and sensitivity to high-performance, touring and every day tire applications including automobiles, SUVs, conventional trucks, recreational vehicles, semis, trailers, and a number of other off-road applications
According to John Robinson Scott, the company owner and the CamberTire inventor, “This advancement will revolutionize the tire industry and we are ready to bring it to market,” he said. “‘The benefits this design offers are significant to a traditionally slow changing industry – we have, literally, reinvented the wheel.”
Scott’s CamberTire patent includes any tires with a constantly decreasing diameter from one sidewall to the other. The patent covers any tires manufactured with any degree of camber. A recently filed second utility patent covers all conceivable methods for uniform camber tire production.
Don Sherman, technical editor of Automobile Magazine and contributor for the New York Times, recently conducted track tests of two-degree camber tires with 140 tread wear rating at two Midwest test tracks to compare them to conventional “square” tires. The results were extremely positive. “Now that we have enjoyed a few miles over the road on these tires and had the chance to conduct two preliminary performance tests, we are more convinced that the camber tire concept is worthy of our acclaim,” as stated by Sherman in a recent online Automobile Magazine article. The publication also rated the CamberTire as one of ten most significant emerging technologies in the June issue of the magazine.
SOURCE Optima Sports LLC http://www.cambertire.com/
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