US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Sept. 9 for "Method and test bench for predicting pressure oscillations in a vehicle tire" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,055, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and test bench for predicting pressure oscillations in a vehicle tire" was invented by Jens Eisenbeiss (Fuerstenzell, Germany) and Roland Bosl (Neuburg am Inn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test bench and a method to predict pressure oscillations in a vehicle tire. The tire is rotatably positioned, via a bearing on a test bench rim, the tire is pressurized with fluid, a load is applied on the tire, the tire is accelerated according to pre-determinable speed ramp to a final speed, the fluid in accordance with the tire speed, u...