Tyre for racing car

The development of a specialized asphalt compound and wedged tread design for Formula 1 tires, combined with a proposed protective halo, addresses the inadequate safety measures for high-speed vehicles, enhancing traction, stability, and driver protection.

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Application Number
PCT/IT2023/000036
Authority / Receiving Office
WO · WO
Patent Type
Applications
Current Assignee / Owner
Priority Date
2023-11-06
Filing Date
2023-11-15
Publication Date
2025-05-22

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Technical Problem

Current safety measures for high-speed vehicles, such as Formula 1 cars, are inadequate to prevent accidents and injuries due to the high exposure of drivers at high speeds.

Method used

Development of a new asphalt compound for tires that enhances grip on both wet and dry surfaces, reducing stopping and braking distances, and a wedged tread design for Formula 1 tires, along with the proposal of a protective halo for drivers' heads.

Benefits of technology

The new asphalt compound and wedged tread design improve tire traction and stability, reducing the risk of accidents and injuries, while the proposed halo provides additional head protection for drivers at high speeds.

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Abstract

A tyre for a racing car, the tyre having a tread, i.e. consisting of ribs and grooves for improved water drainage; and a curved cross- sectional shape of the tread land portions.
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Description

[0001] DESCRIPTION

[0002] The project was conceived in August 2016, after having witnessed the numerous Grands Prixes from the stands. The car moves like a bullet therefore it needs more suitable and sufficient safety measures. I have created a series of projects, including a rim whose graphics were delivered to the anti-mafia department to protect myself, considering that it was difficult for me to even patent it in Catania. I thought of a new asphalt compound specifically for tyres that could reduce the risk of impacts and therefore of accidents and consequent mortality. In fact, the tire has greater grip on the asphalt Wet and dry and shows good technical characteristics. In fact its specifications allow it to reduce stopping and braking distances and avoid twisting and skidding. As an architect, I could have acted on some components of the single-seater, certainly not on the engine, so I acted as best I could, trying to draw the interstices of a tire which later turned out to be the first one with a wedged tread for Formula 1. The Drawing even appears aesthetically pleasing in its soft and wide lines, despite the width of the wheel, out of proportion compared to that of a city car.

[0003] Note

[0004] My love for Formula 1 manifested since I was a child had its epilogue in safety and therefore in the protection of PPE (personal protective equipment) together with the halo which I proposed, in broad terms, as a solution to protect the drivers' heads, space made vulnerable, especially at these high speeds because it is too exposed.

[0005] Having experienced the paddock live, and met all the drivers with whom I formed a good friendship, together with the Formulal journalists, it seemed right to me to take care of safety and think about safeguarding their lives as best I could. I considered sending my drawing by social media, not believing I could do better. Not being a mechanical engineer, although I know physics very well because I am the daughter of an electrotechnical engineer, I sent the project by facebook in 2017 on to Lello Soncini, an old man, whom I knew little . He had allowed me to visit the paddocks at the end of the races and he was a former technical commissioner of Ferrari in Fl,

[0006] The hacked profile instead reports 27 October 2018 in reference to the screenshot, where I asked him to test it with the appropriate machinery, through companies he knows. I asked him because I didn't have the right equipment to test the technical requirements my self. I would have been then my interest to patent it, if it had good technical specifications.

Claims

ClaimSubject: authorship of the Eagles asymmetric 5.8 - F1 tire projectHereby the undersigned Ivana Inzalaco, born in Catania (Italy) on 27 October 1974 as an Architect; Degree in Architecture in 1999 obtained in Palermo, on 27 July, with a score of 110 / 110, qualification ini 2000, registered with the Order of Architects / Planners and Landscape Designers of the province of Catania, mob. +39.3518950517; P.1.06020050875 n° 2014 ivana.inzalaco@archiworldpec.it or ivana.inzalaco20@gmail.com claims ownership of the project and the protection of the consequent rights. For the right of exclusivity inherent to it and for law 2424 n°4 for the protection of an industrial invention and for the exclusive right connected to it (art c.c. 2563) for the protection of industrial property (art. 45-81) resulting of studies, meticulous and wise, underlying the cause and advantage of resources.used as strategies for the common good, which have no right to be violated because they are intellectual property. Television rights and all social media rights are required, which can be postponed over time. International visibility to the undersigned, to date, abjured. It is formally requested that the project be recognized and the rights to it recognized, on all’ official sites together with the financial) compensation. The Eagles 8.5 Asymmetric fl tire does not require a mudguard in Formula 1 because water would fall on it and invalidate the function for which it was designed. This could significantly reduce performance by 40%. The peculiarity of this project lies in the exclusivity of having technical specifications valid on both dry and wet asphalt, surprisingly even overcoming aquaplaning and eliminating all sorts of risks.RelationAsymmetric RG 5 EAGLES Tire ProjectFor Pirelli FlThe tire project was designed to overcome aquaplaning in August 2016 and then designed in September 2017. It is called "break drop” according to a construction principle that allows the wedged tread to disperse the water outwards and upwards, It was created for Formula 1 single-seaters, but is applied, with modifications if tested, to city cars. I consider the interconnection between the GES(SPORT MANAGEMENT) of formula 1 cars and the automotive factories. It follows that principle according to which, in fact, the structures of the buildings, in the galleries (or under the balcony slab) have a slit, along the entire outer perimeter, designed to break the drop of water and not penetrate it, to the point of invalidating the structure, making it morevulnerable so much so that it cannot resist traction, if it weakens the steel rods, and compression if it damages the concrete, corroding it This is the basis of construction science, timely to safeguard reinforced concrete. The columns, at the time of the Greeks, take up this principle, in the moldings alternating between the trochilus-taurus and the taurus, designed to deflect the water towards the outside. A principle that has maintained them over time. I have omitted the vertical lines to instead highlight a small jump in height drop which also serves to break the flow. The choice, however, is to lift it and direct it upwards at high speeds. The project follows the laws of physics (statics) against skidding and slipping and gives greater grip to the asphalt To this, I added a small internal water drainage system, with flow through the part underneath the rim. I only transcribed a few quote asper the graphics I attach, reporting the numbers, 5 and 8, cyclically.I attach the sketch below.

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