B60C2011/0033

TIRE/WHEEL ASSEMBLY
20230117713 · 2023-04-20 · ·

A tire/wheel assembly of the present disclosure includes a tire with a tread portion and a wheel with a rim. The tire is mounted on the rim, and the tire/wheel assembly includes a power reception coil. In the contact patch when the tire/wheel assembly is filled to a prescribed internal pressure and subjected to the maximum load, the rectangle ratio of the ground contact length at a position, in the tire width direction, located 10% of the ground contact width inward in the tread width direction from an edge in the tire width direction to the ground contact length at the center of the contact patch in the tire width direction is 50% or more.

MOTORCYCLE TIRE
20220324260 · 2022-10-13 · ·

A motorcycle tire includes a tread rubber that includes a base rubber layer and a cap rubber layer disposed outward in the tire radial direction of the base rubber layer to form a ground contact surface. The cap rubber layer includes a crown cap portion disposed in a middle region in the tire axial direction of a tread portion and a pair of shoulder cap portions disposed in both sides in the tire axial direction of the crown cap portion. The crown cap portion has a loss tangent tan δc, the shoulder cap portions have a loss tangent tan δs, and the base rubber layer has a loss tangent tan δb, wherein the loss tangents tan δc, tan δs and tan δb satisfy the following equation (1): tan δc<tan δs≤tan δb . . . (1).

PNEUMATIC TIRE
20230115117 · 2023-04-13 ·

In a pneumatic tire including belt layers in a tread portion, the belt layers include a cross belt pair in which reinforcing cords constituting the belt layers intersect each other between layers, a distance between a tire outer surface and an end point of the cross belt pair measured in parallel to a line segment connecting a ground contact edge and an edge portion on the outer side of the outermost groove in the width direction on an outer surface of the tread portion satisfies 15 mm≤D1≤25 mm, a distance between the belt layer and a carcass layer at a position corresponding to an outer end point in an effective width of the cross belt pair satisfies 2.5 mm≤G1≤9.0 mm, and a ratio between a height Hα from a core separation point to a maximum outer diameter position of the carcass layer and a height Hβ to the maximum width position satisfies 0.55≤Hβ/Hα≤0.65.

Two-wheeled vehicle tyre
11465447 · 2022-10-11 · ·

A two-wheeled vehicle tyre includes a tread portion being provided with a belt layer and a tread rubber disposed radially outwardly of the belt layer. The belt layer includes steel cords oriented along a tyre circumferential direction. The tread rubber includes a cap rubber forming a tread surface and a base rubber disposed radially inwardly of the cap rubber, wherein 300% modulus (M300c) of the cap rubber is greater than 300% modulus (M300b) of the base rubber, and loss tangent (tan δc) of the cap rubber is smaller than loss tangent (tan δb) of the base rubber.

PNEUMATIC TIRE
20230070678 · 2023-03-09 · ·

A pneumatic tire having a tread reinforcing component disposed between a tire inner cavity surface and a tire ground contacting surface, and made of a thermoplastic resin. On an arbitrary reference line which extends across the tread reinforcing component in parallel with the tire equator, a distance L1 in the tire radial direction from the tire inner cavity surface to the thickness center point of the tread reinforcing component is in a range of 50% to 95% of a distance L0 in the tire radial direction from the tire inner cavity surface to the tire ground contacting surface.

TIRE
20220314698 · 2022-10-06 · ·

Provided is a tire having excellent rolling resistance and improved pass-by noise performance. The tire is a pneumatic tire comprising a side rubber provided on an outer side of a carcass in a tire width direction, in a sidewall portion, wherein a thickness of the side rubber in the tire width direction at a tire maximum width position is 1 mm or more, and a ratio 0° C. tan δ/30° C. tan δ of 0° C. tan δ to 30° C. tan δ of the side rubber is 2.00 or more, where the 0° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 0° C., and the 30° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 30° C.

TIRE
20220314699 · 2022-10-06 · ·

Provided is a tire having excellent rolling resistance and improved pass-by noise performance. A tire comprises a tread portion that includes a base rubber and a cap rubber located on an outer side of the base rubber in a tire radial direction, wherein a thickness of the base rubber in the tire radial direction is 1 mm or more, 30° C. tan δ of the base rubber is 0.20 or less, and a ratio 0° C. tan δ/30° C. tan δ of 0° C. tan δ to 30° C. tan δ of the base rubber is 2.90 or more, where the 30° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 30° C., and the 0° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 0° C.

RUBBER COMPOUNDS FOR HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK AND BUS TIRE TREADS AND METHODS RELATING THERETO

A rubber compound for heavy-duty truck or bus tire treads may comprise: 5 to 100 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight rubber (phr) of a long chain branched cyclopentene ring opening rubber (LCB-CPR) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of −120° C. to −80° C., a g′vis of 0.50 to 0.91, and a ratio of cis-to-trans of 40:60 to 5:95; 0 phr to 95 phr of a rubber selected from a group consisting of a natural rubber (NR), a polybutadiene rubber (BR), and a combination thereof; 30 phr to 90 phr of a reinforcing filler; and 0.5 phr to 20 phr of a process oil.

Tire comprising working layers having an improved architecture

Tire comprising at least one working layer (41). The radially outermost one thereof comprises at least one undulation (412) radially on the outside of the points of the working layer (41) that are in line with the centre of the bottom face (243) of the major groove (24) closest to undulation (412). The undulation (412) of the radially outermost working layer (41) is such that, over at least 10% of the radially outer surface (ROS) of the said working layer (41), the radial distance (do) between the radially outer surface (ROS) and the tread surface (21) is at least 1 mm less than the radial distance (dc) between the radially outer surface (ROS) and the tread surface (21), which is the distance in line with the centre of the bottom face (243) of the major groove (24) closest to the said undulation (412).

TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE

The present invention aims to provide tire rubber composition with significantly improved overall performance in terms of wet grip performance and fuel economy, and pneumatic tires including the rubber compositions. The tire rubber compositions of the present invention have a tan δ versus temperature curve whose peak tan δ and half width satisfy the following relationship (1): Peak tan δ/Half width ≥ 0.025 (1).