Patent classifications
B60C15/0607
Heavy duty tire
A tire 2 includes a pair of beads 10, a carcass 12, a pair of steel reinforcing layers 20, a pair of fiber reinforcing layers 26, and a tag member 28. Each bead 10 includes an apex 40. A carcass ply 48 included in the carcass 12 includes a ply body 50 and a pair of turned-up portions 52. An outer end PR1 of each fiber reinforcing layer 26 is located between an end PF of the turned-up portion 52 and an outer end PA of the apex 40. An RFID tag 62 of the tag member 28 is located between the end PF of the turned-up portion 52 and the outer end PA of the apex 40. In the fiber reinforcing layer 26, an outer end 60f of a second reinforcing ply 60 is located radially outward of an outer end 58f of a first reinforcing ply 58.
Pneumatic tire
A pneumatic tire includes a circumferentially continuous recess in at least one sidewall outer surface. In a meridian cross-section, an area A of a region surrounded by outlines of the sidewall and a bead and a tangent line, an area S of a region surrounded by the outlines of the sidewall and the bead, a carcass body, a perpendicular line L2, a perpendicular line L3, and a thickness G1 of a bead filler measured along the perpendicular line L2 satisfy 0.10(G117)A/(S+A)0.05(G110), the tangent line being straight and contacting the outlines of the sidewall and the bead, a contact point being where the tangent line and the sidewall outline contact, the perpendicular line L2 being straight and passing through a turned-up edge of a carcass and perpendicularly intersecting the carcass body, the perpendicular line L3 being straight and passing through the contact point and perpendicularly intersecting the carcass body.
Pneumatic tire with optimized crown and bead architectures
A tire comprises, in the central part of its crown, at least one undulation (51) of the radially outermost crown layer, having a radial amplitude A at least equal to 1 mm. At least one bead comprises, aside from the radial carcass layer and the bead wire, a radial reinforcing element that is such that the axial distance between the radial reinforcing element and the axially innermost carcass layer is at least equal to 1 mm and at most equal to 12 mm at the point of the radial reinforcing element that is situated 30 mm from the radially innermost point of the bead wire, for a better trade-off between the stiffness of the undulating crown and of the bead.
Heavy duty tire
An object of the present invention is to provide a heavy duty tire having improved fuel efficiency, wet grip performance, abrasion resistance, chipping resistance, and tear resistance with good balance. The heavy duty comprises a carcass extending from a tread part through a sidewall part to a bead core of a bead part and a belt layer arranged outside in a tire radial direction of the carcass and inside of the tread part, wherein the tread has a cap rubber layer and a base rubber layer, the cap rubber layer comprises a predetermined rubber component and silica and the loss tangent tan of the base rubber layer is within a predetermined range.