B60C11/1656

STUDDED TYRE HAVING GROOVES

A tyre includes a tread having tread blocks such that grooves are arranged between the tread blocks and studs installed into at least some of the tread blocks. The tread blocks define a land portion of the tread, and an envelope surface consisting of the land portion of the tread and a sea portion. An average land ratio of the tyre defined as a ratio of total land area to total envelope area, is 55% to 78%.

Tire Mold and Pneumatic Tire
20180022047 · 2018-01-25 ·

A tire mold comprises sector molds for forming a tread portion of a tire and mold pins provided on the sector molds for forming insertion holes in the tread portion. The insertion holes each comprise a first hole portion with a first inner diameter where a body portion of a stud pin is disposed and a second hole portion with a second inner diameter greater than the first inner diameter where a bottom flange portion of the stud pin is disposed. The mold pins each comprise a trunk portion with a first outer diameter for forming the first hole portion and a tip portion with a second outer diameter greater than the first outer diameter for forming the second hole portion.

Pneumatic Tire
20170157993 · 2017-06-08 ·

A pneumatic tire includes stud pins inserted into holes disposed in the tire surface. The stud pins each include a body portion and a flange disposed closer to the bottom side of each of the holes than the body portion and having an outer diameter larger than the body portion. The holes each include a securing portion coming into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the body portion of the stud pin to secure the stud pin and an enlarged diameter portion disposed closer to the bottom wall side of the hole than the securing portion, having an inner diameter larger than the securing portion, and coming into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the flange of the stud pin to secure the stud pin. The side wall of the enlarged diameter portion is provided with a protrusion protruding toward the interior of the hole.

STUD TIRE
20170144490 · 2017-05-25 ·

A studded tire includes stud pins embedded in a road contact surface of a tread portion 1; the rubber composition forming the tread portion containing at least one of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, and butadiene rubber, from 5 to 50 parts by weight of carbon black and from 5 to 70 parts by weight of silica per 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber; a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of the carbon black being from 50 to 120 m.sup.2/g; a CTAB specific surface area of the silica being from 80 to 190 m.sup.2/g; a rubber hardness of the rubber composition being not greater than 60; and a product of a stress at the time of 400% elongation and a bottom surface area of a flange portion on a bottom side of the stud pins being not less than 400 MPa.Math.mm.sup.2 and not greater than 850 MPa.Math.mm.sup.2.