Patent classifications
B60C2009/228
TIRE COMPRISING AN OPTIMIZED ARCHITECTURE
A tire (10) for a vehicle comprises a radially outermost working layer (41) which comprises at least one undulation (412) in line with a central rib (251) of the tread (2). The undulation (412) is radially on the outside of the points of the working layer (41) in line with the bottom face (243) of the circumferential groove (24) closest to the undulation (412) and has an amplitude of at least 1 mm. The undulation (412) is vertically in line above at least one local reinforcing layer (6) comprising reinforcing elements that are mutually parallel and make with the circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire an angle of which the absolute value is at most equal to 5°.
PNEUMATIC MOTORCYCLE TIRE
The pneumatic motorcycle tire includes a spiral belt, wherein: an aspect ratio of the tire is 60% or more; at a standard condition, each lap of reinforcing cords is located at a constant spacing along a periphery of the spiral belt among the entire tire width direction; in the tire widthwise cross section, a spacing A along the periphery of the spiral belt between each lap of the reinforcing cords adjacent in the tire width direction is 3.5 mm or more and 6.0 mm or less; a spacing B along the periphery of the spiral belt between the two reinforcing cords for forming the strip member is 0.8 mm or more and 1.5 mm or less; and a rupture strength of one of the reinforcing cords is 200 N or more and 1000 N or less.
PNEUMATIC RADIAL TIRE
A pneumatic radial tire includes belt layers disposed on an outer circumferential side of a carcass layer in a tread portion. The belt layers are formed of steel cords in a N+M structure in which the number of wire strands N of an inner layer is 2 to 4 and the number of wire strands M of an outer layer is 2 to 7. A twist direction of the inner layer is different from a twist direction of the outer layer. The steel cords are inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction to intersect each other in layers of the belt layers. A belt cover layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the belt layers is formed of organic fiber cords having elongation of 2.0% to 4.0% under 2.0 cN/dtex load. The organic fiber cords are wound spirally along the tire circumferential direction.
PNEUMATIC TIRE
In a pneumatic tire, a belt cover layer is provided on an outer circumferential side of a belt layer in a tread portion and includes organic fiber cords helically wound along a tire circumferential direction. As the organic fiber cord, a polyethylene terephthalate fiber cord is used which has a single yarn size fineness of 700 dtex or less and in which the number of twists is 30 twists or more/100 mm. A layer thickness of the belt cover layer is 1.6 times or more as large as a cord diameter of the organic fiber cord.
Module Hooping Reinforcement for a Tire of a Heavy Duty Civil Engineering Vehicle
A radial tire (1) for a heavy-duty vehicle of construction plant type, and aims to increase the rupture strength of the hoop reinforcement thereof having circumferential layers, ensuring satisfactory endurance of the crown reinforcement thereof. According to the invention, the at least one circumferential hooping layer (71, 72) comprises a median portion (711, 721) having a median width (L11, L21) and a median tensile elastic modulus (E11, E21), and two lateral portions (712, 722) that axially extend the median portion (711, 721) on either side and each have a lateral width (L12, L22) and a lateral tensile elastic modulus (E12, E22), the lateral width (L12, L22) is at least equal to 0.05 times the median width (L11, L21), and the lateral tensile elastic modulus (E12, E22) is at most equal to 0.9 times the median tensile elastic modulus (E11, E21).
PNEUMATIC TIRE
In a pneumatic tire according to an embodiment, a belt layer is configured such that the angle of a belt cord relative to the tire circumferential direction is more than 30° and 40° or less. An organic fiber cord of a belt-reinforcing layer, which is placed on the radially outer side of the belt layer, is configured such that when the number of twists per 10 cm length is T (twists/10 cm), the fineness is D (dtex), and the fiber density is ρ (g/cm.sup.3), the twist coefficient K defined as T×(D/ρ).sup.1/2 is 900 to 2,600, and the product of the load at 5% elongation LASE 5% (N) of the organic fiber cord and the end count E (cords/25 mm) of the organic fiber cord is 1,000 N or more.
TRUCK TIRE
A pneumatic tire for use on trucks, the tire comprising: a tread which includes a belt reinforcement structure, the belt structure including a pair of working belts, wherein the angle of the working belts range from about 10 degrees to about 50 degrees, and wherein the first working belt has an angle of the reinforcements different that the angle of the belt reinforcements of the second working belt. The belt package further includes a low angle belt that is preferably positioned between of the working belts, wherein the angle of the low angle belt is less than 5 degrees. The working belts and the low angle belt are extensible, and preferably made of high elongation wire. The pneumatic tire further includes a wherein the tread is formed of a treadcap compound having a tensile at break greater than 18 MPa, and an elongation at break greater than 450%.
TRUCK TIRE
A pneumatic tire for use on trucks, the tire comprising: a tread which includes a belt reinforcement structure, the belt structure including a pair of working belts, wherein the angle of the working belts range from about 10 degrees to about 50 degrees, and wherein the first working belt has an angle of the reinforcements different that the angle of the belt reinforcements of the second working belt. The belt package further includes a low angle belt that is preferably positioned between of the working belts. The pneumatic tire further includes a tread having a groove reinforced with a tread compound having a tensile at break greater than 18 MPa, and an elongation at break greater than 450%.
Highly compressible open cord
A cord (50) comprises a single layer (52) of helically wound metal filamentary elements (54). The metal filamentary elements define an internal enclosure (58) of the cord of diameter Dv. Each metal filamentary element (54) has a diameter Df and a helix radius of curvature Rf. With Dv, Df and Rf being expressed in millimetres, the cord satisfies the following relationships: 9≤Rf/Df≤30 and 1.30≤Dv/Df≤2.10.
TIRE
On a tread of the pneumatic tire, circumferential grooves extending along the tire circumferential direction are formed. The spiral belt has a reinforcing cord wound in the tire circumferential direction. The tensile elongation at break of the reinforcing cord is 10 cN/dtex or more, and the elongation at break of the reinforcing cord is 13% or less. The spiral belt is formed by winding a cord unit, in which a plurality of reinforcing cords are arranged along the tire width direction, around the tire circumferential direction. The width of the cord unit in the tire width direction is narrower than the width GW of the circumferential groove in the tire width direction.