Pneumatic Vehicle Tyres

Abstract

A pneumatic vehicle tire (1) having a profiled tread (2) that merges at either side into sidewalls (3), the end of which is formed by a tire bead (5, 6) insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim (7) of a vehicle wheel (8), wherein an absorber (10) has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) for sound absorption and the cohesive bond consists of an adhesion promoter (11) applied between the absorber (10) and the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1), has been further developed in accordance with the invention in that the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) has mutually alternating adhesion promoter sections (12) and adhesion promoter-free sections (13), the adhesion promoter-free sections (13) having been coated with a separating agent (14).

Claims

1.-7. (canceled)

8. A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a profiled tread that merges at either side into sidewalls, the profiled tread comprising ends formed by a tire bead which is insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel, wherein an absorber cohesively bonded to an inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire for sound absorption, and wherein the cohesive bond comprises an adhesion promoter applied between the absorber and the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire; and, wherein the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire has mutually alternating adhesion promoter sections and adhesion promoter-free sections, and wherein the adhesion promoter-free sections are coated with a separating agent.

9. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 8, wherein the adhesion promoter-free sections comprise, as a separating agent between the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire and the absorber, a film, a weave or a lubricant.

10. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 8, wherein the adhesion promoter sections and the adhesion promoter-free sections have a homogeneously repeating distribution around the circumference of the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire.

11. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 8, wherein the adhesion promoter sections and the adhesion promoter-free sections have an inhomogeneous, varying distribution around a circumference of the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire.

12. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 8, wherein the absorber comprises a sound-absorbing material, such as foam, glass wool, rock wool, cork, Styropor (polystirene), felt, nonwoven fabric or loop pile fabric.

13. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 8, wherein the adhesion promoter is an adhesive.

14. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 8, wherein the adhesion promoter is a polyurethane gel.

15. A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a profiled tread that merges at either side into sidewalls, the profiled tread comprising ends formed by a tire bead which is insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel, wherein an absorber cohesively bonded to an inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire for sound absorption, and wherein the cohesive bond comprises an adhesion promoter applied between the absorber and the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire; and, wherein the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire has mutually alternating adhesion promoter sections and adhesion promoter-free sections, wherein the adhesion promoter-free sections are coated with a separating agent, and wherein the adhesion promoter sections and the adhesion promoter-free sections have an inhomogeneous, varying distribution around a circumference of the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire.

16. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 15, wherein the adhesion promoter-free sections comprise, as a separating agent between the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire and the absorber, a film, a weave or a lubricant.

17. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 15, wherein the absorber comprises a sound-absorbing material, such as foam, glass wool, rock wool, cork, Styropor (polystirene), felt, nonwoven fabric or loop pile fabric.

18. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 15, wherein the adhesion promoter is an adhesive.

19. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 15, wherein the adhesion promoter is a polyurethane gel.

20. A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a profiled tread that merges at either side into sidewalls, the profiled tread comprising ends formed by a tire bead which is insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel, wherein an absorber cohesively bonded to an inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire for sound absorption, and wherein the cohesive bond comprises an adhesion promoter applied between the absorber and the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire; and, wherein the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire has mutually alternating adhesion promoter sections and adhesion promoter-free sections, wherein the adhesion promoter-free sections are coated with a separating agent, and wherein the absorber comprises a sound-absorbing material, such as foam, glass wool, rock wool, cork, Styropor (polystirene), felt, nonwoven fabric or loop pile fabric.

21. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 20, wherein the adhesion promoter-free sections comprise, as a separating agent between the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire and the absorber, a film, a weave or a lubricant.

22. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 20, wherein the adhesion promoter sections and the adhesion promoter-free sections have a homogeneously repeating distribution around the circumference of the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire.

23. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 20, wherein the adhesion promoter sections and the adhesion promoter-free sections have an inhomogeneous, varying distribution around a circumference of the inner surface of the pneumatic vehicle tire.

24. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 20, wherein the adhesion promoter is an adhesive.

25. The pneumatic vehicle tire as claimed in claim 20, wherein the adhesion promoter is a polyurethane gel.

Description

[0019] The figures show:

[0020] FIG. 1: a fully mounted vehicle wheel in cross section and

[0021] FIG. 2: a section from a view of an inner surface of another example of the execution of a pneumatic vehicle tire prior to the application of the absorber.

[0022] FIG. 1 shows, by way of example, a fully mounted vehicle tire 8 in cross section. The latter is made up of a pneumatic vehicle tire 1 and a wheel rim 7 which holds the pneumatic vehicle tire 1. The pneumatic vehicle tire 1 itself is composed of a profiled tread 2, the profile of which is merely indicated in the illustration in FIG. 1 by multiple groove-like depressions. Below said tread 2, the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 has multiple belt plies 18 which, in FIG. 1, are likewise illustrated merely by way of indication. On either side of the tread 2, the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 also merges into one sidewall 3 and 4 in each case, the lower end of which is formed in each case by a tire bead 5 and 6. Each tire bead 5, 6 is composed of a bead core 22, which merges into a core profile 21 which is encased with a rubber material. The tire beads 5, 6 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 form a seal with respect to the surroundings, such that said tire beads 5, 6 bear in air-tight fashion against a wheel-rim edge 17 of the wheel rim 7. The pneumatic vehicle tire 1 and the wheel rim 7 thus jointly surround an air cavity 24, which is filled with compressed air via the valve 15, inserted into a valve shank 16, of the vehicle wheel 8. The sidewalls 3, 4 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 are, in a manner known per se, made up of multiple plies, and thus form a complex system for stabilizing the pneumatic vehicle tire 1. Thus, on the inside of each sidewall 3, 4, there is firstly a reinforcement profile 19, which is adjoined in the direction of the outer side of each sidewall 3, 4 by a carcass 20, which in turn is embedded into a rubber layer that is otherwise unspecified in FIG. 1. Furthermore, the sidewall may comprise additional individual plies, which will however not be discussed in any more detail here.

[0023] The FIG. 1 shows the special feature of the invention, which is that there is an absorber 10 arranged on the inner surface 9, which is situated opposite the tread 2, of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1, and the free surface area 23 of which faces the air cavity 24. This absorber 10, having a multitude of pores 25 of different size as a result of the foaming operation, is cohesively bonded to the inner surface 9 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 using an adhesion promoter, which in the present context is an adhesive. As indicated by the representation in FIG. 1, the adhesion promoter 11 in the present case has multiple interruptions and, in the example, is applied in circumferential direction of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 in linear form to the inner surface 9 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 before the absorber 10 has been applied to the inner surface 9 with a corresponding surface. As a result, around the inner surface 9 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1, a multitude of adhesion promoter sections 12 equidistant from one another are formed, between which an adhesion promoter-free section 13 runs in each case. Every adhesion promoter-free section 13 is provided with a separating agent 14, such that there is no means of adhesion for the adhesion promoter 11 in these sections. By virtue of the use of the separating agent 14, consequently, the profile of the adhesion promoter 11 along the adhesion promoter sections 12 can be defined very exactly.

[0024] FIG. 2 shows a section from a view of the inner surface 9 of a pneumatic vehicle tire 1, with the circumferential direction of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 symbolized by the arrow A. Contrary to the representation and the description in connection with FIG. 1, in this variant, multiple adhesion promoter sections 12 have been applied to the inner surface 9 to the inner surface 9 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1 in the direction transverse to the circumferential direction A. The adhesion promoter sections 12 in this example are equidistant from one another, and this distance is formed in each case by an adhesion promoter-free section 13. In this adhesion promoter-free section 13, a separating agent 14 has been applied beforehand, and so there is no means here for the adhesion promoter 11 to establish a cohesive bond between the absorber 10 and the inner surface 9 of the pneumatic vehicle tire 1. The separating agent 14 used in the present context was a lubricant.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

[0025] 1 Pneumatic vehicle tire [0026] 2 Tread [0027] 3 Sidewall [0028] 4 Sidewall [0029] 5 Tire bead [0030] 6 Tire bead [0031] 7 Wheel rim [0032] 8 Vehicle wheel [0033] 9 Inner surface [0034] 10 Absorber [0035] 11 Adhesion promoter (adhesive) [0036] 12 Adhesion promoter section [0037] 13 Adhesion promoter-free section [0038] 14 Separating agent [0039] 15 Valve [0040] 16 Valve shank [0041] 17 Wheel rim edge [0042] 18 Belt plies [0043] 19 Reinforcing profile [0044] 20 Carcass [0045] 21 Core profile [0046] 22 Bead core [0047] 23 Free surface area (of the absorber) [0048] 24 Air cavity [0049] 25 Pores