Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tire comprising a tread formed by multiple elastomer blends
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Application No.: US14412074Application Date: 2013-06-27
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Publication No.: US09701161B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: Lucien Bondu , Francois Harle , Olivier Goncalves , Cecile Belin
- Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN , MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.
- Applicant Address: FR Clermot-Ferrand CH Granges-Paccot
- Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN,MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
- Current Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN,MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: FR Clermot-Ferrand CH Granges-Paccot
- Agency: Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Priority: FR1256486 20120705
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/063535 WO 20130627
- International Announcement: WO2014/005927 WO 20140109
- Main IPC: B60C11/00
- IPC: B60C11/00 ; B60C1/00

Abstract:
A tire of which the tread contains at least two layers of blended elastomeric compounds that are radially superposed and has a voids ratio that is lower in the central part than at the axially outer parts thereof. A first layer of blended elastomeric compounds of the tread is made up of a first blended elastomeric compound forming a central part, and of two outer parts formed of a second blended compound, the first blended compound having a Z-value higher than 55, the first blended compound and the second blended compound having a tan(δ)max value lower than 0.110, the modulus G* of the second blended elastomeric compound having a value at least 10% higher than that of the modulus G* of the first blended elastomeric compound, a second layer of the tread, radially the outermost, being made up of a third blended compound of which the modulus G* has a value at least 10% higher than that of the modulus G* of the first blended elastomeric compound and the elongation at break of the third blended compound having a value at least 10% higher than those of the elongations at break of the first and second blended compounds.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150151580A1 TIRE COMPRISING A TREAD FORMED BY MULTIPLE ELASTOMER BLENDS Public/Granted day:2015-06-04
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