Abstract:
A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure wherein the belt reinforcing structure is a composite belt structure having at least one radially inner spiral layer and at least one zigzag belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of said spiral layer. The zigzag belt width is preferably wider than the spiral layer.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire is disclosed having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure, the carcass comprising at least two inner plies which are wound around a annular bead member from axially inside of the annular bead member toward axially outside thereof and extends radially outward towards the crown to form respective turnup portions; At least one of the inner plies does not wrap around the annular bead member and has a terminal end which has a radial location between a first plane and a second plane, wherein the first plane is tangent to the outer radial surface of the annular bead member and parallel to the tire axis of rotation, and the second plane is tangent to the inner radial surface of the annular bead member and parallel to the axis of rotation of the tire, the carcass further comprising at least two outer plies which extend radially inward from the crown and axially outward of the annular bead member and further extend axially outward and are wrapped around the bead terminating in endings.
Abstract:
In a pneumatic tire, a cord spacing between an axially outer cord layer and an axially inner cord layer such as: a turnup portion and a main portion of a carcass ply; or a bead reinforcing cord layer and a carcass ply turnup portion, is increased from the radially inside to the outside of the tire to improve the durability of the bead portion.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a retreadable tire which contains a non-black colored rubber carcass cushion layer sandwiched between its tire tread and tire casing. The non-black colored rubber carcass cushion layer acts both as an adhesive and transition layer for adhering a cured or uncured tire tread to the cured tire carcass. Such carcass cushion layer also acts as a detectable color indictor for indexing and monitoring a complete removal (e.g. by buffing, abrading, or cutting) of the circumferential rubber tire tread and partial removal of the carcass cushion layer without removing the entire carcass cushion layer. The invention also relates to a method of retreading a cured rubber tire carcass by completely removing a circumferential, carbon black reinforced (and therefor a black colored) tire rubber tread together with a partial removal of the contrastingly colored cured rubber carcass cushion layer to a depth indexed and/or determined by an automated rubber cushion layer color sensing means, or apparatus, followed by applying a non-black colored uncured circumferential rubber carcass cushion layer and carbon black reinforced (therefore black colored) tire tread thereon to form an assembly thereof and vulcanizing the assembly in a suitable mold to form a retread tire.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form a pair of turnup portions and a main portion therebetween, and a rubber bead apex disposed between each turnup portion and main portion. Each turnup portion extends radially outwardly beyond a radially outer end of the bead apex to have a part adjoining the main portion. The profile in a tire sidewall portion and bead portion comprises a first linear portion and a second linear portion, the first linear portion extending radially outwards from a point P in substantially parallel to the tire equatorial plane, and the second linear portion extending radially inwards from the point P while inclining axially inwards at an angle of from +15 to +60 degrees with respect to the tire equatorial plane. The radial distance of the radially outer end of the turnup portion from a point Q is in the range of less than 3 times a distance (gt) measured from the point P to the carcass ply main portion along a straight line drawn from the point P perpendicularly to the carcass ply main portion, wherein the point Q is defined as a point at which the straight line intersects the carcass ply main portion.
Abstract:
A heavy duty radial tire comprises a carcass ply being turned up around bead cores form the axially inside to outside of the tire, a bead apex disposed between the carcass main portion and each turnup portion, the turnup portion extending radially outwardly beyond the radially outer end of the bead apex so that the turnup portion has a parallel part which is placed adjacent to and substantially in parallel with the main portion, and a chafer disposed in each bead portion and extending radially outwardly beyond the radially outer end of the bead apex along the axially outside of the turnup portion.
Abstract:
A a carcass has at least one endless carcass cord ply, which is formed by at least one carcass cord extending zigzag in the tire's circumferential direction while being folded at both outer ends of the endless carcass cord ply alternately to right and left. The bead core has an upper bead core portion which is formed by a bead cord being substantially continuous to the carcass cord and spirally wound on the endless carcass cord ply in one or more stages in the tire's circumferential direction.
Abstract:
A radial tire having a carcass extending from a tread through sidewalls to a bead core in each of two bead parts and turned up around the bead cores. The tire includes a belt layer disposed on the outside of the tire in the tire radial direction of the carcass in the tread portion and a cut breaker disposed between the carcass and the belt layer. Each carcass ply has cords that are buried in topping rubber and arranged independently in parallel to each other within the same plane without linking wefts. In a region from the bead bottom to the turned up end of the carcass, the distance between cords in adjacent carcass plies is within a range of 1/4 to 2 times a diameter K1 of the carcass cord.
Abstract:
A high speed tire for heavy duty vehicles comprise a belt layer of a carcass with radial structure, wherein a profile of the outer circumference of the tire in the specified internal pressure state satisfies that the maximum width and radius ratio Ro/W is not more than 0.54. At this point, the ratio Ro/W is defined as the ratio of the radius Ro of curvature of the arc which passes through maximum width point C, a reference point Q and an intermediate height point M to tire maximum width W. The maximum width point C is defined as a point where the tire width is maximum W. The reference point Q is defined as a point which is apart from the bead bottom line by the length of 0.2 times the total sectional height H of the tire. And the intermediate height point M is defined as a point which is intermediate between the maximum width point C and the reference point Q.
Abstract:
A heavy duty radial tire and rim assembly exhibiting improved bead durability, wherein the bottom face of the bead is composed of an axially inner face Si and an axially outer face So each tapered axially inward to decrease the diameter of the bottom face, the taper in the inner face Si is greater than that of the outer face So, the boundary between the inner face Si and the outer face So is located axially inward of the center of gravity of the bead core, and in the condition that the tire is mounted on a regular rim and inflated to a regular pressure, the axial distance X of the axially inner edge Q2 of the bead core from a bead heel Q1 defined as an intersection between a rim base line B and an extending line of the inner surface of a rim flange of the rim is not less than 80% and not more than 105% of the height HR of the radially outer edge Q3 of the rim flange from the rim base line; and the radial distance Y of the radially outer edge Q4 of the bead core measured radially inwardly from the radially outer edge Q3 of the rim flange is not less than 0% and not more than 30% of the height HR of the rim flange from the rim base line.