Abstract:
A steel cord characterised by a zigzag filament which is zigzagged two dimensionally or in a plane by a zigzag pitch length (Pw) and a zigzag wave height (h) and made up of straight segments each extending between zigzag peak points, each of the zigzag pitch lengths (Pw) and zigzag wave heights (h) being ccnstant along the longitudinal direction thereof and either a second zigzag filament of the same type but having a different pitch length (Pw) or a straight filament such that the cord has an open construction so that rubber can penetrate it. The cord may be a single bunch or a twisting together of two or more bunches each comprising zigzag filaments. The cord may have zigzag filaments of at least two different zigzag pitch lengths. In each of tnese constructions the result is to give an open cord construction and the invention also includes a tyre incorporating such cord in the carcass breaker or the like.
Abstract:
A steel cord (114) for the reinforcement of rubber products comprises strength elements (100, 132) and has length, a longitudinal central axis (112) and a cord pitch. Each of the elements (100) has a projection on a plane YZ perpendicular to the longitudinal central axis (112). At least one of these projections takes the form of a curve with a radius of curvature which alternates between a maximum and minimum. The curve further has a center of curvature. The radius of curvature and the center of curvature lie inside the curve so that a convex curve is obtained. The cord (114) is further characterized by one or both of the following features: (i) the distance between two minimum radii of curvature of said curve measured along the longitudinal central axis (112) is different from half the cord pitch; or (ii) if all of said elements (100) provide a convex curve, at least one of said convex curves substantially differs from another convex curve. The steel cord (114) allows full rubber penetration despite low values of cord diameter and part load elongation (PLE).
Abstract:
[Object] A manipulation rope having an excellent torque transmittability is provided. [Solution] A manipulation rope 2 is a rope 2 that is advantageously used as a manipulation rope for a medical instrument, and includes a side wire 6 or a side strand which is an outermost layer, the side wire 6 or the side strand having a forming rate that is greater than 100% and not greater than 110%. The side wire or the side strand having been formed has a spiral shape in which a flatness that is an aspect ratio obtained by a major axis being divided by a minor axis is preferably not less than 1.01 and preferably not greater than 1.10. Further, an elongation of the rope at a time when a tensile load that is 1.0% of a breaking load is applied, is preferably not less than 0.04% and preferably not greater than 0.10%.
Abstract:
Provided is a pneumatic radial tire in which a fatigue rapture of the steel cord is prevented and durability of a circumferential belt is improved. In a pneumatic radial tire which has as a skeleton a carcass extending in a toroidal shape between a left-and-right pair of bead portions, and has a belt layer and tread layer successively arranged onto the carcass at the outer part in the tire radial direction, the belt layer comprises at least one circumferential belt which consists of a plurality of corrugated or zigzag shaped steel cords extending along the tire circumferential direction, and at least the relations represented by the following expressions: -0.5 ≤ L1/ L2 ≤ 0.5, L2 ≤ 0
(where, in the case where the residual stress is a tensile stress, the stress is a + value while, in the case where the residual stress is a compressive stress, the stress is a - value) are satisfied, when the steel cords of the circumferential belt are taken out, at the inside and the outside of bent portions of the steel cords which are taken out, letting the residual stress at the inside of bent portions of the filament of a sheath portion be L1 and the residual stress at the outside of bent portions of the filament of the sheath portion be L2.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tyre comprises a belt (7) disposed radially outside a carcass (6) in a tread portion (2), the belt (7) comprising two crossed plies (7A,7B) of monofilament metallic cords (10A,10B,10C) laid at angles of from 15 to 30 degrees with respect to the circumferential direction of the tyre, each monofilament cord being composed of a waved single filament, the filament having a non-circular sectional shape having an aspect ratio in a range of from 0.65 to 0.95 and a cross-sectional area in a range of 0.09 to 0.20 sq.mm.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire includes metal cords each made of metal filaments twisted together, the metal cords having an initial elongation in a range of from 0.05 to 0.20 % and a standard deviation of the initial elongation in a range of not more than 0.02. A method of manufacturing the metal cord comprises shaping metal filaments in a two-dimensional zigzag waveform, and twisting the shaped metal filaments together, wherein the number of the filaments is in a range of from 8 to 12, the metal filaments have the same diameter (d) of from 0.15 to 0.30 mm, the shaped metal filaments have the same zigzag waveforms, the zigzag waveform of each said shaped metal filament has constant wave lengths (P) and constant wave heights (h) wherein the ratio (P/d) is in the range of 100/3 to 700/3, and the ratio (h/d) is in the range of 5/3 to 80/3.
Abstract:
A steel cord characterised by a zigzag filament which is zigzagged two dimensionally or in a plane by a zigzag pitch length (Pw) and a zigzag wave height (h) and made up of straight segments each extending between zigzag peak points, each of the zigzag pitch lengths (Pw) and zigzag wave heights (h) being constant along the longitudinal direction thereof and either a second zigzag filament of the same type but having a different pitch length (Pw) or a straight filament such that the cord has an open construction so that rubber can penetrate it. The cord may be a single bunch or a twisting together of two or more bunches each comprising zigzag filaments. The cord may have zigzag filaments of at least two different zigzag pitch lengths. In each of these constructions the result is to give an open cord construction and the invention also includes a tyre incorporating such cord in the carcass breaker or the like.
Abstract:
Tyre for motor vehicles, provided with a belt structure (3) interposed circumferentially between the carcass (2) and the tread band (4), and comprising at least one pair of belt plies (5,7) radially superimposed on each other and extending axially substantially by the same amount as said tread band. Each ply (5,7) has a plurality of cords (6,8) orientated obliquely with respect to the equatorial plane of the tyre and in opposite directions, and a reinforcing layer (10) radially external to said at least one pair of belt plies (5,7), having reinforcing elements (11) which are substantially parallel to each other and parallel to the equatorial plane. The reinforcing elements (11) of the 0° layer comprise single metal wires preformed according to a given preforming ratio, which have a high elastic modulus and a considerable elongation at low stresses.