Run-flat tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10086658-B2
Application number	US-201414527145-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2014
Priority date	Oct 29, 2014
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

A run-flat tire ensures run-flat durability with a reduced weight. A tire radial outermost carcass ply of two or more carcass plies has tire widthwise inner ends in a crown portion. A bead filler and side reinforcing rubber have an overlapping part in the tire width direction. In a cross section of the run-flat tire in the tire width direction in a state where the run-flat tire is attached to an applicable rim, filled to a specified internal pressure, and placed under no load, a thickness d1 of a sidewall portion at a midpoint in the tire radial direction between a maximum width position of the run-flat tire and a tire radial outermost position of a bead core is greater than a thickness d2 of the sidewall portion at a midpoint in the tire radial direction between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and a tread edge.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A run-flat tire comprising:
a pair of bead cores;
a carcass composed of two or more carcass plies toroidally extending between the pair of bead cores;
a bead filler located on an outer side of each of the bead cores in a tire radial direction;
a pair of sidewall portions; and
side reinforcing rubber located in each of the sidewall portions, the side reinforcing rubber being crescent in cross section in a tire width direction,
wherein a carcass main body of a tire radial outermost carcass ply of the two or more carcass plies has tire widthwise inner ends in a crown portion,
wherein the bead filler and the side reinforcing rubber have an overlapping part in the tire width direction, and
wherein, in a cross section of the run-flat tire in the tire width direction in a state where the run-flat tire is attached to an applicable rim, filled to a specified internal pressure, and placed under no load, a thickness d1 of the sidewall portion at a midpoint in the tire radial direction between a maximum width position of the run-flat tire and a tire radial outermost position of the bead core is greater than a thickness d2 of the sidewall portion at a midpoint in the tire radial direction between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and a tread edge; and
wherein a radially inner end of the side reinforcing rubber is located radially between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and the tire radial outermost position of the bead core, such that the thickness d1 includes a thickness of the side reinforcing rubber at the midpoint in the tire radial direction between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and the tire radial outermost position of the bead core,
wherein at the thickness d1 of the sidewall portion at the midpoint, a thickness of the side reinforcing rubber is larger than a thickness of the bead filler,
wherein the two or more carcass plies consist of two carcass plies;
wherein the tire radial outermost carcass ply has a carcass folded portion, such that a radial outer end of the carcass folded portion of the tire radial outermost carcass ply is positioned in the tire radial direction between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and the tire radial outermost position of the bead core; and
wherein a tire radial inner carcass ply has a carcass folded portion, such that a radial outer end of the carcass folded portion of the tire radial inner carcass is positioned in the tire radial direction between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and the radial outer end of the carcass folded portion of the tire radial outermost carcass ply.

2. The run-flat tire according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the cross section of the run-flat tire in the tire width direction in the state where the run-flat tire is attached to the applicable rim, filled to the specified internal pressure, and placed under no load, a ratio d4/d3 satisfies a relational expression
0.8≤ d 4/ d 3≤1.2,

where d3 is a thickness of the bead filler at a midpoint in the tire radial direction of the overlapping part in the tire width direction between the bead filler and the side reinforcing rubber, and d4 is a thickness of the side reinforcing rubber at the midpoint in the tire radial direction of the overlapping part in the tire width direction between the bead filler and the side reinforcing rubber, each of the thickness d3 and the thickness d4 being in a direction perpendicular to the carcass.

3. The run-flat tire according to claim 1 ,
wherein a tire widthwise inner end of the side reinforcing rubber is positioned inward in the tire width direction of the tire widthwise inner end of the carcass main body of the tire radial outermost carcass ply.

4. The run-flat tire according to claim 1 ,
wherein the two or more carcass plies are made of the same material.

5. The run-flat tire according to claim 1 , wherein only one side reinforcing rubber exists in each sidewall portion in the tire width direction.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Park Young Chul

Classifications

• B60C17/00

  Tyres characterised by means enabling restricted operation in damaged or deflated condition; Accessories therefor · CPC title

• B60C9/0207

  Carcasses comprising an interrupted ply, i.e. where the carcass ply does not continuously extend from bead to bead but is interrupted, e.g. at the belt area, into two or more portions of the same ply · CPC title

• B60C15/0009

  features of the carcass terminal portion · CPC title

• B60C2013/007

  Thickness · CPC title

• B60C17/0009 Primary

  comprising sidewall rubber inserts, e.g. crescent shaped inserts · CPC title