Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10086659-B2
Application number	US-201615082636-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2016
Priority date	Sep 21, 2011
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

A pneumatic tire has a tread rubber made of a nonconductive rubber. The tread rubber is provided with a first and second conductive portions made of a conductive rubber. The first conductive portion extends radially inwardly from a ground-contacting surface, extends to one side in tire width direction, and reaches a carcass layer or a side wall rubber. An exposed position of the first conductive portion is separated from a tire equator at a distance is equal to or more than 10% of a ground-contacting width. The second conductive portion extends radially inwardly from the ground-contacting surface, extends to another side in tire width direction, and reaches the carcass layer or the side wall rubber. An exposed position of the second conductive portion is separated from the tire equator at a distance is equal to or more than 10% of the ground-contacting width.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire comprising:
a pair of bead portions;
side wall portions each of which extends to an outer side in a tire radial direction from each of the bead portions;
a tread portion which is connected to an outer end in the tire radial direction of each of the side wall portions;
a toroidal carcass layer which is provided between the pair of bead portions;
a side wall rubber which is provided in an outer side of the carcass layer in the side wall portion; and
a tread rubber which is provided in an outer side of the carcass layer in the tread portion,
wherein the tread rubber has a cap portion which is formed by a nonconductive rubber and constructs a ground-contacting surface, a base portion which is formed by the nonconductive rubber and is provided in an inner side in the tire radial direction of the cap portion, and a pair of conductive portions which are formed by a conductive rubber and are exposed in the ground-contacting surface, and
wherein the pair of conductive portions comprises:
a first conductive portion which extends to an inner side in the tire radial direction from the ground-contacting surface so as to reach an outer peripheral surface of the base portion, extends to one side in a tire width direction between the cap portion and the base portion, is connected to a topping rubber of the carcass layer or the side wall rubber, and is separated at an exposed position on the ground-contacting surface from a tire equator to one side in the tire width direction at a distance which is equal to or more than 10% of a ground-contacting width; and
a second conductive portion which extends to an inner side in the tire radial direction from the ground-contacting surface so as to reach an outer peripheral surface of the base portion, extends to another side in the tire width direction between the cap portion and the base portion, is connected to the topping rubber of the carcass layer or the side wall rubber, and is separated at an exposed position on the ground-contacting surface from the tire equator to another side in the tire width direction at a distance which is equal to or more than 10% of the ground-contacting width, and
wherein a groove area of a region which comes to one side in the tire width direction of the ground-contacting surface is larger than a groove area of a region which comes to another side in the tire width direction based on the tire equator, and a distance from the exposed position on the ground-contacting surface of the first conductive portion to the tire equator is longer than a distance from the exposed position on the ground-contacting surface of the second conductive portion to the tire equator.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a circumferential main groove is formed on a surface of the tread rubber, while avoiding a section in which the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion extend to the inner side in the tire radial direction from the ground-contacting surface so as to reach an outer peripheral surface of the base portion.

Assignees

• Toyo Tire & Rubber Co

Inventors

• Shinkai Akihiko

Classifications

• B60C11/005

  with cap and base layers · CPC title

• B60C13/00

  Tyre sidewalls; Protecting, decorating, marking, or the like, thereof (B60C17/08 takes precedence; tyre shoulders B60C11/01; removable tyre sidewall trim rings B60B7/01) · CPC title

• B60C19/084

  using conductive carcasses · CPC title

• B29D2030/526

  the tread comprising means for discharging the electrostatic charge, e.g. conductive elements or portions having conductivity higher than the tread rubber · CPC title

• B29D30/60

  by winding narrow strips · CPC title