Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10166817-B2
Application number	US-201515302216-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2015
Priority date	Apr 14, 2014
Publication date	Jan 1, 2019
Grant date	Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

To reduce noise while suppressing increase in rolling resistance, without affecting the formation of a carcass line, provided is a pneumatic tire (10) including: a carcass (13); an inclined belt (14), and an inner liner (17). The inclined belt (14) is disposed on the tire radial outer side of the crown portion of the carcass (13). The inclined belt (14) includes at least one inclined belt layer (16). The inclined belt layer (16) has cords extending as being inclined at 35° or more with respect to the tire circumferential direction. The inner liner (17) has a thickness of 1.5 mm or more at least in part of a side portion (19).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire, comprising:
a carcass extending across a pair of bead portions;
an inclined belt which is disposed on the tire radial outer side of a crown portion of the carcass and includes inclined belt layers each having cords extending as being inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction; and
an inner liner disposed on the inside of the carcass, wherein:
the inner liner has a thickness of 1.5 mm or more at least in part of a side portion of the tire;
the inclined belt layers include at least one inclined belt layer that has cords inclined at an inclination angle of 35° or more with respect to the tire circumferential direction,
the pneumatic tire has a section width SW and an outer diameter OD which satisfy the following relationships when an internal pressure of the pneumatic tire is 250 kPa or higher;
when the section width SW of the pneumatic tire is less than 165 mm, SW/OD is 0.26 or less, and
when the section width SW of the pneumatic tire is 165 mm or larger, the outer diameter OD satisfies OD≥2.135×SW+282.3,

a rubber composition forming the inner liner has an air permeability coefficient of 1.0×10 −14 cc-cm/(cm 2 -s-cm-Hg) ore more and 6.5×10 −10 cc-cm/(cm 2 -s-cm-Hg) or less,
the rubber composition forming the inner liner has a dynamic storage elastic modulus E′ at −40° C. of 500 MPa or higher and 8000 MPa or lower,
the rubber composition forming the inner liner has a loss tangent (tan δ) of 0.1 or more and 0.3 or less,
a tread rubber of the pneumatic tire has a dynamic storage elastic modulus E′ at 30° C. in a range of 6.0 MPa to 12.0 MPa, and
the tread rubber has a loss tangent (tan δ) at 60° C. within a range of 0.05 to 0.15.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the inner liner has a thickness of 2.8 mm or less.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the inner liner has a thickness, at least in part of the side portion, larger than the thickness thereof in the rest of the side portion.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein:
the inclined belt has at least two layers of the inclined belt layers different in width in the tire width direction, of which the widest inclined belt layer has cords inclined at an inclination angle θ 1 with respect to the tire circumferential direction and the narrowest inclined belt layer has cords inclined at an inclination angle θ 2 with respect to the tire circumferential direction, the inclination angles θ 1 and θ 2 satisfying:
35°≤θ 1 ≤85°; and
10°≤θ 2 ≤30°, and
the widest inclined belt layer has a tire widthwise width W 1 and the narrowest inclined belt layer has a tire widthwise width W 2 , the widths W 1 and W 2 satisfying:
W 2 ≤0.6×W 1 .

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , further comprising a circumferential belt which is disposed on the tire radial outer side of the crown portion of the carcass and includes at least one circumferential belt layer having cords extending along the tire circumferential direction, wherein:
the circumferential belt has a tire circumferential rigidity per unit width that is higher in a central region including the tire equator plane, than the tire circumferential rigidity per unit width in other regions.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 5 , wherein a width W 3 of the circumferential belt and a width W 4 of the central region satisfies:
0.2×W 3 ≤W 4 ≤0.6×W 3 .

7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a groove volume ratio of total volume of grooves formed in a tread surface of the pneumatic tire (V2) to the volume of the tread rubber (V1) satisfies:
V2/V1≤0.2.

8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the pneumatic tire includes on a tread surface only rib-like land portions, with no widthwise grooves, in a tire widthwise region accounting for 80% of the tread width TW.

9. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the pneumatic tire includes, on a tread surface:
a plurality of land portions including a shoulder land portion, and an inner land portion adjacent to the shoulder land portion and closer to a centerline of the pneumatic tire;
a circumferential groove extending in the tire circumferential direction on a tread end TE side, the circumferential groove being adjacent to the tread end TE while being spaced apart from the tread end TE in the tire width direction at a distance by 25% of a tread width TW, and
at least one one-end open groove, in the inner land portion, the one-end open groove extending from the circumferential groove on the tread end TE side and extending in the tire width direction towards the centerline of the pneumatic tire.

10. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein in a tire widthwise section,
wherein a fall height LCR is defined as a distance between a straight line m 1 and a straight line m 2 , the straight line m 1 passing through a point P on a tread surface at a tire equator plane CL while being parallel to the tire width direction, and the straight line m 2 passing through a tread end TE while being parallel to the tire width direction, and
the fall height LCR and a tread width TW satisfy a ratio of LCR/TW≤0.045.

11. The pneumatic tire according to claim 4 , wherein the widest inclined belt layer has a tire widthwise width of 90% to 115% of a tread width TW.

12. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , further comprising a bead core and a bead filler located adjacent to the bead core,
wherein the bead filler has a tire widthwise sectional area S 1 which is within a range of equal to or more than, and 4 times or less of, the tire widthwise sectional area S 2 of the bead core.

13. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall portion and a bead core, and
wherein the sidewall portion has a gauge Ts at a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction, and the bead core has a bead width Tb at its tire radial center position, and
a ratio of Ts to Tb (Ts/Tb) is within a range of 0.15 or more to 0.40 or less.

14. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall portion, and
the sidewall portion has a gauge Ts at a tire maximum position in the tire radial direction, and the carcass has a carcass cord with a diameter Tc, and
wherein a ratio of Ts to Tc (Ts/Tc) is within a range of 5 or more to 10 or less.

15. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the pneumatic tire has a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction disposed in a range of 50% to 90% of a tire section height, on the tire radial outer side from a bead base portion.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kuwayama Isao
• Hatanaka Shintaro
• Kozuki Kentaro

Classifications

• B60C5/142

  provided partially, i.e. not covering the whole inner wall · CPC title

• B60C9/2009

  comprising plies of different materials · CPC title

• B60C2011/0381

  Blind or isolated grooves · CPC title

• B60C2009/2019

  comprising cords at an angle of 30 to 60 degrees to the circumferential direction · CPC title

• B60C2009/2228

  characterised by special physical properties of the zero degree plies · CPC title