Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10864781-B2
Application number	US-201715786004-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2017
Priority date	Dec 28, 2016
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

A pneumatic tire has a rim strip rubber. A radial height of the rim strip rubber on the basis of an outer diameter position of a bead core is equal to or more than 70% of a radial height of a tire outer diameter position. An upper end of a side reinforcing layer is arranged closer to an outer side radially than an upper end of a bead filler. A distance from a tire maximum width position to the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is equal to or less than 5 mm. The maximum thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber between the upper end of the bead filler and the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is greater than the maximum thickness Tm of the rim strip rubber closer to the outer side radially than the upper end of the side reinforcing layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire comprising:
a carcass layer which gets to a bead portion from a tread portion via a side wall portion on both sides of the tire, at least one of the sides of the tire further comprising:
a side reinforcing layer which extends in a tire radial direction from the bead portion to the side wall portion;
a side wall rubber which forms an outer surface of the side wall portion; and
a rim strip rubber which forms an outer surface of the bead portion,
wherein an annular bead core and a bead filler provided in an outer side in the tire radial direction of the bead core are buried in the bead portion,
wherein the rim strip rubber extends in the tire radial direction between the carcass layer and the side wall rubber, and a radial height of the rim strip rubber from an outer diameter position of the bead core is equal to or more than 70% of a radial height of a tire outer diameter position from the outer diameter position of the bead core,
wherein an upper end of the side reinforcing layer is arranged closer to an outer side in the tire radial direction than an upper end of the bead filler, and a distance in the tire radial direction from a tire maximum width position to the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is equal to or less than 5 mm,
wherein the maximum thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber in a first radial height region between the upper end of the bead filler and the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is formed greater than the maximum thickness Tm of the rim strip rubber closer to the outer side in the tire radial direction than the upper end of the side reinforcing layer, and
wherein the thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber is equal to or more than 1.1 times of the maximum thickness Tm.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a radial height of the rim strip rubber from a bead base line is equal to or more than 75% of a tire cross sectional height.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein an outer peripheral surface of the rim strip rubber in the first radial height region is formed by a first curved surface which bulges to an outer side in a tire width direction.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 3 , wherein an outer peripheral surface of the rim strip rubber in a second radial height region between an exposed position of an interface between the side wall rubber and the rim strip rubber, and the upper end of the bead filler is formed by a second curved surface which is depressed to an inner side in the tire width direction, and the second curved surface is smoothly connected to the first curved surface.

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the rim strip rubber is reduced little by little from an exposed position of an interface between the side wall rubber and the rim strip rubber toward the outer side in the tire radial direction to be a minimum thickness Tn of the rim strip rubber within a second radial height region between the exposed position of the interface and the upper end of the bead filler, and is increased little by little therefrom toward the outer side in the tire radial direction to be the thickness Tw.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is arranged at the tire maximum width position or arranged closer to the outer side in the tire radial direction than the tire maximum width position.

7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber is equal to or more than 1.1 times of a thickness Ts of the rim strip rubber at an upper end position of the side reinforcing layer.

8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber is equal to or more than 1.1 times of a minimum thickness Tn of the rim strip rubber within a second radial height region between an exposed position of an interface between the side wall rubber and the rim strip rubber, and the upper end of the bead filler.

9. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a wound-up end of the carcass layer, wound up in the bead portion so as to pinch the bead core and bead filler, reaches a belt layer which is buried in the tread portion.

Assignees

• Toyo Tire & Rubber Co
• Toyo Tire Corp

Inventors

• Shimomura Kazuo

Classifications

• B60C15/06 Primary

  Flipper strips, fillers, or chafing strips {and reinforcing layers for the construction of the bead} · CPC title

• B60C15/04

  Bead cores · CPC title

• B60C15/0009

  features of the carcass terminal portion · CPC title

• B60C2015/0642

  between carcass turn-up and bead filler not wrapped around the bead core · CPC title

• B60C2015/0667

  comprising cords at an angle of 60 to 90 degrees to the circumferential direction · CPC title