Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10875360-B2
Application number	US-201514667921-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2015
Priority date	Mar 25, 2014
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

A pneumatic tire includes a tread, side walls, beads, a carcass, a belt layer, an inner-liner layer, and a sealant layer. The inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer to which the sealant layer is adhered has profile that satisfies L 1 <L 2 <L 3 , L 1 ≤5 mm, L 2 ≤9.5 mm, and L 3 ≤11 mm, where L 1 , L 2 and L 3 represent heights in a radial direction measured from a base height point to the inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer at positions located in an axially inward direction from an axial outer edge of the belt layer by 5%, 10% and 15% of a maximum width of the belt layer, and the base height point is a point on an axial-direction line through the intersection where a radial-direction line passing through the axial outer edge of the belt layer intersects the inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire, comprising:
a tread;
a pair of sidewalls extending from axial edges of the tread in a radially inward direction, respectively;
a pair of beads positioned on a radially inner side of the sidewalls and having a pair of bead cores, respectively;
a carcass extending from the tread through the sidewalls to the bead cores of the beads;
a belt layer positioned on a radially outer side of the carcass and on an inner side of the tread;
an inner-liner layer comprising air-impermeable rubber and positioned on a radially inner side of the carcass; and
a sealant layer adhered to a radially inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer in a tread section and having a tire width which is greater than a tire width of the belt layer in an axial direction,
wherein the inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer to which the sealant layer is adhered has a profile that satisfies L 1 <L 2 <L 3 , L 1 ≤5 mm, L 2 ≤9.5 mm, and L 3 ≤11 mm, where L 1 , L 2 and L 3 represent heights in a radial direction measured from a base height point to the inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer at positions located in an axially inward direction from an axial outer edge of the belt layer by 5%, 10% and 15% of a maximum width of the belt layer in a meridian cross section including a rotation axis of a tire when the tire is mounted on a normal rim and is filled to have a normal inflation pressure with no load applied, and
wherein the base height point is a point on an axial-direction line that passes through an intersection where a radial-direction line, starting passing through in between the axial edges of the tread heading towards the sealant layer, intersects the inner-side surface of the inner-liner layer,
wherein the radial-direction line passes through the axial outer edge of the belt layer, through in between the axial edges of the tread, and through the sealant layer.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≥1 mm, L 2 ≥1.5 mm, and L 3 ≥2 mm.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein each of outer edges of the sealant layer is positioned on an outer side of the axial outer edge of the belt layer in the axial direction.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 2 , wherein each of outer edges of the sealant layer is positioned on an outer side of the axial outer edge of the belt layer in the axial direction.

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≤4 mm, L 2 ≤7.5 mm, and L 3 ≤9 mm.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≤2.5 mm, L 2 ≤4.5 mm, and L 3 ≤6 mm.

7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≤1 mm, L 2 ≤1.5 mm, and L 3 ≤2 mm.

8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≤0.5 mm, L 2 ≤1 mm, and L 3 ≤1.5 mm.

9. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≥0.5 mm, L 2 ≥1 mm, and L 3 ≥1.5 mm.

10. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≥1 mm, L 2 ≥1.5 mm, and L 3 ≥2.0 mm.

11. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the inner-liner layer satisfies L 1 ≥2.5 mm, L 2 ≥4.5 mm, and L 3 ≥6 mm.

12. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a flow distance of the sealant layer is 2.5 mm or less.

13. The pneumatic tire according to claim 12 , wherein the flow distance of the sealant layer is 1 mm or less.

14. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , further comprising: a foamed body laminated on a radially inner-side surface of the sealant layer to suppress cavity resonance sounds.

15. The pneumatic tire according to claim 14 , wherein the foamed body is an ether-based polyurethane sponge.

16. The pneumatic tire according to claim 15 , wherein a relative density of the ether-based polyurethane sponge is between 0.005 and 0.06.

17. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the sealant layer is between 1 and 10 mm.

18. The pneumatic tire according to claim 17 , wherein the thickness of the sealant layer is between 1.5 and 5.0 mm.

19. The pneumatic tire according to claim 3 , wherein each of the outer edges of sealant layer is positioned at between 3 and 20 mm on the outer side of the axial outer edge of the belt layer.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Rubber Ind

Inventors

• Yukawa Naoki

Classifications

• B60C19/002

  Noise damping elements provided in the tyre structure or attached thereto, e.g. in the tyre interior · CPC title

• B29D30/0685

  Incorporating auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents on or into tyres (auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents B29C73/16; puncture preventing arrangements B60C19/12) · CPC title

• B60C2009/283

  characterised by belt curvature · CPC title

• B60C9/0292

  Carcass ply curvature (sidewall curvature B60C13/003) · CPC title

• B60C19/122

  disposed inside of the inner liner · CPC title