Tire for heavy industrial vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10940719-B2
Application number	US-201515304933-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2015
Priority date	Apr 22, 2014
Publication date	Mar 9, 2021
Grant date	Mar 9, 2021

Abstract

A tire includes a tread and a crown reinforcement arranged radially internal to the tread. The crown reinforcement includes a protective reinforcement and a working reinforcement. The protective reinforcement includes a protective ply that exhibits a force at break greater than or equal to 1300 daN·cm −1 . The protective ply includes protective reinforcing elements, each of which exhibits a force at break greater than or equal to 3000 N. The working reinforcement is arranged radially internal to the protective reinforcement and includes a working ply. The working ply includes working reinforcing elements, each of which includes a working cord formed of at least a strand that includes an external layer of unsaturated threads.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A tire comprising:
a tread; and
a crown reinforcement arranged radially internal to the tread, the crown reinforcement including:
(a) a protective reinforcement that includes at least one protective ply, wherein each of the at least one protective ply exhibits a force at break (Fm) greater than or equal to 1400 daN·cm −1 , wherein each of the at least one protective ply includes protective reinforcing elements, wherein each of the protective reinforcing elements exhibits a force at break (Fr) greater than or equal to 3000 N and comprises (1) an internal layer comprising a plurality of internal strands and (2) an external layer comprising a plurality of external strands, the external strands being wrapped helically around the internal layer, and wherein each internal strand comprises (i) an internal layer comprising a plurality of internal threads and (ii) an external layer comprising a plurality of external threads, and
(b) a working reinforcement that includes at least one working ply, the working reinforcement being arranged radially internal to the protective reinforcement, wherein each of the at least one working ply includes working reinforcing elements, wherein each of the working reinforcing elements includes a working cord that includes at least one strand, wherein each of the at least one strand has a total of two layers of threads, the two layers of threads being (i) an internal layer of threads and (ii) an external layer of threads wrapped helically around the internal layer of threads, wherein the external layer of threads is unsaturated and an inter-thread distance between threads of the external layer of threads is greater than or equal to 40 μm,
wherein the protective reinforcing elements make an angle at least equal to 10° with a circumferential direction of the tire,
wherein the protective reinforcement is interposed radially between the tread and the working reinforcement,
wherein the inter-thread distance is greater than or equal to 50 μm,
wherein in the at least one strand, threads of the internal layer of threads and threads of the external layer of threads are wrapped in the same wrapping direction,
wherein the at least one protective ply has a different construction from the at least one working ply,
wherein in the at least one strand, the number of threads of the external layer of threads is equal to 7,
wherein in the at least one strand, diameters of the threads of the internal layer of threads and of the threads of the external layer of threads are the same,
wherein the at least one strand comprises a plurality of strands, and
wherein the plurality of strands comprises one or more internal strands and a plurality of external strands wrapped helically around a layer comprising the one or more internal strands, a pitch of the threads of the internal layer of threads of each of the plurality of external strands being different from a pitch of the threads of the internal layer of threads of each of the one or more internal strands, and a pitch of the threads of the external layer of threads of each of the plurality of external strands being different from a pitch of the threads of the external layer of threads of each of the one or more internal strands.

2. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the force at break (Fm) of each of the at least one protective ply is greater than or equal to 1500 daN·cm −1 .

3. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the force at break (Fm) of each of the at least one protective ply is greater than or equal to 1600 daN·cm −1 .

4. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the force at break (Fr) of each of the protective reinforcing elements is greater than or equal to 3500 N.

5. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the force at break (Fr) of each of the protective reinforcing elements is greater than or equal to 4500 N.

6. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the force at break (Fr) of each of the protective reinforcing elements is greater than or equal to 5500 N.

7. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein a pitch at which the protective reinforcing elements are laid ranges from 1.2 mm to 6.5 mm.

8. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein, for each of the working cords of the working reinforcing elements of the at least one ply, the working cord includes at least one internal cord layer and an external cord layer, wherein:
each of the at least one internal cord layer includes at least one internal strand,
the external cord layer includes a plurality of external strands, with each of the external strands including at least one internal layer of threads and an external layer of threads wrapped helically around the at least one internal layer of threads, and with the external layer of threads being unsaturated.

9. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least one working ply exhibits a force at break (FmNST) greater than or equal to 2000 daN·cm −1 .

10. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least one working ply exhibits a force at break (FmNST) greater than or equal to 3500 daN·cm −1 .

11. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least one working ply exhibits a force at break (FmNST) greater than or equal to 4000 daN·cm −1 .

12. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein each of the working reinforcing elements of the at least one working ply exhibits a force at break (Fr) greater than or equal to 15000 N.

13. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein a pitch at which the working reinforcing elements of the at least one working ply are laid ranges from 3.5 mm to 7.5 mm.

14. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the working reinforcing elements of the at least one working ply make an angle at most equal to 60° with a circumferential direction of the tire.

15. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the crown reinforcement includes a hoop reinforcement that includes at least one hooping ply.

16. The tire according to claim 15 , wherein each of the at least one hooping ply includes hoop reinforcing elements that make an angle at most equal to 10° with a circumferential direction of the tire.

17. The tire according to claim 16 , wherein the hoop reinforcement is arranged radially internal to the working reinforcement.

18. The tire according to claim 15 , wherein the hoop reinforcement is arranged radially internal to the working reinforcement.

19. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the protective reinforcement comprises another protective ply that has a different construction from the at least one protective ply and that is disposed radially internal with respect to the at least one protective ply.

20. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein each of the protective reinforcing elements comprises a cord having an unsaturated exterior.

Assignees

• Michelin & Cie
• Michelin Rech Tech

Inventors

• Clement Emmanuel
• Domingo Alain
• Sejalon Olivier

Classifications

• D07B1/0613

  the reinforcing cords being characterised by the rope configuration · CPC title

• B60C2009/0085

  Tensile strength · CPC title

• B60C2009/2077

  Diameters of the cords; Linear density thereof · CPC title

• B60C2009/2083

  Density in width direction · CPC title

• B60C9/2006 Primary

  consisting of steel cord plies only · CPC title