Pneumatic tire with bead having enhanced stiffness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11034193-B2
Application number	US-201715424754-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2017
Priority date	Mar 17, 2016
Publication date	Jun 15, 2021
Grant date	Jun 15, 2021

Abstract

Disclosed is a pneumatic tire with a bead having enhanced endurance, more particularly, a pneumatic tire with a bead having enhanced stiffness in which at least one bead core is provided and a carcass does not have a turn-up structure at an end thereof such that stiffness of the bead and sidewall is enhanced. The pneumatic tire includes bead cores in which multi-layered bead wire cords are coiled, bead fillers adhering to the bead cores having at least two rows, and a carcass ply disposed between the bead cores of the bead fillers, the carcass ply having a linear shape without a turn-up structure, wherein a left bead filler and a right bead filler including the bead cores including the bead wire cords are disposed at both sides of the carcass ply, and each of the left and right bead fillers has a diameter decreasing upward from a bead base.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire with a bead having enhanced stiffness comprising:
bead cores, wherein each bead core comprises several bead wire cords that are concentrically arranged in a radial direction;
bead fillers adhering to the bead cores having at least two rows; and
a carcass ply disposed between the bead cores of the bead fillers, the carcass ply being disposed to have a linear shape without a turn-up structure in order to prevent residual stress of the carcass ply,
wherein a left bead filler and a right bead filler comprising the bead cores including the bead wire cords are disposed at both sides of the carcass ply,
wherein each of the bead wire cords of the left and right bead fillers has a diameter decreasing upward from a bead base, and the bead fillers are formed such that the bead cores each have a triangular profile in order to enhance stiffness of the bead and a sidewall of the tire,
wherein each bead core having a triangular profile is within a bead filler also having a triangular profile, and
wherein the bead wire cords of the left bead filler each have different diameters and the bead wire cords of the right bead filler each have different diameters.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the bead wire cords respectively disposed at the left and right bead fillers have assembly heights, and the assembly height of the left bead filler disposed at an inside of the tire is determined to be smaller than the assembly height of the right bead filler disposed at an outside of the tire.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the bead wire cords respectively disposed at the left and right bead fillers have assembly heights, and the assembly height of the left bead filler is determined to be greater than the assembly height of the right bead filler.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the bead wire cords comprises a bundle of wires, each wire in the bundle of wires having an identical cross-sectional diameter, wherein each of those diameters is smaller than a diameter of the respective bead wire cord.

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein each bead wire cord comprises a central wire and peripheral wires each having a cross-sectional diameter smaller than the central wire while surrounding the central wire.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein each bead wire cord comprises one wire having a same cross-sectional diameter as the respective bead wire cord.

Assignees

• Hankook Tire Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sohn Gui Jung
• Shin Hun Cheol

Classifications

• B60C15/0018 Primary

  not folded around the bead core, e.g. floating or down ply · CPC title

• B60C15/04

  Bead cores · CPC title

• B60C2015/046

  Cable cores, i.e. cores made-up of twisted wires · CPC title

• B60C2200/04

  for road vehicles, e.g. passenger cars · CPC title

• B60C15/05 Primary

  multiple, i.e. with two or more cores in each bead · CPC title