Aircraft tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11325420-B2
Application number	US-201816772640-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2018
Priority date	Dec 13, 2017
Publication date	May 10, 2022
Grant date	May 10, 2022

Abstract

Provided is an aircraft tire which has both satisfactory light weight and satisfactory separation durability of carcass ply ends. An aircraft tire (10) includes a pair of bead cores (1), and a carcass (2) extending between the pair of the bead cores (1). In this aircraft tire (10), the carcass (2) includes at least one layer of a turn-up ply (2a) which is composed of a main body (2aa) and folded portions (2ab), and at least one layer of a down ply (2b) which covers a tire width-direction outer side of the respective folded portions (2ab) of the turn-up ply (2a) and extends to at least a tire radial-direction inner side of the respective bead cores (1); rubber-cord reinforcing members (6) are each arranged between the main body (2aa) of an outermost turn-up ply (2a) and the folded portion (2ab) of the turn-up ply (2a) extending to a tire radial-direction outermost side, and between the folded portion (2ab) of the turn-up ply (2a) extending to the tire radial-direction outermost side and an innermost down ply (2b); and cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members (6) have an elongation at break of not less than 30%.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An aircraft tire comprising:
a pair of bead cores; and
a carcass extending between the pair of the bead cores,
wherein
the carcass comprises: at least two turn-up ply layers, each of which is composed of a main body extending between the bead cores, and folded portions that are folded and extend around the respective bead cores from a tire width-direction inner side to an outer side; and at least one down ply layer, which covers a tire width-direction outer side of the respective folded portions of the turn-up ply layers and extends to at least a tire radial-direction inner side of the respective bead cores,
a rubber arranged between an innermost down ply layer and a folded portion of the turn-up ply layers; and
a first rubber-cord reinforcing member arranged between a main body of a tire width-direction outermost turn-up ply layer and a folded portion of a turn-up ply layer extending to a tire radial-direction outermost side, and a second rubber-cord reinforcing layer arranged between the folded portion of the turn-up ply layer extending to the tire radial-direction outermost side and a tire width-direction innermost down ply layer,
cords of the first and second rubber-cord reinforcing members have an elongation at break of not less than 30%, the elongation at break is measured when the cords are removed from the tire and stretched to breakage in accordance with measurement conditions prescribed in JIS L1017.

2. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

3. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein an inner end of each of the rubber cord reinforcing members is on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the bead core and on an outer side in a tire width direction of the bead core.

4. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one down ply layer comprises at least two downward ply layers.

5. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein an inner end of the first rubber-cord reinforcement in a tire radial direction is outside a folded portion of a second longest turn-up ply layer.

6. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have a final twist coefficient of 0.25 to 0.60.

7. The aircraft tire according to claim 6 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

8. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have an elongation at break of 30% to 45%.

9. The aircraft tire according to claim 8 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

10. The aircraft tire according to claim 8 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have a final twist coefficient of 0.25 to 0.60.

11. The aircraft tire according to claim 10 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

12. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have a total fineness of 100 to 1,000 dtex.

13. The aircraft tire according to claim 12 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

14. The aircraft tire according to claim 12 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have a final twist coefficient of 0.25 to 0.60.

15. The aircraft tire according to claim 14 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

16. The aircraft tire according to claim 12 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have an elongation at break of 30% to 45%.

17. The aircraft tire according to claim 16 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

18. The aircraft tire according to claim 16 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members have a final twist coefficient of 0.25 to 0.60.

19. The aircraft tire according to claim 18 , wherein the cords of the rubber-cord reinforcing members are made of nylon.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Suzumori Kiichiro

Classifications

• B60C2015/0692

  characterised by particular materials of the cords · CPC title

• B60C9/08 Primary

  the cords extend transversely from bead to bead, i.e. radial ply (B60C9/07 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60C2015/0642

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

• B60C15/0027

  with low ply turn-up, i.e. folded around the bead core and terminating at the bead core · CPC title

• B60C15/0628 Primary

  comprising a bead reinforcing layer · CPC title