Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11364750-B2
Application number	US-201816768629-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2018
Priority date	Nov 29, 2017
Publication date	Jun 21, 2022
Grant date	Jun 21, 2022

Abstract

A pneumatic tire is provided. In a meridian cross-section, an external contour shape of the bead core is a polygon formed by common tangent lines of a plurality of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the external contour shape includes a single vertex located toward the outside in a tire radial direction, an internal angle formed by two sides sandwiching the vertex is an acute angle, a bottom side of the external contour shape is inclined with respect to the tire lateral direction by from 2° to 9°, and the carcass layer is bent and folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from a position of an outer end of the bead core in the tire radial direction extends toward a sidewall portion in contact with a body portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire, comprising:
a tread portion with an annular shape that extends in a tire circumferential direction;
a pair of sidewall portions disposed on either side of the tread portion;
a pair of bead portions disposed toward the inside of the sidewall portions in a tire radial direction;
a bead core disposed in each one of the pair of bead portions;
a carcass layer mounted between the pair of bead portions; and
a side reinforcing layer having a crescent-shaped cross-section disposed toward the inside in a tire lateral direction of the carcass layer at each one of the pair of sidewall portions, wherein
the bead core comprises at least one bead wire wound in the tire circumferential direction,
in a meridian cross-section, a plurality of circumferential portions of the bead wire form at least one row in line in the tire lateral direction and a plurality of layers layered in the tire radial direction,
in a meridian cross-section, an external contour shape of the bead core is a polygon formed by common tangent lines of the circumferential portions of the bead wire, the external contour shape comprises a single vertex located toward the outside in the tire radial direction,
an internal angle formed by two sides sandwiching the vertex is an acute angle, the external contour shape comprises a bottom side located toward the inside in the tire radial direction extending at an incline with respect to the tire lateral direction, and the bottom side forms an angle with respect to the tire lateral direction from 2° to 9°;
the carcass layer comprises a body portion that extends from the tread portion, through a sidewall portion of the pair of sidewall portions, to a bead portion of the pair of bead portions, and a folded back portion that is bent and folded back along a circumference of the bead core in each one of the bead portions and is extending from a position of an outer end of the bead core in the tire radial direction toward one of the pair of sidewall portions in contact with the body portion;
a width W 1 in the tire lateral direction of an innermost layer of the bead core in the tire radial direction and a maximum width W 0 in the tire lateral direction of the bead core satisfy a relationship W 1 <W 0 ; and
in a meridian cross-section, a tire cross-sectional width T 1 along an auxiliary line A 1 and a tire cross-sectional width T 2 along an auxiliary line A 2 satisfy a relationship 0.7≤T 1 /T 2 ≤1.5,
where the auxiliary line A 1 is an auxiliary line running orthogonal to the carcass layer that passes through an intersection point P 1 of a straight line L 1 extending parallel with a tire width direction separated from a bead toe 20 mm toward the outside in the tire radial direction and a contour line of an outer surface of the sidewall portion and A 2 is an auxiliary line that passes through a center of gravity of the bead core and extends in an inclination direction of the bottom side of the external contour shape.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
portions located between a bead toe and a bead heel of the bead portions are defined as bead base portions, and
contour lines of the bead base portions in a meridian cross-section bend and have two different taper angles.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 2 , wherein
a relationship 0.3≤α/β≤0.8 is satisfied,
where α is a length in the tire radial direction from an intersection point P 2 of a perpendicular line L 2 that extends to the bottom side from the vertex of the external contour shape and an outer surface of the carcass layer located toward the inside of the bead core in the tire radial direction to a bend point of contour lines of the bead base portions and β is a length in the tire radial direction from the intersection point P 2 to the bead toe.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein at least one internal angle of corner portions located on either end of the bottom side of the external contour shape is 90° or greater.

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a distance T between intersection points P 4 and P 5 is from 3.1 mm to 4.0 mm,
where, in a meridian cross-section, P 4 is an intersection point of a straight line L 3 extending in the tire radial direction contacting with an inner side in a tire axial direction of a circumferential portion of the plurality of circumferential portions of the bead wire located innermost in the tire axial direction and an outer surface of the carcass layer 4 and P 5 is an intersection point of the straight line L 3 and a contour line of a bead base portion.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the carcass layer comprises only one layer.

7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a rubber layer located further toward the inside in the tire radial direction than a portion of the carcass layer contacting the bottom side of the external contour shape is defined as a core lower material, and
a core lower material compression ratio Cm calculated by Formula 1 below using a thickness H of the core lower material measured along a perpendicular line L 2 from the vertex of the external contour shape to the bottom side before mounting on a rim and a thickness H′ of the core lower material measured along the perpendicular line L 2 after mounting on a rim is from 10% to 60%;
Cm =( H−H ′)/ H× 100  (1).

8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 7 , wherein
portions located between a bead toe and a bead heel of the bead portions are defined as bead base portions, and
contour lines of the bead base portions in a meridian cross-section bend and have two different taper angles.

9. The pneumatic tire according to claim 8 , wherein
a relationship 0.3≤α/β≤0.8 is satisfied,
where α is a length in the tire radial direction from an intersection point P 2 of a perpendicular line L 2 that extends to the bottom side from the vertex of the external contour shape and an outer surface of the carcass layer located toward the inside of the bead core in the tire radial direction to a bend point of a contour lines of the bead base portions and β is a length in the tire radial direction from the intersection point P 2 to the bead toe.

10. The pneumatic tire according to claim 9 , wherein at least one internal angle of corner portions located on either end of the bottom side of the external contour shape is 90° or greater.

11. The pneumatic tire according to claim 10 , wherein
a distance T between intersection points P 4 and P 5 is from 3.1 mm to 4.0 mm,
where, in a meridian cross-section, P 4 is an intersection point of a straight line L 3 extending in the tire radial direction contacting with an inner side in a tire axial direction of a circumferential portion of the plurality of circumferential portions of the bead wire located innermost in the tire axial direction and an outer surface of the carcass layer 4 and P 5 is an intersection point of the straight line L 3 and a contour line of a bead base portion.

12. The pneumatic tire according to claim 11 , wherein the carcass layer comprises only one layer.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takemori Ryohei
• Nagayasu Masaaki
• Sasaya Yuki
• Tanno Atsushi
• Kouda Hiraku
• Matsuda Jun

Classifications

• B60C17/0009

  comprising sidewall rubber inserts, e.g. crescent shaped inserts · CPC title

• B60C15/024 Primary

  Bead contour, e.g. lips, grooves, or ribs · CPC title

• B60C2015/0245

  Bead lips at the bead toe portion, i.e. the axially and radially inner end of the bead · CPC title

• B60C15/0036

  with high ply turn-up, i.e. folded around the bead core and terminating radially above the point of maximum section width · CPC title

• B60C2015/0614

  characterised by features of the chafer or clinch portion, i.e. the part of the bead contacting the rim · CPC title