Tires with improved rim fitability

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11400765-B2
Application number	US-201916669079-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2019
Priority date	Oct 31, 2018
Publication date	Aug 2, 2022
Grant date	Aug 2, 2022

Abstract

Provided is a tire with improved rim fitability that increases contact pressure of a heel by discharging air caught in a rim seat, makes rim fitability uniform by reducing a pressure difference, and increases a barcode recognition rate. The tire with improve rim fitability includes a rim seat having a rim check line, and a plurality of protrusions spaced apart from each other along a circumference of the rim seat and each including an upper protrusion unit and a lower protrusion unit, in which the upper protrusion unit and the lower protrusion unit are spaced apart from each other along the circumferential direction of the rim seat.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tire with rim fitability, comprising:
a rim seat disposed inside a tread of the tire to provide an area for a rim to be seated and having a rim check line;
a plurality of upper protrusions arranged along an outer circumference of the rim seat to be spaced apart from each other, each of the plurality of upper protrusions extending from the outer circumference of the rim seat in a respective radial straight line; and
a plurality of lower protrusions arranged along an inner circumference of the rim seat to be spaced apart from each other, each of the plurality of lower protrusions being apart from the inner circumference of the rim seat and extending in another respective radial straight line,
wherein each of the plurality of upper protrusions is spaced apart from its most adjacent lower protrusion of the plurality of lower protrusions in a circumferential direction of the rim seat,
wherein the rim seat has a heel point extending along the inner circumference thereof,
wherein a lower portion of each of the plurality of lower protrusions is tapered toward the heel point, and
wherein each of the plurality of lower protrusions has a lower end that is spaced apart from the heel point.

2. The tire of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of upper protrusions extends to the rim check line and perpendicularly protrudes from the rim seat.

3. The tire of claim 1 , wherein a distance between the lower end of each of the plurality of lower protrusions and the heel point is 3.9 to 4.1 mm.

4. The tire of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of upper protrusions is spaced apart from its most adjacent lower protrusion of the plurality of lower protrusions in the circumferential direction of the rim seat by 4.4 to 4.6 degrees.

5. The tire of claim 1 , wherein the rim seat includes a barcode that is disposed between one of the plurality of upper protrusions and its most adjacent lower protrusion such that 0 to less than 50% of any of barcode lines in the barcode is covered by the one of the plurality of upper protrusions or its most adjacent lower protrusion.

6. The tire of claim 1 , further comprising a round protrusion extending along an intermediate circumference of the rim seat, wherein lower ends of the plurality of upper protrusions and upper ends of the plurality of lower protrusions are positioned on the round protrusion.

Assignees

• Hankook Tire & Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Young Do
• Kim Kwang Tae
• Park In Jeong
• Heo Woo Haeng
• Kim Si Wan

Classifications

• B60C15/0226 Primary

  the bead being secured by protrusions of the rim extending from the bead seat, e.g. hump or serrations · CPC title

• B60C15/022

  the bead being secured by turned-in rim flanges, e.g. rim of the clincher type · CPC title

• B60C15/0242

  with bead extensions located radially outside the rim flange position, e.g. rim flange protectors · CPC title

• B60C15/024 Primary

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