Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11472230-B2
Application number	US-201716497029-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2017
Priority date	Mar 30, 2016
Publication date	Oct 18, 2022
Grant date	Oct 18, 2022

Abstract

A pneumatic tire comprising a carcass 11, at least one inclined belt layer 13 having a cord extending inclined at an angle of 30° or more relative to the tire circumferential direction, and a tread 15 arranged outward in the tire radial direction of the inclined belt layer 13, wherein a circumferential cord layer 14 arranged inward in the tire radial direction of the tread 15 has a high-rigidity region and a low-rigidity region and the high-rigidity region has a higher negative ratio in a ground contact width of the tread 15 than the low-rigidity region.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire comprising:
a carcass toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions, at least one inclined belt layer arranged outward in a tire radial direction of a crown portion of the carcass and having a cord extending inclined relative to a tire circumferential direction, and a tread arranged outward in the tire radial direction of the inclined belt layer,
one or more circumferential grooves, and
at least one circumferential cord layer having a cord extending along the tire circumferential direction is arranged inward in the tire radial direction of the tread, wherein
the inclined belt layer includes at least a wide-width inclined belt layer having a relatively wide width in the tire width direction and a narrow-width inclined belt layer having a relatively narrow width in the tire width direction, both passing through the tire equator, and when an inclination angle relative to the tire circumferential direction of the cord of the wide-width inclined belt layer is θ1 and an inclination angle relative to the tire circumferential direction of the cord of the narrow-width inclined belt layer is θ2,
30°≤θ1≤85°, 10°≤θ2≤30°, and, θ1 ≥θ2 are satisfied,
the inclined belt layer has a high-rigidity region which is a region including the tire equator and in which the rigidity in the tire circumferential direction per unit width in the tire width direction is high, and a low-rigidity region which is a region on each side in the tire width direction of the high-rigidity region and in which the rigidity in the tire circumferential direction per unit width in the tire width direction is low,
the high-rigidity region has a higher negative ratio in a ground contact width of the tread than the low-rigidity region; and
a groove width of a circumferential groove, which has a maximum groove width from among all of the one or more circumferential grooves, is 4 to 10 mm;
wherein when W 1 denotes a width in the tire width direction of a widest-width inclined belt layer having the widest width in the tire width direction in the inclined belt layer, W 2 denotes a width in the tire width direction of a narrowest-width inclined belt layer having the narrowest width in the tire width direction in the inclined belt layer, and D 1 and D 2 respectively denote the longer and the shorter among the distances in the tire width direction from each end in the tire width direction of the widest-width inclined belt layer to each end in the tire width direction of the narrowest-width inclined belt layer on a side close to each end in the tire width direction of the widest-width inclined belt layer,
W2/W1=0.2 to 0.7, and, D1/D2=2.0 to 8.0 are satisfied.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a pattern of the tread has a negative ratio of a pattern of 30% or less,
the one or more circumferential grooves comprise 2 to 4 circumferential main grooves, and
a groove width of each of the circumferential grooves is in the range of 4 to 10 mm.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a number of cords of the carcass is 20 to 60 cords/50 mm.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
further comprising an inner liner arranged on a tire inner surface,
wherein an air permeation coefficient of a rubber composition constituting the inner liner arranged on the tire inner surface is set to 1.0×10-14 cc·cm/(cm2 ·s·cm Hg) to 6.5×10-10 cc·cm/(cm2 ·s·cm Hg).

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kuwayama Isao

Classifications

• B60C11/033 Primary

  by the void or net-to-gross ratios of the patterns · CPC title

• B60C9/20 Primary

  built-up from rubberised plies each having all cords arranged substantially parallel · CPC title

• Y02T10/86

  Optimisation of rolling resistance, e.g. weight reduction · CPC title

• B60C2009/2058

  being different between adjacent plies · CPC title

• B60C9/30

  asymmetric to the midcircumferential plane of the tyre · CPC title