Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11554615-B2
Application number	US-201816768643-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2018
Priority date	Dec 1, 2017
Publication date	Jan 17, 2023
Grant date	Jan 17, 2023

Abstract

In a pneumatic tire, bead cores have a wire arrangement. In a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction, a tangential line and a contact point are defined. The tangential line contacts an innermost layer in a radial direction and the wire cross sections innermost and outermost in a lateral direction in the wire arrangement from a rim fitting surface side. The contact point of the tangent line is on the wire cross section on the outermost side. A gauge Wh in the lateral direction from the contact point to the rim fitting surface and an outer diameter φ of the bead wire have a relationship 2.0≤Wh/φ≤15.0. A radial height H2 of a contact portion between a body portion and a turned back portion of a carcass layer has a relationship 0.80≤H2/H1≤3.00 to a radial height H1 of the bead cores.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire, comprising:
bead cores formed by annularly and multiply winding one or a plurality of bead wires;
a carcass layer formed of a carcass ply of a single layer or a plurality of layers, the carcass layer being turned back so as to wrap the bead cores and extended between the bead cores;
a rim cushion rubber disposed along a turned back portion of the carcass layer to constitute a rim fitting surface of a bead portion;
the turned back portion of the carcass layer contacting a body portion of the carcass layer in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction to form a closed region surrounding the bead cores;
a rubber occupancy ratio in the closed region being in a range of 15% or less;
the bead cores having a predetermined wire arrangement structure formed by arranging wire cross sections of the bead wires in the cross-sectional view in the tire meridian direction;
a tangential line L 1 and a contact point C 2 being defined, the tangential line L 1 contacting an innermost layer in a tire radial direction and the wire cross sections innermost and outermost in a tire lateral direction in the wire arrangement structure from the rim fitting surface side, the contact point C 2 of the tangent line L 1 being on the wire cross section outermost in the tire lateral direction;
a gauge Wh in the tire lateral direction from the contact point C 2 to the rim fitting surface and an outer diameter y of the bead wire having a relationship 2.0≤Wh/φ≤15.0; and
a radial height H 2 of a contact portion between the body portion and the turned back portion of the carcass layer having a relationship 0.80≤H 2 /H 1 ≤3.00 to a radial height H 1 of the bead cores; wherein
a layer in which a number of arrangements of the wire cross sections is a maximum in the wire arrangement structure is defined as a maximum arrangement layer,
a number of layers of the wire cross sections outward in the tire radial direction with respect to the maximum arrangement layer is greater than a number of layers of the wire cross sections inward in the tire radial direction with respect to the maximum arrangement layer,
a number of arrangements of the wire cross sections in each layer outward in the tire radial direction with respect to the maximum arrangement layer monotonically decreases outward in the tire radial direction from the maximum arrangement layer,
an arrangement angle θ 2 of the wire cross sections at a corner portion inward in the tire radial direction and outward in the tire lateral direction of the wire arrangement structure is in a range 100 degrees≤θ 2 ≤150 degrees, and
a total number of layers of the wire cross sections is greater than or equal to the number of arrangements of the wire cross sections in the maximum arrangement layer.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
an actual length La 2 of a contact portion between the body portion and the turned back portion of the carcass layer has a relationship 0.30≤La 2 /La 1 ≤2.00 with respect to a circumferential length La 1 of the closed region.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a height Hc 2 from the tangent line L 1 to a maximum width position of the bead cores and a maximum height Hc 1 of the bead cores have a relationship 1.10≤(Hc 1 −Hc 2 )/Hc 2 ≤2.80.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a length T 1 of a perpendicular line drawn from an end portion of the turned back portion of the carcass layer to an outer surface of a tire side portion and a thickness T 2 of the outer side reinforcing rubber on the perpendicular line have a relationship 0.10≤T 2 /T 1 ≤0.90.

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
an outer side reinforcing rubber covers an end portion of the turned back portion of the carcass layer from outward in the tire lateral direction.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 5 , wherein
a difference ΔHs_RC between the rubber hardness of the rim cushion rubber and the rubber hardness of the outer side reinforcing rubber is three or greater.

7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 6 , wherein
when a tire nominal width W (mm), a tire nominal inner diameter I (inch), and a total cross-sectional area B (mm 2 ) of the bead wires in the bead cores are defined, a value K defined by Equation (1) is in a range 0.17≤K;

K
=

W

4
3

×

I

2
3

100
×

B
2

.

Equation
⁢

(
1
)

8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 5 , wherein
a radial height H 3 from a measurement point of a tire inner diameter RD to an end portion outward of the outer side reinforcing rubber in the tire radial direction and a tire cross-sectional height SH have a relationship 0.10≤H 3 /SH≤0.60.

9. The pneumatic tire according to claim 5 , wherein
a radial height H 4 from an end portion of the turned back portion of the carcass layer to an end portion outward of the outer side reinforcing rubber in a tire radial direction has a relationship 0.30≤H 4 /H 2 to a radial height H 2 of a contact portion between the body portion and the turned back portion of the carcass layer.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tanno Atsushi
• Koda Hiraku
• Matsuda Jun

Classifications

• B60C15/04 Primary

  Bead cores · CPC title

• B60C2015/0621

  adjacent to the carcass turnup portion · CPC title

• B60C2015/046

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

• B60C15/0054

  with ply turn-up portion parallel and adjacent to carcass main portion · CPC title

• B60C2015/009

  Height of the carcass terminal portion defined in terms of a numerical value or ratio in proportion to section height · CPC title