Agricultural machine tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9573425-B2
Application number	US-201214240493-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2012
Priority date	Aug 29, 2011
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

It is an object to reduce tire vibration during high-speed travel on paved roads without lowering traction performance in fields. An agricultural machine tire includes: lug blocks disposed in a tread portion and formed alternately on both sides of a tire equatorial plane in a tire circumferential direction; and a central rib extending in the tire circumferential direction and to which end portions of the lug blocks on the tire equatorial plane side are integrally connected, and when a tire width length of the central rib from connecting portions to the tire equatorial plane is taken as a first rib width and a tire width length of the central rib from end edges of the central rib from the connecting portions across the tire equatorial plane to the tire equatorial plane is a second rib width, the width of the first rib is greater than the second rib.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An agricultural machine tire, comprising:
lug blocks that are disposed in a tread portion and are formed alternately on both sides of a tire equatorial plane in a tire circumferential direction; and
a central rib that extends in the tire circumferential direction at a tire width direction central portion of the tread portion and to which the lug blocks on the tire equatorial plane side are integrally connected at connecting portions,
wherein a first rib width is configured to be greater than a second rib width, the first rib width being a distance in a tire width direction from the connecting portions to the tire equatorial plane and the second rib width being a distance in the tire width direction from the tire equatorial plane to end edges of the central rib positioned on an opposite side of the tire equatorial plane from the connecting portions of the first rib width, and
wherein a distance in the tire width direction
from the connecting portions to tire width direction outside ends of the lug blocks continuous with those connecting portions is configured to be greater than a connecting portion rib width that is the sum of the first rib width and the second rib width.

2. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 1 , wherein the central rib is inclined in alternate directions in the tire width direction with respect to the tire circumferential direction, with the connecting portion rib width as an extension thereof.

3. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 1 , wherein grooves are disposed in the central rib.

4. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 1 , wherein a maximum rib width that is twice the first rib width is 10% to 30% of a tread width of the tread portion.

5. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 1 , wherein the first rib width is 10% to 30% of a tread width of the tread portion.

6. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 1 , wherein the second rib width is 10% to 30% of a tread width of the tread portion.

7. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 1 , wherein the lug blocks are inclined toward the opposite side of a tire rotational direction from an inner side in the tire width direction to an outer side in the tire width direction.

8. The agricultural machine tire according to claim 7 , wherein an angle of inclination of the lug blocks at the connecting portions with respect to the tire width direction is 20° to 50° .

Assignees

• Kodama Takashi
• Tedesco Adriano
• Alberelli Massimiliano
• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kodama Takashi
• Tedesco Adriano
• Alberelli Massimiliano

Classifications

• B60C11/0311 Primary

  Patterns comprising tread lugs arranged parallel or oblique to the axis of rotation · CPC title

• B60C2200/08

  for agricultural vehicles · CPC title

• B60C2011/0388

  provided at the equatorial plane · CPC title

• B60C2011/0313

  directional type · CPC title

• B60C11/0304

  Asymmetric patterns · CPC title