Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9707803-B2
Application number	US-201214368586-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2012
Priority date	Feb 15, 2012
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

Tread rubber forms a ground contact surface. When the ground contact surface is divided into two parts: a mounting inner side and a mounting outer side, the tread rubber has an inner cap part that forms an inner ground contact surface and is produced from non-conductive rubber, and an outer cap part that forms an outer ground contact surface. The inner cap part has a branched conductive part that is formed from conductive rubber ranging from the ground contact surface of a mounting outer end of the inner cap part to the side surface or bottom surface of a mounting inner end while branching off at a plurality of positions. The outer cap part does not have branched conductive rubber. The branched conductive part is formed from the conductive rubber with a rubber hardness different from that of the non-conductive rubber that forms the inner cap part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire comprising:
a cap rubber which forms a ground surface, and a base rubber which is provided in an inner side in a tire diametrical direction of the cap rubber,
wherein the cap rubber has an inner cap rubber which is constructed by a non-conductive rubber forming an inner ground surface in the case that the ground surface is sectioned into two sides of a mounting inner side and a mounting outer side, and an outer cap rubber which is constructed by a non-conductive rubber and forms an outer ground surface,
wherein the inner cap rubber has a branched conductive part which reaches a side surface or a bottom surface of a mounting inner end part from the ground surface of a mounting outer end part of the inner cap rubber while being branched at a plurality of positions and is formed by a conductive rubber, and the outer cap rubber does not have any branched conductive rubber,
wherein the branched conductive part is formed by a conductive rubber which has a different rubber hardness from that of the non-conductive rubber forming the inner cap rubber, and
wherein the rubber hardness of the inner cap rubber is set to be lower than the rubber hardness of the outer cap rubber and the rubber hardness of the branched conductive part is set to be lower than the rubber hardness of the inner cap rubber.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the branched conductive part at least partly has a mesh position which is formed into a mesh shape in a tire meridian cross section.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the branched conductive part is formed by a conductive rubber which passes through an inner side in a diametrical direction than the ground surface while avoiding the position covering the ground surface.

Assignees

• Toyo Tire & Rubber Co

Inventors

• Kawakami Kazuki

Classifications

• B60C1/0016

  Compositions of the tread · CPC title

• B60C11/0058

  with different cap rubber layers in the axial direction · CPC title

• B60C19/082

  comprising a conductive tread insert · CPC title

• B60C2011/0016

  Physical properties or dimensions · CPC title

• B60C11/0041 Primary

  comprising different tread rubber layers · CPC title