Pneumatic tire mount method, and combination pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9889710-B2
Application number	US-201414904677-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2014
Priority date	Jul 24, 2013
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

Each pneumatic tire disposed on the rear wheel side has a total groove surface area ratio of 20% or more and 27% or less in ground-contacting width. Each pneumatic tire disposed on the front wheel side and the rear wheel side has a smaller groove surface area ratio on the vehicle outer side than on the vehicle inner side in the ground-contacting width. The difference in the groove surface area ratio is 7% or more and 15% or less. The total groove surface area ratio is greater on the front wheel side than on the rear wheel side, the difference in the total groove surface area ratio being 3% or more and 10% or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire mount method used with a plurality of pneumatic tires mounted on a vehicle, comprising: determining an orientation of an inner side and an outer side with respect to left and right sides of the vehicle, and determining a position on a front wheel side and a rear wheel side of the vehicle, for each of the pneumatic tires; wherein
each of the pneumatic tires are provided with at least one circumferential direction groove formed in a tread surface on a vehicle inner side and vehicle outer side of a tire equatorial plane, and extending in a tire circumferential direction, and provided with a plurality of lug grooves formed in the tire circumferential direction, extending in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction groove, at least on the tread surface of a land portion on an outermost side in a tire width direction, among a plurality of land portions partitioned by the circumferential direction groove and extending in the tire circumferential direction;
each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the rear wheel side have a total groove surface area ratio with respect to a ground contact width of not less than 20% and not more than 27%;
each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side also have a groove surface area ratio that is smaller on the vehicle outer side than on the vehicle inner side, with respect to the ground contact width, a difference in the groove surface area ratio, calculated as a percentage, being not less than 7 and not more than 15;
each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side also have the total groove surface area ratio with respect to the ground contact width that is greater on the front wheel side than on the rear wheel side, a difference in the total groove surface area ratio, calculated as a percentage, being not less than 3 and not more than 10;
each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side also have a ratio of an average value of a groove width of all of the circumferential direction grooves on the vehicle inner side to a groove width of one of the circumferential direction grooves having a greatest width on the vehicle inner side, with respect to the ground contact width, that is greater on the rear wheel side than on the front wheel side, a difference in the ratio of the circumferential direction grooves, calculated as a percentage, being not less than 1 and not more than 10; and
each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side also have a ratio of a total groove surface area of the lug grooves on the vehicle outer side to a total groove surface area of the lug grooves on the vehicle inner side, with respect to the ground contact width, that is greater on the front wheel side than on the rear wheel side, a difference in the total groove surface area ratio of the lug grooves, calculated as a percentage, being not less than 6 and not more than 20.

2. The pneumatic tire mount method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side has a ratio of the groove width of one of the circumferential direction grooves having the greatest width on the vehicle outer side of the front wheel side to the ground contact width, calculated as a percentage, that is not less than 7% and not more than 9%, and has a ratio of the groove width of the one of the circumferential direction grooves having the greatest width on the vehicle outer side of the rear wheel side to the ground contact width, calculated as a percentage, that is not less than 6% and not more than 8%, a difference in the ratio of the one of the circumferential direction grooves having the greatest width on the vehicle outer side to the ground contact width, calculated as a percentage, between the front wheel side and the rear wheel side being within 1, and the ratio of the average value of the groove width of all of the circumferential direction grooves on the vehicle inner side to the groove width of the one of the circumferential direction grooves having the greatest width on the vehicle inner side, with respect to the ground contact width, is greater on the rear wheel side than on the front wheel side, the difference in the ratio of the circumferential direction grooves, calculated as a percentage, being not less than 4 and not more than 10.

3. The pneumatic tire mount method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side has a total groove surface area of the lug grooves on the front wheel side be greater on the vehicle outer side than on the vehicle inner side, and has a total groove surface area of the lug grooves on the rear wheel side be greater on the vehicle inner side than on the vehicle outer side.

4. The pneumatic tire mount method according to claim 2 , wherein each of the pneumatic tires arranged on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side has a total groove surface area of the lug grooves on the front wheel side be greater on the vehicle outer side than on the vehicle inner side, and has a total groove surface area of the lug grooves on the rear wheel side be greater on the vehicle inner side than on the vehicle outer side.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• Horiuchi Kenji

Classifications

• B60C11/033 Primary

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

• B60C19/001

  Tyres requiring an asymmetric or a special mounting · CPC title

• B60C11/0332

  by the footprint-ground contacting area of the tyre tread · CPC title

• B60C11/0304

  Asymmetric patterns · CPC title

• B60C11/0306

  Patterns comprising block rows or discontinuous ribs · CPC title