Tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9902121-B2
Application number	US-201214364763-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2012
Priority date	Dec 12, 2011
Publication date	Feb 27, 2018
Grant date	Feb 27, 2018

Abstract

A tire includes: a tire frame member formed in a ring shape from a frame resin material, and including a pair of bead sections, a pair of side sections, and a crown section; a ring shaped bead core that is embedded in and joined to each of the bead sections, and that is formed by a single strand, or plurality of strands, of bead cord extending in the tire circumferential direction, and covered with, and joined to, a covering resin material; and an extension portion that extends from each of the bead cores in a direction that intersects with the tire circumferential direction when viewed from a tire side face, and that is joined to the tire frame member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A tire comprising:
an injection molded tire frame member formed in a ring shape from a frame resin material, and including a pair of bead sections disposed separated from each other along the tire width direction, a pair of side sections that extend from the pair of bead sections toward the tire radial direction outside, and a crown section that connects together the pair of side sections;
a welded ring shaped bead core that is embedded in and joined to each of the bead sections by welding, and that is formed by a single strand, or plurality of strands, of bead cord extending in the tire circumferential direction, and covered with, and joined to, an extruded covering resin material exhibiting thermo-plasticity; and
a welded extension portion that extends from each of the bead cores in a direction that intersects with the tire circumferential direction when viewed from a tire side face, the extension portion formed as a result of melting and flowing the covering resin material together with the tire frame member, the extension portion being joined to the tire frame member by welding,
wherein the extension portion extends from the bead core toward the tire radial direction outside, the extension portion is inserted into the side section, and the extension portion is inserted into the crown section.

2. The tire of claim 1 , wherein the extension portion is formed by extending a portion of the covering resin material configuring the bead core toward the tire radial direction outside.

3. The tire of claim 1 , wherein the covering resin material has higher adhesive properties to the bead cord than the frame resin material, and is bonded to the bead cord.

4. The tire of claim 1 , wherein the bead core is formed by winding the bead cord, covered with and joined to the covering resin material, a plurality of times along the tire circumferential direction, and by joining together the covering layers of the adjacent bead cords.

5. A tire comprising:
an injection molded tire frame member formed in a ring shape from a frame resin material, and including a pair of bead sections disposed separated from each other along the tire width direction, a pair of side sections that extend from the pair of bead sections toward the tire radial direction outside, and a crown section that connects together the pair of side sections;
a welded ring shaped bead core that is embedded in and joined to each of the bead sections by welding, and that is formed by a single strand, or plurality of strands, of bead cord extending in the tire circumferential direction, and covered with, and joined to, an extruded covering resin material exhibiting thermo-plasticity; and
a welded extension portion that extends from each of the bead cores in a direction that intersects with the tire circumferential direction when viewed from a tire side face, the extension portion formed as a result of melting and flowing the covering resin material together with the tire frame member, the extension portion being joined to the tire frame member by welding, wherein the covering resin material and the frame resin material are the same material as each other.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kouno Yoshihide
• Kon Seiji
• Hasegawa Keiichi

Classifications

• B60C5/01

  without substantial cord reinforcement, e.g. cordless tyres, cast tyres · CPC title

• B60C15/05

  multiple, i.e. with two or more cores in each bead · CPC title

• B29D30/48

  Bead-rings or bead-cores (from wire B21F37/00); Treatment thereof prior to building the tyre · CPC title

• B29D2030/482

  Applying fillers or apexes to bead cores · CPC title

• B60C2001/0058

  Compositions of the bead apexes · CPC title