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US 11,642,918 · App. 16/669,486 · Granted May 9, 2023

Tire including sealant layer and sound-absorbing material layer

Inventors: Byeongho Seo (Daejeon, KR); Dami Jeong (Daejeon, KR); Changhwan Kang (Daejeon, KR); Hakjoo Kim (Daejeon, KR)
B60C19/002B60C19/122
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Patent No.
US 11,642,918
App. No.
16/669,486
Granted
May 9, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a tire including a sealant layer and a sound-absorbing material layer, and the tire includes a sound-absorbing material layer which is adhered to an inner surface of the tire and a sealant layer which is disposed between the inner surface of the tire and the sound-absorbing material layer and includes a sealant for adhering the sound-absorbing material layer to the inner surface of the tire. The tire has noise reduction performance while enabling a self-sealing operation to be carried out when a tire puncture occurs by adhering a sound-absorbing material layer to a sealant layer applied to an inner surface of the tire, improves flowability of the sealant by increasing average pore size of a sound-absorbing material, thereby reducing specific surface area between the sealant and the sound-absorbing material, and prevents fine pieces of the sound-absorbing material from deteriorating function of the sealant and can also maintain noise reduction performance by decreasing adhesion specific surface area between the surface of the nail and the sound-absorbing material even when a nail reaches the sound-absorbing material by penetrating the tire and the sealant.

Claims (6)

1. A tire including:

a sound-absorbing material layer which is adhered to an inner surface of the tire; and

a sealant layer which is disposed between the inner surface of the tire and the sound-absorbing material layer and includes a sealant for adhering the sound-absorbing material layer to the inner surface of the tire, wherein the sound-absorbing material layer includes a first porous material having an average pore size of 1,200 to 2,400 μm,

wherein the sound-absorbing material layer additionally includes a second porous material having an average pore size of 100 to 1,200 μm stacked on the first porous material, the average pore size of the second porous material is smaller than that of the first porous material, a first surface of the first porous material is adhered to the inner surface of the tire by the sealant layer, and the second porous material is stacked on a second surface of the first porous material that is opposite the first surface, and

wherein the sound-absorbing material layer has a thickness of 20 to 60 mm, and a thickness of the first porous material is 30 to 90 length % of the total thickness of the sound-absorbing material layer.

2. The tire of claim 1 , wherein the first porous material has a density of 25 to 40 kg/m 3 , a hardness of 10 to 20 kgf, a tensile strength of 0.8 kgf/cm 2 or more, and an elongation rate of 70% or more, and the second porous material has a density of 20 to 40 kg/m 3 , a hardness of 10 to 20 kgf, a tensile strength of 0.8 kgf/cm 2 or more, and an elongation rate of 70% or more.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2019
From: SEO, BYEONGHO; JEONG, DAMI; KANG, CHANGHWAN; KIM, HAKJOO
To: HANKOOK TIRE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050870/0519 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0158875 · Dec 11, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200180367A1 · Jun 11, 2020