IP Library Granted Patent US 8,528,613
Granted Patent B2
US 8,528,613 · App. 12/451,967 · Granted Sep 10, 2013

Pneumatic tire

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Patent No.
US 8,528,613
App. No.
12/451,967
Granted
Sep 10, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pneumatic tire includes two cross belts having codes forming 5 to 30 degrees to a tire circumferential direction; a circumferential reinforcing layer having a width smaller than the cross belts, and having codes forming 0 to 5 degrees to the tire circumferential direction; and a carcass located inside, in a tire diameter direction, relative to a cross belt being inside among the cross belts. At 100% internal inflation pressure, a distance X 1 between an equatorial plane and an outer edge of the circumferential reinforcing layer is 60% to 75% of a distance W between the equatorial plane and an outermost section of the carcass, and at 5% internal inflation pressure, a distance Y between the equatorial plane and a separation section of the carcass and a belt outwardly adjoining the carcass is 95% to 105% of a distance X 2 between the equatorial plane and the outer edge.

Claims (21)

1. A pneumatic tire comprising:

at least two cross belts that have codes forming an angle of 5 degrees or greater and 30 degrees or less with respect to a tire circumferential direction;

a circumferential reinforcing layer that has a width smaller than smallest width of the cross belts, and that has codes forming an angle of 0 degrees or greater and 5 degrees or less with respect to the tire circumferential direction; a carcass located inside, in a tire diameter direction, relative to a cross belt being inside among the cross belts in the tire diameter direction; and

a high-angle belt which is provided on an outer side of the carcass in the tire diameter direction, wherein

outer edges of the high-angle belt extend further outwardly than outer edges of the circumferential reinforcing layer but further inwardly than outer edges of the cross belts in the width direction of the tire, and such that the outer edges of the high-angle belt are disposed offset in the width direction of the tire with respect to outer edges of the cross belts,

at 100% internal inflation pressure, a distance X 1 between an equatorial plane of the pneumatic tire and an outer edge, in a tire width direction, of the circumferential reinforcing layer is not less than 60% and not more than 75% of a distance W between the equatorial plane and an outermost section of the carcass in the tire width direction, and

at 5% internal inflation pressure, a distance Y between the equatorial plane and a separation section of the carcass and a belt outwardly adjoining the carcass in the tire diameter direction is not less than 95% and not more than 105% of a distance X 2 between the equatorial plane and the outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the circumferential reinforcing layer.

2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein, at 5% internal inflation pressure, a distance Z between the equatorial plane and a bottom of a circumferential groove provided in an outermost portion of the pneumatic tire in the tire width direction is not less than 95% and not more than 105% of the distance Y between the equatorial plane and the separation section.

3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein

when Qd is a distance between a rotation axis of the pneumatic tire and a position Q at which a perpendicular line extending from an outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction intersects the carcass, and when Pd is a distance between the separation section and the rotation axis, a difference between Pd and Qd is not less than 5% and not more than 7% of a product E of a nominal width of the pneumatic tire and a nominal aspect ratio of the pneumatic tire, and

when Sd is a distance between the rotation axis of the pneumatic tire and a position S at which a perpendicular line extending from a midpoint R intersects the carcass, the midpoint R being on the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction and between the separation section and the outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction, a difference between Pd and Sd is not less than 2% and not more than 4% of the product E of the nominal width of the pneumatic tire and the nominal aspect ratio of the pneumatic tire.

4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein,

in a cross section of the pneumatic tire taken along a meridional plane passing the rotation axis, at 5% internal inflation pressure, a perpendicular distance C from an outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction to the carcass is not less than 3% and not more than 4.5% of the product E of the nominal width of the pneumatic tire and the nominal aspect ratio of the pneumatic tire, and

a perpendicular distance D from a midpoint R to the carcass is not less than 1.3% and not more than 2.3% of the product E of the nominal width of the pneumatic tire and the nominal aspect ratio of the pneumatic tire, the midpoint being on the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction and between the separation section and the outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction.

5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the high-angle belt has codes that form an angle of 45 degrees or greater and 90 degrees or less with respect to the tire circumferential direction.

6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 5 , wherein

at 100% internal inflation pressure, a distance L between the equatorial plane and an outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the high-angle belt is not less than 75% and not more than 85% of the distance W between the equatorial plane and the outermost section of the carcass in the tire width direction,

a distance M between the equatorial plane and an outer edge, in the tire width direction, of the cross belt being inside in the tire diameter direction is not less than 85% and not more than 95% of the distance W between the equatorial plane and the outermost section of the carcass in the tire width direction, and

a distance N between the equatorial plane and an outer edge, in the tire width direction, of a cross belt being outside among the cross belts in the tire diameter direction is not less than 80% and not more than 90% of the distance W between the equatorial plane and the outermost section of the carcass in the tire width direction.

7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the nominal width of the pneumatic tire is equal to or greater than 300 mm.

8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein the nominal aspect ratio of the pneumatic tire is equal to or less than 70%.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS FOR ASSIGNEE Recorded Nov 18, 2023
From: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
To: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065626/0740 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2009
From: ISOBE, SATORU
To: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 023681/0824 →