IP Library Granted Patent US 12,236,302
Granted Patent B2
US 12,236,302 · App. 17/800,259 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Aircraft tire

Inventors: Tomoyuki Muramatsu (Tokyo, JP); Toshihiko Iwasaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
G06K19/07764B60C9/20B60C19/00B60C2019/004
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Patent No.
US 12,236,302
App. No.
17/800,259
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An aircraft tire has a pair of bead sections, sidewall sections extending from the bead sections, and a tread section extending between the sidewall sections; the aircraft tire includes an RFID tag having a tag main body (IC chip) configured to store information about the aircraft tire, and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein, in a tread surface view, the antenna is disposed such that an extending direction of the antenna is parallel to a tire width direction or intersects the tire width direction within a predetermined angle range, and the aircraft tire satisfies a configuration 0.1<L/W<0.2, where a width of the aircraft tire is denoted as “W” and a total length of the antenna in the extending direction of the antenna is denoted as “L”, and when a diameter of the aircraft tire is 21 inches or more.

Claims (10)

1. An aircraft tire having a pair of bead sections, sidewall sections extending from outer side in a radial direction of the bead sections, and a tread section extending between the sidewall sections, the aircraft tire comprising:

an RFID tag comprising: a tag main body configured to store information about the aircraft tire, and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein

a diameter of the aircraft tire is 21 inches or more,

the tag main body and the antenna of the RFID tag is sealed within a rubber patch and the rubber patch is attached to the tire inner surface of the tread section by an adhesive,

the antenna is a monopole antenna or a dipole antenna,

the antenna is disposed such that an extending direction of the antenna is parallel to a tire width direction or intersects the tire width direction within 5 degrees in a tread view, and

the aircraft tire satisfies a configuration 0.1<L/W<0.2, where a width of the aircraft tire is denoted as “W” and a total length of the antenna in the extending direction of the antenna is denoted as “L”, and when a diameter of the aircraft tire is 21 inches or more.

2. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the monopole antenna or the dipole antenna has a linear shape or wavy line shape.

3. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein the RFID tag is disposed circumferentially apart form a balance patch provided on the tire inner surface.

4. The aircraft tire according to claim 1 , wherein a belt part disposed in the tread section is made of a non-metal material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 17, 2022
From: MURAMATSU, TOMOYUKI; IWASAKI, TOSHIHIKO
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060829/0071 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-025382 · Feb 18, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230078891A1 · Mar 16, 2023
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