Abstract:
A pneumatic vehicle tire is configured for mounting on a rim. The tire includes a bead region having a bead core disposed therein and a side wall. A carcass insert extends around the bead region and has a turn-up extending in the direction of the side wall. A rim rubber forms an outer surface of the bead region and includes a first rim rubber part made of an electrically non-conductive rubber mixture and a second rim rubber part made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The second rim rubber part runs within the tire and forms an electrically conductive connection to the rim while the first rim rubber part extends beyond the rim flange and is in contact with the rim flange. The first rim rubber part is made of a rubber mixture having a low hysteresis.
Abstract:
A tire includes a circumferential tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions. Each bead portion includes a bead and a bead filler. The tire further includes at least one body ply extending from bead portion to bead portion. The body ply includes a pair of turn up portions radially outside of a respective bead portion. An electronic device is embedded in the tire. The electronic device is encapsulated in a curable adhesive including at least one of natural rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, and butadiene rubber.
Abstract:
A tire assembly includes a tire having a pneumatic cavity, first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region with the first sidewall having at least one bending region operatively bending when radially within a rolling tire footprint, and a chafer component with an air passageway defined by an air tube resiliently deforming segment by segment between an expanded condition and an at least partially collapsed condition in response to respective segment by segment deformation of the sidewall when radially within the rolling tire footprint. The air tube is inserted into the chafer before assembly with other components of an uncured tire and curing of the uncured tire.
Abstract:
A pneumatic vehicle tire has a carcass with at least one carcass ply. The surface of the carcass ply has an overlay made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The overlay extends continuously from an electrically conductive bead base to a superstructure and contacts the superstructure. A method for making a pneumatic vehicle tire includes the steps of making a carcass ply, covering a surface of the carcass ply with a continuous overlay made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The overlay contacts an electrically conductive bead base and the superstructure in the finished pneumatic vehicle tire.
Abstract:
A tire assembly includes a tire having a pneumatic cavity, first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region, the first sidewall having at least one bending region operatively bending when radially within a rolling tire footprint, and a chafer component with an air passageway defined by an air tube resiliently deforming segment by segment between an expanded condition and an at least partially collapsed condition in response to respective segment by segment deformation of the sidewall when radially within the rolling tire footprint. The tire assembly pumps a constant volume of air for every revolution of the tire thus providing a linear pumping rate regardless of dead volumes in the tire.
Abstract:
A tire includes a pair of beads, a carcass, chafers, an insulation, and cushion layers. Each bead includes a core positioned inward of the bead in a radial direction. At an inside of the core in the radial direction, the insulation is laminated on the chafers so as to be located outward of the chafers in the radial direction. Each cushion layer is laminated on the insulation so as to be located outward of the insulation in the radial direction. The insulation and the cushion layer are formed from respective crosslinked rubbers different from each other. A compressive elastic modulus Eα* of the crosslinked rubber of the cushion layer is smaller than a compressive elastic modulus Eβ* of the crosslinked rubber of the insulation.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire construction is described suitable for severe loading conditions. The tire includes a bead portion further having an apex which extends radially outward of the bead core, and a first turn-up pad located adjacent said chafer, and a second turn-up pad located adjacent said first turn-up pad, wherein the first turn-up pad has a G′ less than the G′ of the second turn-up pad. Alternatively, the first turn-up pad may be located adjacent to the rim flange and the second turn-up pad may be located axially inward of the first pad. The second turn-up pad is preferably thicker and longer than the first turn-up pad.
Abstract:
A tire which is intended to bear heavy loads and the endurance of which is improved. The tire contains, in the bead region, at least one internal annular insert, the said insert having a rubber composition containing a polyisoprene elastomer, between 45 phr and 60 phr of a reinforcing filler containing from 43 to 55 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler with a BET specific surface of between 155 and 185 m2/g, and a coupling agent for bonding the reinforcing inorganic filler to the elastomer.
Abstract:
Provided are: a tire mold including a bead portion molding surface for molding the bead portion of the tire, the bead portion molding surface having a ridge molding part including a recessed groove extending in the mold radial direction, the ridge molding part being formed in a flange contact portion molding region for molding a rim-flange contact portion of the tire; and a pneumatic tire, in which a bead filler has the tire radial direction outer end positioned more inward in the tire radial direction relative to the rim line position, and a ridge forming portion including a ridge extending in the tire radial direction is formed on the outer surface of the bead portion, the ridge forming portion being positioned in the rim flange contact portion.
Abstract:
Provided is a pneumatic radial tire having a rubber chafer arranged on the carcass ply in a contacting area of a bead portion with a rim; a bead filler arranged radially outside on the bead core; and a side rubber extending along an outer surface of the carcass in each a side wall portion. When inflated with a predetermined pneumatic pressure, an outer end of the folded portion of the carcass and an outer end of the bead filler are placed inward from an outer end r of a rim flange of the rim in the radial direction; an outer end of the rubber chafer is placed outward from the outer end r of the rim flange in the radial direction; and a part of a side rubber located outward from the outer end of the rim flange in the radial direction is disposed between the rubber chafer.