Abstract:
The present invention provides a tubeless tire in which air permeability is significantly decreased. Specifically, the present invention relates to a tubeless tire wherein an air chamber is formed between the inner face of a tire body and a rim, by mounting the tire body to the periphery of the rim, and a gas barrier layer, comprising an inorganic layered compound having a particle size of at most 5 μm and an aspect ratio of 50 to 5000 and a resin, is formed on the inner face of the tire body.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pneumatic rubber tire having an integral innerliner of a sulfur cured rubber composition. The innerliner rubber composition is comprised of at least one elastomer selected from bromobutyl rubber and chlorobutyl rubber which also contains a dispersion therein of pre-cured diene-based rubber particles.
Abstract:
A method for preventing air permeation from a pneumatic tire wherein there is arranged inside the tire an air permeation preventive layer formed of a thermoplastic resin film produced by mixing and extruding at least two thermoplastic resins which are incompatible with each other, the film having a matrix phase of a first of the resins in which there is dispersed a dispersed phase having an oriented lamellar structure and formed of a second of the resins, wherein the ratio of melt viscosity of the second resin to that of the first resin at the molding temperature of the incompatible thermoplastic resins is preferably 1.5 to 20.
Abstract:
A halobutyl rubber is generally used in the innerliner of pneumatic tires to retard the escape of air used to inflate the tire, thereby maintaining tire pressure. Since halobutyl rubbers, such as bromobutyl rubber, are generally the most expensive elastomers used in tires, it is desirable from a standpoint of cost reduction to reduce the level of halobutyl rubbers used in tires. The present invention relates to a technique for reducing the quantity of halobutyl rubber utilized in the innerliner of tubeless pneumatic vehicle tires. The present invention more specifically relates to a tire innerliner and pneumatic tires containing the same, which are prepared from a composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of rubber, a blend of (1) about 50 parts to about 90 parts of a halobutyl rubber and (2) about 10 parts to about 50 parts of a styrene-isoprene-butadiene terpolymer rubber having a first glass transition temperature which is within the range of about -110.degree. C. to about -20.degree. C. and a second glass transition temperature which is within the range of about -50.degree. C. to about 0.degree. C., wherein said styrene-isoprene-butadiene terpolymer rubber contains about 20 weight percent to about 40 weight percent bound styrene.
Abstract:
The innerliner ply of a tire has been modified in thickness to provide a profiled innerliner ply. A permeability relationship is established for the material of the innerliner that allows the average thickness of the innerliner ply to be adjusted based on its temperature. The maximum and minimum thickness are located in relation to the maximum and minimum internal temperature locations within the tire. A gradual change in thickness is used between the maximum and minimum thickness locations. An object of the invention is to limit the air flow through the tire in locations which have a high internal temperature. This limited air flow will improve the deterioration of rubber products in the tire and maintain an allowable inflation pressure air loss rate.
Abstract:
A radial ply tire for heavy duty vehicles improved in bead durability, which has a bead reinforcing cord layer having an axially inner portion extending along the inside of the carcass main portion, and an inner liner disposed on the inside of the carcass main portion and the inside of the inner portion of the bead reinforcing layer, whereinthe inner liner is provided with a middle portion of which thickness is gradually decreased radially outwardly,the heights of the lower end and upper end of the middle portion are respectively not smaller than 1.2 and 1.4 times the height of the upper edge of the axially inner portion of the reinforcing layer,the difference in thickness between the upper and lower ends of the middle portion is between 0.5 and 1.0 times the thickness at the upper end of the middle portion, andthe thickness at 90% of the height of the upper edge of the axially inner portion of the reinforcing layer is between 0.9 and 1.2 times the thickness at the upper end of the middle portion.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire is disclosed, which comprises a carcass composed of at least one ply and an inner liner arranged inside the carcass and composed of plural rubber layers. In the tire of this type, the inner liner comprises at least three layers of an outermost layer adjacent to the carcass, an innermost layer facing the inner space of the tire and an intermediate layer interposed between the innermost and outermost layers. The innermost layer is composed of a rubber composition containing 15-60 parts by weight of natural rubber and the balance of a halogenated butyl polymer as a rubber component, while the intermediate layer is composed of a rubber composition containing only a halogenated butyl polymer as a rubber component, which is different from that of the outermost layer in the rubber component.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a pneumatic tire comprising a carcass composed of at least one cord ply extending between a pair of bead portions, an inner liner adhered to the inner surface of the carcass, and a rubber reinforcing layer made of a rubber composition different from and having a Shore A hardness higher than that of the inner liner and disposed at a lower part of the bead portion including a bead toe portion and a bead heel portion to form an outermost bead rubber at least at that region of the bead portion which comes into contact with a rim. In the tire, the rubber reinforcing layer is divided into an axially inside portion inclusive of the bead toe portion and an axially outside portion at a boundary surface located in an area between the bead toe portion and a position corresponding to 1/2 of a height of a rim flange, and the axially outside portion is extended over the height of the rim flange outwardly in the radial direction of the tire, and rubber of the axially inside portion is small in the Shore A hardness and abrasion resistance index and high in the breaking energy after heat deterioration as compared with that of the axially outside portion.
Abstract:
A pneumatic rubber tire having an integral innerliner comprising a compounded rubber composition comprised of a sulfur cured blend of a halobutyl rubber and an unsaturated copolymer of propylene oxide and copolymerizable monomer.
Abstract:
A pneutmatic radial-ply tire in which the rubber portion of at least one of a carcass ply and an undertread constituting the tire is made of a rubber which has a viscoelastic property of loss tangent, tan.delta., of 0.2 or lower (tan.delta..ltoreq.0.2) and storage modulus, G, of 120 Kg/cm.sup.2 or higher (G.gtoreq.120 kg/cm.sup.2), so that the rolling resistance of the tire is reduced without being accompanied by degradation of braking performance, control stability, comfortableness and wear resistance of the tire.
Abstract translation:一种球状径向帘布层轮胎,其中胎体帘布层和构成轮胎的胎圈中的至少一个的橡胶部分由橡胶制成,该橡胶具有0.2或更低的损耗角正切tanδ(tanδ)的粘弹性, /0.2),储能模量G为120Kg / cm 2以上(G> / = 120kg / cm 2),轮胎的滚动阻力降低而不伴随制动性能的降低,控制稳定性, 轮胎的舒适性和耐磨性。