Abstract:
A tread for a pneumatic tyre includes tread pattern elements and cuts. Each tread pattern element includes lateral faces and a contact face that comes into contact with a road surface when the tyre is being driven thereon. A boundary between the contact face and the lateral faces forms at least one edge corner. The cuts are formed as grooves and/or sipes, with the cuts being delimited by opposing lateral faces of the treat pattern elements. Each tread pattern element is formed of at least one rubber compound. When the tread is viewed in cross section in a plane normal to an axis of rotation of the tyre and passing through a contact face of a tread pattern element, at least one of the cuts adjacent to that contact face is covered at least in part with a covering layer that contains a woven or nonwoven fibre assembly.
Abstract:
Method of determining the longitudinal pitch of blocks of a tread band having a raised pattern with a number of longitudinal grooves and transverse grooves; the method including the step of calculating a best longitudinal pitch of the blocks, to minimize pass-by noise at a given target speed, as a function of the resonance frequency of the longitudinal grooves and an integer greater than zero.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a rubber composition comprising at least one rubber component, between about 50 phr and about 120 phr of a filler, wherein at least 20 phr of the filler is a high surface area carbon black. Further, the composition comprises between 10 phr and 30 phr of a phenolic resin. The present invention is further directed to a tire tread or a tire comprising such a composition.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide a surface modification method for a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer, which can impart various functions such as sliding properties and biocompatibility according to its use. The present invention relates to a surface modification method for modifying a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer as an object to be modified, the method including: Step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points on a surface of the object to be modified; Step 2 of radical polymerizing monomers starting from the polymerization initiation points to grow polymer chains on the surface of the object to be modified; and Step 3 of functionalizing the polymer chains.
Abstract:
Tread for a tyre, made of a rubber material with a shore A hardness of at least 65, this tread being provided with at least one groove of circumferential overall direction, this tread comprising a plurality of closure membranes formed in at least one groove of circumferential overall direction, each closure membrane, of a mean thickness of at most 2 mm, closing a groove over at least 50% of the cross section of the said groove, each closure membrane being able to flex as liquid flows, the closure membranes furthermore being formed of a material with a shore A hardness of at most 62, this shore A hardness being lower than the shore A hardness of the tread.
Abstract:
A tire tread comprising a plurality of elements in relief (1) comprising a contact face (2) intended to come into contact with the roadway during travel and lateral faces (13, 14, 15, 16), the intersection of each lateral face with the contact face forming a ridge (23, 24, 25, 26). The tread also comprises a plurality of cutouts (3, 4) in the form of grooves and/or incisions, said cutouts being defined by facing main faces. Each tread pattern element (1) is formed with at least one rubber mix (referred to as “base mix”). This tread, viewed in section in a plane containing the thickness of this tread, has at least one face defining at least one cutout covered at least in part with a second rubber mix, referred to as “covering mix”, this part having covering mix extending when new over a height Hr at least equal to 30% of the height H of the face, wherein at least one first base mix opens on to the contact face (2) when new or at the latest after wear at most equal to 10% of the height Hr. The base mix has an amount of carbon black greater than 2 phr of black and the covering mix has an amount of carbon black greater than 0 phr and at most equal to 2 phr.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a tire having a rubber tread of a lug and groove configuration wherein at least a portion of surface of the grooves is comprised of an elastomeric layer having a repellent property.
Abstract:
A tire tread comprising a plurality of elements in relief (1) comprising a contact face (2) intended to come into contact with the roadway during travel and lateral faces (13, 14, 15, 16), the intersection of each lateral face with the contact face forming a ridge (23, 24, 25, 26). The tread also comprises a plurality of cutouts (3, 4) in the form of grooves and/or incisions, said cutouts being defined by facing main faces. Each tread pattern element (1) is formed with at least one rubber mix (referred to as “base mix”). This tread, viewed in section in a plane containing the thickness of this tread, has at least one face defining at least one cutout covered at least in part with a second rubber mix, referred to as “covering mix”, this part having covering mix extending when new over a height Hr at least equal to 30% of the height H of the face, wherein at least one first base mix opens on to the contact face (2) when new or at the latest after wear at most equal to 10% of the height Hr. The base mix has an amount of carbon black greater than 2 phr of black and the covering mix has an amount of carbon black greater than 0 phr and at most equal to 2 phr.
Abstract:
A tire includes a tread rubber layer, a conductive layer located beneath the tread rubber layer and a reinforcement layer located at side periphery of the tread rubber layer and the conductive layer. Tread grooves are defined in a top surface of the tread tuber layer and a protection protrusion extends along each top edge of the tread grooves and protrudes beyond the top surface of the tread rubber layer. The conductive layer has at least one discharge terminal which is connected to an inner periphery of the tread groove. The at leas tone discharge terminal is exposed after the protection protrusions are worn out.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for anti-ozone protection of at least a part of the outer surface of a vulcanized tire, where the composition of the tire is based on essentially unsaturated dienic elastomers. The present method comprises: (1) subjecting the surface of the vulcanized tire to a treatment in order to polarize and functionalize the elastomers of the surface; (2) applying at least one layer comprising an aqueous polyurethane dispersion to this treated surface; and (3) allowing this layer to dry until a protective coating is formed. The present invention further relates to a tire comprising an anti-ozone protective coating, where the protective coating is formed according to the method described above.