Abstract:
Tyre for a wheel of a vehicle, with a profiled tread for supporting the vehicle on the ground, provided with an adjustment device for adjusting a tread pattern height of the profiled tread. Method for at least partly replacing a profiled tread of such a tyre.
Abstract:
A method of making a tire includes placing substantially circular sheets of polymeric material on top of each other until a tire is built to a predetermined width. A predetermined tread shape is formed along a circumference of the substantially circular sheets of polymeric material.
Abstract:
Present disclosure provides a tread for a tire having a plurality of contact element having a height H, and at least one connecting member connecting a transverse face of the contact element to the transverse face of the circumferentially adjacent contact element extending continuously through two transverse faces of the same contact element, a distance h between one of the connecting member in a groove and a radial position of the contact face being at most equal to 50% of the height H, and a material of the connecting member being different from a material of the contact element, a young modulus of the material of the connecting member being higher than that of the contact element, a distance h′ between one of the connecting member in the contact element and the contact face in tire radial direction is greater than the distance h of the same connecting member.
Abstract:
A tread made of rubber-like material for a tire for winter travel having a plurality of blocks of a height H, each block comprising a contact face designed to come into contact with the ground when the tire travels and at least one lateral face, said lateral face being covered by a layer of covering material over at least 50% of the surface thereof, and a leading zone designed to come into contact first with the ground when the tire travels, and said block has an oblique direction of extension (J) such that the leading zone of said block is a leading corner, and a part which is not covered by the covering material, said covering material having a modulus of elasticity which is greater than the modulus of elasticity of the rubber-like material forming the block, said uncovered part extending from the leading corner over at least ⅓ of the height H of the block.
Abstract:
Noise-reducing device intended to be added to a groove of the tread of a tire comprising an elastic sole preferably extending in a given longitudinal direction, wherein the said sole on one of its faces comprises one or several flexible walls the planes of which run substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the sole.
Abstract:
A vehicle tire includes a selectively actuated stud deployment system for increased traction. The studs are contained in cells in the surface of the tire and forced to deploy by pneumatic or fluid pressure. When the pressure is released, the studs retract.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a rubber composition capable of sustaining improved on-ice performance of a tire over a long period of time. Specifically, the present invention provides a rubber composition having a rubber component (A) and a composite fiber (B), wherein the composite fiber (B) comprises: a fiber (B1) made of a hydrophilic resin; a covering layer (B2) made of a resin having an affinity for a rubber component and provided to cover at least a portion of the fiber; and a bonding layer (B3) present at least in a portion of an interface between the fiber (B1) and the covering layer (B2) and having affinities for both the hydrophilic resin and the resin having an affinity for the rubber component.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern, wherein a tread half which is one half of the tread pattern on each side of the tire equator is made up of repeat design units arranged circumferentially of the tire. The repeat design units have at least two different circumferential pitch lengths, and the repeat design units are each provided with at least one stud hole.
Abstract:
Stud (30) for a tire (10), the tire comprising a tread (20) made of rubber mix, the stud having an axis (A-A) and two axial ends and comprising: a first part (60) configured to come into contact with the ground when the stud is fitted to the tire and the tire is rolling along the ground, this first part being positioned at one of the axial ends of the stud; a head (70) configured to anchor the stud into the tread of the tire, the head being positioned at the other axial end of the stud; and a body (80) connecting the said first part and the head of the stud, the mean diameter of the body being smaller than the mean diameter of the head of the stud, these diameters being measured at right angles to the axis of the stud; in which the head comprises at least one recess (100) opening onto the surface of the head, the recess being configured to be filled with rubber mix of the tread so as to provide additional anchorage for the stud in the tread.
Abstract:
Device for embedding a thread in a rubber profiled element comprising: a continuous thread feeder arranged on a structure, a moving support able to run along the structure between a raised and a lowered position. A hollow needle, comprising a canal in which the thread runs is fixed by one of its ends to the base of the moving support in the duct, and a tip at its other end capable of penetrating the rubber profiled element, a cutter arranged on the structure, comprising a rotary blade able to cut off the thread at a given distance from the tip of the needle upon each cycle of reciprocating movement of the needle. The cutter comprises a paddle arranged behind the cutting wire of the blade and intended to fold the tail around the tip of the needle just after the thread has been cut by the blade.