Abstract:
Tire including: a tread; a pair of sidewalls extending substantially inward radially from ends of the tread; a pair of beads positioned substantially radially inwardly of the sidewalls; and a clinch portion extending from the sidewalls to the beads. A concave curved surface extends on an outer surface of the clinch portion in a circumferential direction. A convex curved surface formed on a radially outer side end of a rim flange is engageable with the concave curved surface. A ratio R1/R of curvature radius R1 of the concave curved surface to a curvature radius R of the convex curved surface of the rim flange satisfies 1.7≤R1/R≤2.5. The curvature radii R1 and R of the concave and convex curved surfaces, respectively, are each a radius of curvature of an arc on a cross-section taken along a plane including a tire center axis.
Abstract:
Tires for vehicle wheels having reduced environmental impact and the components thereof, in particular reinforcing structural elements such as carcass structures, belt structures, flippers and chafers, include elongated reinforcing elements treated with resorcinol and formaldehyde-free cross-linkable adhesive compositions. The adhesive compositions include at least a) a rubber latex, at least b) an epoxide and at least c) a polyamine with molecular weight higher than 190 Daltons, including at least two amino groups selected from primary —NH2 and secondary —NH— amino groups. In the structural element, these compositions confer an adhesion between cords and compounds that is comparable to, if not better than, the traditional RFL system in use in this sector. Furthermore, by suitably modifying the compound compositions in the reinforced structural elements and, possibly, also in the other elastomeric components of the tire, it is possible to manufacture tires while avoiding the use of toxic chemicals, such, as resorcinol and formaldehyde.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide a rubber composition for a clinch or chafer which enables to improve the rim chafing resistance, elongation at break, handling stability, and fuel economy in a balanced manner, and to reduce the number of broken spews in tire demolding; and a pneumatic tire produced using the rubber composition. The rubber composition for a clinch or chafer includes 100 parts by mass of a rubber component; 1.2 to 2.9 parts by mass of zinc oxide; and 2.2 to 4.0 parts by mass of stearic acid, the rubber component including 15 to 80% by mass of a butadiene rubber and 15 to 50% by mass of an isoprene-based rubber based on 100% by mass of the rubber component.
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 according to the invention includes: a pair of left and right beads 3 each including a bead cores 3a and bead fillers 3b; a carcass ply 5 extended around the bead cores 3a; and an inner liner 4 arranged on an inner peripheral side of the carcass ply 5, and is characterized in that the carcass ply 5 is wound up around the bead cores 3a from the outside in the direction of width of tire to the inside in the direction of width of tire, and a distortion restraining layer 7 configured to restrain distortion of the winding ends 5a of the carcass ply 5 is provided between the bead fillers 3b and the carcass ply 5 so as to overlap with a wind-up ends 5a of the carcass ply 5.
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.
Abstract:
Provided are a rubber composition for a canvas chafer which, despite being low cost, is excellent in rim chafing resistance, resistance to rim damage, and processability (sheeting processability, rubber flow in the tire, adhesion to adjacent components) and performs well with respect to low heat build-up, and a pneumatic tire including the composition. The invention relates to a rubber composition for a canvas chafer, including: an isoprene-based rubber; a carbon black having an N2SA of 65-200 m2/g; and sulfur, wherein an amount of the isoprene-based rubber is 25-80% by mass and an amount of butadiene rubber is not more than 40% by mass, each based on 100% by mass of a rubber component of the rubber composition, and an amount of the carbon black is 40-80 parts by mass and an amount of the sulfur is 1.0-2.7 parts by mass, each per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a tire having improved durability of a bead portion. Specifically, the present invention provides a tire having: at least one layer of carcass, including a carcass main body extending in a toroidal shape across a pair of bead cores and a carcass turn-up portion continuous with the carcass main body and wound around each bead core from the inner side toward the outer side in the tire widthwise direction and; at least two layers of textile chafer disposed on the tire-radial direction inner surface of the carcass with respect to the bead core; and at least one layer of wire chafer, characterized in that: in a state where the tire is assembled with a “design rim” prescribed in TRA and inflated at an inner pressure of 50 kPa and, providing that the center of a flange curvature of the rim is P and the outer most end in the tire radial direction of a portion covering the carcass main body, of the textile chafer, is A, an angle θ formed by a line passing P and in parallel with the tire rotation axis, with respect to a line linking P and A, is in a range of 20°≦θ≦60°.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having a pair of spaced apart bead components, a connecting carcass between the bead components, a pair of sidewalls overlying the carcass, and a rubber chafer adjacent to each of the sidewalls and positioned around at least a portion of each of the bead components and intended for contacting a rigid rim of a wheel, wherein the chafers comprise 100 parts by weight of elastomer; 20 to 60 phr of a low surface area carbon black having an Iodine absorption value in a range of from about 10 to about 50 as measured by ASTM D1510; 20 to 60 phr of a high surface area carbon black having an Iodine absorption value in a range of from about 100 to about 300 g/kg as measured by ASTM D1510; wherein the sidewalls comprise 100 phr of the same elastomer used in the chafers; 20 to 60 phr of the same low surface area carbon black used in the chafers; 10 to 20 phr of the same high surface area carbon black used in the chafers; wherein the weight ratio of high surface area carbon black in the chafer to high surface area carbon black in the sidewall is greater than 1.