IC TAG, PNEUMATIC TIRE FITTED WITH THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FITTING IC TAG

• US 20100032066A1
• Filed: 12/03/2007
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation, Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation, Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Inventors: Kijima, Masaru, Kawai, Wakahiro, Nakao, Yukio
• Granted Patent: US 8,092,633 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 152/152.100
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0072 Attaching fasteners to tyres, e.g. patches, in order to connect devices to tyres
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0077 Directly attaching monitoring devices to tyres before or after vulcanization, e.g. microchips
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 13/00 Tyre sidewalls; Protecting, decorating, marking, or the like, thereof B60C17/08 takes precedence; tyre shoulders B60C11/01; removable tyre sidewall trim rings B60B7/01
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0493 for attachment on the tyre

Abstract

Deadhesion of an IC tag inlet during vulcanization molding of tire is suppressed, while preventing adhesion of a portion other than a sticking out portion. An IC tag comprises a sheet-like IC tag inlet 2, a protective cover 3 of an unvulcanized rubber sheet adhered to the surface Sf of the inlet 2 through a primer layer 10 and an adhesive layer 11, and an antiadhesive layer 4 formed on the rear surface Sr of the inlet 2, wherein a maximum value Ga′max of storage shear modulus Ga′ of a rubber of the protective cover 3 at a temperature of 150 to 200° C. and a storage shear modulus Gb′0 of the primer layer 10 at a temperature T0 showing the maximum value Ga′max satisfy the following equation: Ga′max×10⁻²<Gb′0.

Claims

1. An IC tag including a sheet-like IC tag inlet mounted with an IC chip and an antenna, a protective cover which is made of an unvulcanized rubber sheet adhered to the front surface of said IC tag inlet through a primer layer and an adhesive layer and which has a sticking out portion which runs out from a part of the periphery of said IC tag inlet, and an antiadhesive layer formed on the rear surface of said IC tag inlet for preventing vulcanization adhesion between the rear surface and a rubber, wherein said primer layer satisfies the following equation (1):

Ga′

max×

10<sup>−

2</sup><

Gb′

0 

 

(1)

wherein Ga′

max is a maximum value of storage shear modulus Ga′

of a rubber of said protective cover within the temperature range of 150 to 200°

C., and Gb′

0 is a storage shear modulus of said primer layer at a temperature T0 showing said maximum value Ga′

max.

2. The IC tag of claim 1, wherein said IC tag inlet and said protective cover are in a rectangular form that the periphery is surrounded by four sides, said protective cover has, on a side of one of the four sides, said sticking out portion which runs out from one side of said IC tag inlet by a distance K of at least 1.0 mm, and each of the remaining three sides of said protective cover is located inside of each of the remaining three sides of said IC tag inlet by a distance L of at least 0.5 mm.

3. A pneumatic tire having the IC tag of claim 1 or 2 fitted to the tire inner surface, in which said sticking out portion of said protective cover is adhered to the tire inner surface.

4. A method for fitting the IC tag of claim 1 or 2 to an inner surface of a pneumatic tire, in which said sticking out portion of said protective cover is adhered by tacky adhesion to an inner surface of an unvulcanized green tire to temporarily attach said IC tag, and said green tire is subjected to vulcanization molding in a mold to perform vulcanization adhesion of only said sticking out portion to the tire inner surface by vulcanization heat and vulcanization pressure.