High speed heavy duty tire including bead part with side packing rubber

• US 5,160,384 A
• Filed: 12/21/1990
• Issued: 11/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Inventors: Hoshino, Hiroshi, Ueyoko, Kiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ball, Michael W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Johnstone, Adrienne C.
• Application Number:
  US07/632,006
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 152/454, 152/547, 152/555, 152/543, 152/539, 152/525, 152/546
• US Class Current: 152/454
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 15/06 Flipper strips, fillers, or chafing strips and reinforcing layers for the construction of the bead
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 2200/02 for aircrafts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10828 Chafer or sealing strips
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10837 Bead characterized by the radial extent of apex, flipper or chafer into tire sidewall
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10846 Bead characterized by the chemical composition and or physical properties of elastomers or the like

Abstract

A high speed tire for heavy duty vehicles includes a carcass in a radial structure, a belt layer, tapered bead apex rubbers, side packing rubbers of small thickness, and side wall rubbers. The carcass has a main body part extending from a tread part through side wall parts to a bead core in each of two bead parts, and folding-back parts each being folded back around the bear core at each edge of the main body. Each of the bead apex rubbers extends outward in the radial direction between the main body part and the folding-back part from the bead core. Each of the side packing rubbers is disposed along the outside surface in the tire axial direction of the carcass. Each of the side wall rubbers covers the packing rubber and extends from the bead part to the side wall part so as to form the outside surface of the tire. Furthermore, the 100% modulus MP of the side packing rubber is 53 to 95 kg/cm², the 100% modulus MA of the bead apex rubber is 78 to 120 kg/cm², the 100% modulus MS of the side wall rubber is 14 to 50 kg/cm.sup. 2, and these 100% modulus MP, MA, MS are in the relation of MS<MP<MA.

Claims

1. A high speed tire for heavy duty vehicles comprising:

a carcass in a radial structure composed of a plurality of inner plies and a plurality of outer plies, each of said plurality of inner plies having a main body part extending from a tread part through side wall parts to a bead core in each of two bead parts, and a folding-back part folded back at each edge of the main body part around the bead core from axially inside to outside, said outer plies having a wrapping part enclosing the folding-back part around the bead core from axially outside to inside at each edge of a main body extending from the tread part through the side wall parts to the bead core;

a belt layer disposed outside of the carcass in the tire radial direction;

tapered bead apex rubbers each extending from the bead core outward in the radial direction between the main body part and the folding-back part;

side packing rubbers of small thickness each extending radially outwardly along the outside surface of the main body, each side packing rubber terminating on the outer side of the bead core at an upper end of a reinforcement filler extending on the bottom surface of the wrapping part; and

side wall rubbers each covering a packing rubber and extending from the bead part to the side wall part so as to form the outside surface of the tire;

wherein

the 100% modulus MP of the side packing rubber is 53-95 kg/sq.cm,

the 100% modulus MA of the bead apex rubber is 78-120 kg/sq.cm,

the 100% modulus MS of the side wall rubber is 14-50 kg/sq.cm, and

the 100% modulus MP, MA, MS are in the relation of MS<

MP<

MA.

2. A high speed heavy duty tire-rim assembly including the high speed tire for heavy duty vehicles according to claim 1, wherein the height HP of the side packing rubber in the radial direction from a bead bottom line to the upper end thereof is greater than the height HA of the bead apex rubber from the bead bottom line to the upper end thereof and smaller than 1/2 of a tire sectional height H, and the height HA of the bead apex rubber is greater than a rim flange height HR from the bead bottom line to the upper end thereof.