Non-pneumatic tire

• US 8,113,253 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2009
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TOYO Tire & Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TOYO Tire & Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Arakawa, Koji, Iwase, Masanori, Segawa, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): BELLINGER, JASON R
• Application Number:
  US12/624,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20100132858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 812 Days
• Field of Search: 152/5, 152/7, 152/246, 152/40, 152/11, 152300-301, 152323-329, 152/12, 152/17, 152/20, 152 41- 44, 152/47, 152/49, 152/80, 152/1, 152/270, 152/275, 152/315, 152/258, 301/5.301, 301/5.304, 301/5.308, 492/42
• US Class Current: 152/246
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 9/10 of rubber or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10297 Annular

Abstract

The invention provides a non-pneumatic tire which can improve a riding quality, a noise performance and the like while improving a durability, and can further sufficiently suppress a buckling of a ground portion between spokes, because a circumferential fluctuation of a tire rigidity is hard to be generated due to a positional relationship between a spoke position and a center position of the ground surface, and a strain can be dispersed into each of portions of a support structure body. In a non-pneumatic tire T comprising a support structure body SS supporting a load from a vehicle, the support structure body SS includes an inner annular portion 1, an intermediate annular portion 2 concentrically provided in an outer side of the inner annular portion 1, an outer annular portion 3 concentrically provided in an outer side of the intermediate annular portion 2, a plurality of inner coupling portions 4 coupling the inner annular portion 1 and the intermediate annular portion 2, and a plurality of outer coupling portions 5 coupling the outer annular portion 3 and the intermediate annular portion 2, and the number of the outer coupling portions 5 is larger than the number of the inner coupling portions 4.

Claims

1. A non-pneumatic tire comprising:

a support structure body supporting a load from a vehicle, wherein the support structure body includes;

an inner annular portion, an intermediate annular portion concentrically provided in an outer side of the inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided in an outer side of the intermediate annular portion, a plurality of inner coupling portions coupling the inner annular portion and the intermediate annular portion, and a plurality of outer coupling portions coupling the outer annular portion and the intermediate annular portion, and

wherein the number of the outer coupling portions is larger than the number of the inner coupling portions.

2. The non-pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the outer coupling portion is inclined with respect to a tire diametrical direction.

3. The non-pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein two of the outer coupling portions are inclined in a direction which is symmetrical with respect to a tire diametrical direction, the two outer coupling portions and one of the inner couplings portions being arranged in a Y-shaped form as seen from a tire axial direction.

4. The non-pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the outer coupling portion is less than a thickness of the inner coupling portion.

5. The non-pneumatic tire according to claim 3, wherein a gap is provided between an outer coupling point at which one of the two outer coupling portions and the intermediate annular portion are coupled, and an outer coupling point at which the other of the two outer coupling portions and the intermediate annular portion are coupled.

6. The non-pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein an angle of the outer coupling portion with respect to the tire diametrical direction is not more than 30°

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