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US 10,450,443 B2Granted
Tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Fudemoto, Takashi Harada
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Abstract
A tire including a circular tire frame formed of a resin material that includes a thermoplastic resin and fibers.
Claims4
A tire, comprising a circular tire frame formed of a resin material that includes a thermoplastic resin and fibers,
- wherein the content of the fibers in the resin material is from 1% by mass to 10% by mass with respect to the total mass of the resin material, and the fibers have a length (L) of from 5 mm to 10 mm and a diameter (D) of from 7 μm to 30 μm;
- wherein the tire is a pneumatic tire and the tire frame has a pair of bead portions removably contacting a pair of bead seats and a pair of rim flanges when the tire is fitted to a wheel rim, a pair of side portions respectively extending radially outwardly from the bead portions, and a crown portion connecting together the radially outer ends of the pair of side portions, and
- wherein the fibers are aliphatic polyamide fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.