Stud tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsKeisuke Maejima, Satoshi Mihara
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Abstract
A studded tire includes stud pins embedded in a road contact surface of a tread portion 1; the rubber composition forming the tread portion containing at least one of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, and butadiene rubber, from 5 to 50 parts by weight of carbon black and from 5 to 70 parts by weight of silica per 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber; a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of the carbon black being from 50 to 120 m2/g; a CTAB specific surface area of the silica being from 80 to 190 m2/g; a rubber hardness of the rubber composition being not greater than 60; and a product of a stress at the time of 400% elongation and a bottom surface area of a flange portion on a bottom side of the stud pins being not less than 400 MPa·mm2 and not greater than 850 MPa·mm2.
Claims4
A studded tire having stud pins embedded in a road contact surface of a tread portion formed from only a rubber composition;
- the rubber composition comprising a diene rubber containing at least one rubber selected from natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, and butadiene rubber, from 5 to 50 parts by weight of carbon black and a compounded amount of silica of from 5 to 70 parts by weight of silica per 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber;
- a glass transition temperature of the diene rubber being not higher than −60° C.;
- a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of the carbon black being from 50 to 120 m2/g;
- a CTAB specific surface area of the silica being from 80 to 190 m2/g;
- a rubber hardness of the rubber composition being not greater than 60;
- and a product (S×A) of a stress S (MPa) of the rubber composition at the time of 400% elongation and a bottom surface area A (mm2) of a flange portion on a bottom side of the stud pins being not less than 476 and not greater than 850, and
- wherein a pull-out force required to pull out the stud pins from the tread portion rubber composition is not less than 170 N.
A studded tire having stud pins embedded in a road contact surface of a tread portion formed from a only a rubber composition;
- the rubber composition comprising:
- a diene rubber containing at least one rubber selected from natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, and butadiene rubber, from 5 to 50 parts by weight of carbon black and a compounded amount of silica of from 5 to 70 parts by weight of silica per 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber;
- a glass transition temperature of the diene rubber being not higher than −60° C.;
- a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of the carbon black being from 50 to 120 m2/g;
- a CTAB specific surface area of the silica being from 80 to 190 m2/g;
- a rubber hardness of the rubber composition being not greater than 60;
- and a silane coupling agent in an amount from 3 to 15 wt % based on the compounded amount of the silica, and
- a product (S×A) of a stress S (MPa) of the rubber composition at the time of 400% elongation and a bottom surface area A (mm2) of a flange portion on a bottom side of the stud pins being not less than 476 and not greater than 850;
- and the tread portion of only the rubber composition has a pull-out force required to pull out the stud pins of from 200 to 500 N.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.