Tire for heavy industrial vehicle
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsEmmanuel Clement, Alain Domingo, Olivier Sejalon
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Abstract
A tire includes a tread and a crown reinforcement arranged radially internal to the tread. The crown reinforcement includes a protective reinforcement and a working reinforcement. The protective reinforcement includes a protective ply that exhibits a force at break greater than or equal to 1300 daN·cm−1. The protective ply includes protective reinforcing elements, each of which exhibits a force at break greater than or equal to 3000 N. The working reinforcement is arranged radially internal to the protective reinforcement and includes a working ply. The working ply includes working reinforcing elements, each of which includes a working cord formed of at least a strand that includes an external layer of unsaturated threads.
Claims20
A tire comprising:
- a tread;
- and
- a crown reinforcement arranged radially internal to the tread, the crown reinforcement including:
- (a) a protective reinforcement that includes at least one protective ply, wherein each of the at least one protective ply exhibits a force at break (Fm) greater than or equal to 1400 daN·cm−1, wherein each of the at least one protective ply includes protective reinforcing elements, wherein each of the protective reinforcing elements exhibits a force at break (Fr) greater than or equal to 3000 N and comprises (1) an internal layer comprising a plurality of internal strands and (2) an external layer comprising a plurality of external strands, the external strands being wrapped helically around the internal layer, and wherein each internal strand comprises (i) an internal layer comprising a plurality of internal threads and (ii) an external layer comprising a plurality of external threads, and
- (b) a working reinforcement that includes at least one working ply, the working reinforcement being arranged radially internal to the protective reinforcement, wherein each of the at least one working ply includes working reinforcing elements, wherein each of the working reinforcing elements includes a working cord that includes at least one strand, wherein each of the at least one strand has a total of two layers of threads, the two layers of threads being (i) an internal layer of threads and (ii) an external layer of threads wrapped helically around the internal layer of threads, wherein the external layer of threads is unsaturated and an inter-thread distance between threads of the external layer of threads is greater than or equal to 40 μm,
- wherein the protective reinforcing elements make an angle at least equal to 10° with a circumferential direction of the tire,
- wherein the protective reinforcement is interposed radially between the tread and the working reinforcement,
- wherein the inter-thread distance is greater than or equal to 50 μm,
- wherein in the at least one strand, threads of the internal layer of threads and threads of the external layer of threads are wrapped in the same wrapping direction,
- wherein the at least one protective ply has a different construction from the at least one working ply,
- wherein in the at least one strand, the number of threads of the external layer of threads is equal to 7,
- wherein in the at least one strand, diameters of the threads of the internal layer of threads and of the threads of the external layer of threads are the same,
- wherein the at least one strand comprises a plurality of strands, and
- wherein the plurality of strands comprises one or more internal strands and a plurality of external strands wrapped helically around a layer comprising the one or more internal strands, a pitch of the threads of the internal layer of threads of each of the plurality of external strands being different from a pitch of the threads of the internal layer of threads of each of the one or more internal strands, and a pitch of the threads of the external layer of threads of each of the plurality of external strands being different from a pitch of the threads of the external layer of threads of each of the one or more internal strands.
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