Heavy-duty pneumatic tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorYoshiki Kanaya
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Abstract
A heavy-duty pneumatic tire includes a section width being equal to or less than 335 mm, an aspect ratio being equal to or less than 55%, and a toroidal carcass extending between axially spaced bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions, wherein the carcass includes a carcass ply which includes a main portion and a turn-up portion, a belt layer disposed radially outward of the carcass in the tread portion, a sidewall rubber defining an outer sidewall profile of each sidewall portion, and a chafer rubber defining an outer bead profile of each bead portion, wherein in each bead portion, on a straight line that is perpendicular to the main portion of the carcass ply and passes a radially inner end of the sidewall rubber, the chafer rubber has a thickness of from 40% to 60% of a thickness of the bead portion.
Claims15
A heavy-duty pneumatic tire comprising:
- a section width being equal to or less than 335 mm;
- an aspect ratio being equal to or less than 55%;
- a toroidal carcass extending between axially spaced bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions, wherein the carcass comprises a carcass ply comprising a main portion extending between bead cores each disposed in a respective one of the bead portions through the tread portion and the sidewall portions, and a turn-up portion turned up around each bead core of each bead portion from axially inside of the tire to outside of the tire and extending to a radially outer end thereof;
- a belt layer disposed radially outward of the carcass in the tread portion, wherein the radially outer end of the turn-up portion is located between the main portion and the belt layer in the tread portion, wherein
- the belt layer comprises first, second, third and fourth belt plies superimposed in this order from radially inside of the tire,
- the second belt ply comprises an axially outer edge that is located axially outwardly of an axially outer edge of the first belt ply, in a tire half cross-section with respect to a tire equator;
- a sidewall rubber defining an outer sidewall profile of each sidewall portion, the sidewall rubber having complex modulus E*4 of from 3.0 to 5.5 MPa;
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- a chafer rubber defining an outer bead profile of each bead portion, wherein in each bead portion, on a straight line that is perpendicular to the main portion of the carcass ply and passes a radially inner end of the sidewall rubber, the chafer rubber has a thickness of from 40% to 60% of a thickness of the bead portion, wherein
- in the tire half cross-section, the radially outer end of the turn-up portion of the carcass ply, in the tire axial direction, is located between the axially outer edges of the first belt ply and the second belt ply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.