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US 11,613,144 B2Granted
Pneumatic tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorTakeshi Tsubota
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Abstract
Provided is a pneumatic tire having both improved run-flat durability and excellent wet grip properties; the pneumatic tire including a rubber composition used in a tread part, and a rubber support layer having a gauge thickness in a specified range; the rubber composition including specified compounded amounts of natural rubber, a terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber, silica, and a thermoplastic resin, wherein the rubber composition is largely strain-dependent for the storage elastic modulus.
Claims18
A pneumatic tire comprising:
- a carcass as a skeleton, the carcass formed of one or more carcass plies extending in a toroidal shape across a pair of bead parts;
- one or more belt layers disposed on the outer side in the tire radial direction of a crown part of the carcass;
- a tread part forming a tread surface part disposed on the outer side in the tire radial direction of the belt layer;
- a pair of sidewall parts on the left and right sides of the tread part and the outer side in the tire width direction;
- and
- a rubber support layer disposed on the sidewall part;
- wherein a rubber composition for the tread part comprises:
- a rubber component (A), a thermoplastic resin (B), and a reinforcing filler (C);
- the rubber component (A) comprises 50% by mass or more of natural rubber:
- NR based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component;
- and
- the rubber support layer has a gauge thickness of 4 to 15 mm;
- and E′(1%, 30° C.)-E′(4%, 30° C.)≤1.5 MPa, wherein a dynamic storage elastic modulus E′ of the tread part at 30° C. and at 1% dynamic strain is E′(1%, 30° C.), and a dynamic storage elastic modulus E′ of the tread part at 30° C. and at 4% dynamic strain is E′(4%, 30° C.).
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