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US 11,655,586 B2Granted
Cable for a tire
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsFanny Layec, Rèmi Pinaut, Marie Chassagne, Laurent Bucher
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Abstract
A cable as may be used in a tire, including a pneumatic tire. The cable is constructed in a manner that can provide a desired stiffness to a tire as well as a certain amount of structural elongation. The cable can be provided in a manner that does not necessarily result in an increase in the overall weight of the tire as would occur by e.g., increasing the diameter of a conventional cable construction.
Claims13
A cable, comprising:
- a plurality of strands twisted together at a cable pitch in the range of 5 mm to 7 mm,
- each strand comprising a plurality of filaments twisted together at a strand pitch SP in the range of 2.9 mm≤ SP ≤5.9 mm, the plurality of filaments of each strand comprising
- a single, central filament having a central filament diameter, and
- a plurality of outer filaments wrapped around the central filament, each outer filament having an outer filament diameter, wherein the central filament diameter is greater than the outer filament diameter of each outer filament, and wherein adjacent outer filaments are in contact with each other along the length of the cable;
- wherein a pitch ratio of the cable pitch CP to the strand pitch SP is in the range of 1.2≤ pitch ratio ≤1.7,
- wherein the cable has a structural elongation of between 2.1 percent and 3 percent.
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A tire, comprising:
- opposing bead portions;
- a carcass extending between the opposing bead portions and through a crown portion of the tire;
- a belt comprising a cable forming an angle θ from an equatorial plane of the tire, wherein θ is in the range of zero to 10 degrees, the cable comprising
- a plurality of strands twisted together at a cable pitch in the range of 5 mm to 7 mm,
- each strand comprising a plurality of filaments twisted together at a strand pitch in the range of 2.9 mm to 5.9 mm,
- wherein a pitch ratio of the cable pitch to the strand pitch is in the range of 1.2 to 1.7, and
- wherein the cable has a structural elongation of between 2.1 percent and 3 percent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.