Tire comprising a tread having grooves with undercut side faces and reinforcing elements
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsSylvain Morival, Frédéric Perrin, Patrick Pallot
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Abstract
A tire has a tread 5 which includes grooves 7, the side faces 72 of which are undercut, and includes at least one circumferential reinforcing element 8-1 arranged axially relative to said undercut side face 72 at a distance “d” of between 0 and 15% of the axial width L51 of the tread block 51, at least extending radially from the inside towards the outside from a radial level situated above the wear limit level and to a radial height equal to 5% of the thickness “p” of the tread.
Claims9
A tire comprising a tread having a contact surface for coming into contact with a carriageway when the tire is rolling, the tread comprising:
- at least one circumferential reinforcing element, at least a portion of a meridian cross-section of the at least one circumferential reinforcing element being in the shape of an obtuse triangle, a vertex of which is oriented radially toward the outside, and the at least one circumferential reinforcing element consisting of a rubber mixture with a dynamic shear modulus G* greater than a dynamic shear modulus G* of a main rubber mixture of the tread;
- at least two grooves extending at least partially circumferentially, each circumferential groove being delimited by a groove bottom and axially by two side faces;
- at least one tread block formed between two circumferential grooves, the at least one tread block having an axial width measured at a radial level corresponding substantially to the groove bottom,
- wherein at least one of the side faces is undercut, and
- wherein the at least one circumferential reinforcing element is arranged axially relative to the undercut side face at a non-zero distance d of between 0 and 15% of the axial width of the at least one tread block, the non-zero distance d being substantially constant extending radially from the inside toward the outside over an entire radial height h of the at least one circumferential reinforcing element and from a radial level situated above a wear limit level and to a radial height equal to 5% of a thickness p of the tread.
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