Run-flat tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorTakanori Uemura
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Abstract
A run-flat tire includes a belt reinforcing layer outward of a belt layer in a tire radial direction and reinforcing rubber in sidewall portions. Where a center region is a region of a tread portion in which a center land portion corresponding to a land portion included in land portions in a tread portion and located closest to a tire equatorial plane is positioned, the belt reinforcing layer includes a center reinforcing portion in which more pieces of the belt reinforcing layer are layered at a position of the center region than at positions other than the position of the center region, and in the belt reinforcing layer, a width Wc of the center reinforcing portion in a tire lateral direction with respect to a thickness Gr of the side reinforcing rubber at a tire maximum width position is within a range of 0.5 Gr≤Wc≤2.0 Gr.
Claims18
A run-flat tire comprising:
- a tread portion;
- sidewall portions disposed on opposite sides of the tread portion in a tire lateral direction;
- a belt layer disposed in the tread portion;
- a belt reinforcing layer disposed outward of the belt layer in a tire radial direction;
- a tread rubber layer disposed outward, in the tire radial direction, of the belt reinforcing layer in the tread portion;
- and
- side reinforcing rubber disposed in each of the sidewall portions and including tire radial direction outer end portions located inward of the belt layer in the tire radial direction,
- the tread portion being provided with a main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and defining a plurality of land portions, and
- assuming that a center region is a region where a center land portion corresponding to the land portion included in the land portions in the tread portion and located closest to a tire equatorial plane is positioned and that shoulder regions are each a region between the corresponding tire radial direction outer end portion of the side reinforcing rubber and a corresponding end portion of the belt layer in the tire lateral direction and that
- an intermediate regions are each a region between the center region and the shoulder region,
- the belt reinforcing layer including a center reinforcing portion located at a position of the center region and in which more pieces of the belt reinforcing layer are layered than at positions other than the position of the center region, and
- in the belt reinforcing layer, a width We of the center reinforcing portion in the tire lateral direction with respect to a thickness Gr of the side reinforcing rubber at a tire maximum width position being within a range of 0.5 Gr≤Wc≤2.0 Gr, the width Wc being varied in the tire circumferential direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.