Material for reinforcing against the creep of the inner rubber of a tire for a heavy duty civil engineering vehicle
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsThierry Royer, Patricia Lagarde
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Abstract
A tire for a civil engineering vehicle the endurance of which has been improved by the addition of an anti-creep layer (30) with a thickness E2 interposed between the airtight inner layer (20), with a thickness E1, and the reinforcer coating layer (46) of the carcass reinforcement (40), with a thickness E3. The thicknesses E1, E2 and E3, being measured in millimetres in a shoulder region forming the transition between the crown and each sidewall of the tire, satisfy the following equations: 2≤E1≤4; 6≤E2+E3 and E1/E2≥0.6. In addition, the viscoelastic loss P60 of the elastomeric mixture M2 of the anti-creep layer (30) is at most equal to 20%.
Claims12
A tire for a civil engineering vehicle comprising a crown connected to two sidewalls extended by two beads, the assembly delimiting an inner cavity intended to be inflated with a gas, and comprising, starting from the inner cavity:
- an airtight inner layer forming a wall of the inner cavity, intended to come into contact with an inflation gas, having a thickness E1 and consisting of an elastomeric mixture M1;
- an anti-creep layer on the outside of the airtight inner layer, having a thickness E2 and consisting of an elastomeric mixture M2 having an elastic loss P60 measured at 60° C., the anti-creep layer and airtight inner layer extending over an entire inner surface of the crown of the tire;
- a carcass layer, on the outside of the anti-creep layer, consisting, from inside to outside, of an inner carcass coating layer, in contact with the anti-creep layer and having a thickness E3, a layer of metal reinforcers and an outer carcass coating layer, the inner and outer carcass coating layers consisting of an elastomeric mixture M3;
- the thicknesses E1, E2 and E3 being measured in a shoulder region forming the transition between the crown and each sidewall of the tire,
- wherein the airtight inner layer has a thickness E1 between two and four millimetres, the sum E2+E3 of the thicknesses E2 of the anti-creep layer and E3 of the inner carcass coating layer, respectively, is at least equal to 6 mm, the ratio E1:E2 between the thickness E1 of the airtight inner layer and the thickness E2 of the anti-creep layer is at most equal to 0.60 and the viscoelastic loss P60 of the elastomeric mixture M2 of the anti-creep layer is at most equal to 20%.
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