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US 12,746,780 B2Granted
Knit body and tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsMasahiko Yamamoto, Yoshihide Kouno
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Abstract
A knit body according to the disclosure is knitted out of a filament body including at least one metal fiber having a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction, the cross section having a profile that is convex polygonal.
Claims14
A tire comprising:
- a skeleton portion including a rim member, a plurality of body springs latched on the rim member, and a plurality of interlink springs interlaced with the body springs;
- and
- a tread member disposed on at least an outer periphery of the skeleton portion, wherein
- the tread member includes a knit body knitted out of a filament body including at least one metal fiber having a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction, the cross section having a profile that is convex polygonal, and
- the knit body is disposed on the outer periphery of the skeleton portion in such a manner that the knit body is at least partially embedded in grooves sectioned by the body springs and the interlink springs in a rounded rod shape.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.