Reinforced pneumatic tire
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsJenny Yu, David Frantz, Leonard Reiter, Robert Neubauer
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire has a pair of shoulder portions extending between a tread portion and opposed sidewall portions. The tire has at least one ply of a composite fabric. The composite fabric has three layers with the middle layer comprising a plurality of straight warp yarns wherein the three layers are bound together with binder yarns. At a minimum, the composite fabric ply is located in the tire shoulders.
Claims19
A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion, a belt package radially beneath the tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of shoulder portions with each shoulder portion extending between the tread portion and each sidewall portion, a pair of bead portions with a bead core therein, a carcass comprising at least one carcass ply extending between the bead portions and turnup up around the bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portions and a main portion therebetween, the tire being characterized by:
- a composite fabric ply located in the shoulder portions,
- the composite fabric ply comprising a composite fabric having three layers, the middle layer comprising a plurality of straight warp yarns, the three layers being bound together with binder yarns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.