Tire for two-wheeled motorcycles
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorMasatomo Oshima
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Abstract
A tire for two-wheeled motorcycles of the present invention includes a first carcass layer folded back along circumferential surfaces of bead cores, a second carcass layer folded back along circumferential surfaces of turnbacks of the first carcass layer 5, a belt layer wound spirally along a tire circumferential direction and an intermediate carcass layer provided between the first and second carcass layers 7 and in an inner circumferential side of the belt layer and extending close to a tire maximum width. According to the present invention, reduction of shear stiffness is restrained and thereby driveability and stability, especially handling response, can be improved.
Claims6
A tire for two-wheeled motorcycles, comprising:
- a first carcass layer folded back along circumferential surfaces of bead cores;
- a second carcass layer folded back along circumferential surfaces of turnbacks of the first carcass layer;
- a belt layer provided in an outer circumferential side of the first carcass layer and the second carcass layer and spirally wound along a tire circumferential direction;
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- an intermediate carcass layer provided between the first carcass layer and the second carcass layer and in an inner circumferential side of a tread and extending close to a tire maximum width position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.