Run-Flat Tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorNorifumi Kameda
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Abstract
A run-flat tire includes reinforcing rubber in a sidewall, first bead filler rubber disposed toward the inside of a folded back portion of a carcass layer in a lateral direction, and second bead filler rubber disposed toward the outside of the folded back portion in the lateral direction. The reinforcing rubber has a thickness from a rim base line to a position within 38% to 68% of a tire cross-sectional height being from 90% to 100% of a maximum thickness of the reinforcing rubber. In a range from a position of a rim check line to a position being 38% of the tire cross-sectional height from the rim base line, a total thickness of the reinforcing rubber, the first bead filler rubber, and the second bead filler rubber is from 100% to 140% of the maximum thickness of the reinforcing rubber.
Claims16
A run-flat tire, comprising:
- a tread portion;
- a sidewall portion disposed on each of both sides of the tread portion;
- a bead portion disposed toward the inside of the sidewall portion in a tire radial direction;
- a carcass layer extending from the tread portion through the sidewall portion to the bead portion, and comprising an end portion folded back in the bead portion toward the outside in a tire lateral direction while the carcass layer is wound in a tire circumferential direction;
- an innerliner layer disposed in an inner circumferential surface of the carcass layer;
- side reinforcing rubber disposed between the carcass layer and the innerliner layer in the sidewall portion;
- first bead filler rubber disposed toward the inside of a folded back portion of the carcass layer in the tire lateral direction;
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- second bead filler rubber disposed toward the outside of the folded back portion of the carcass layer in the tire lateral direction along the carcass layer;
- the side reinforcing rubber having a thickness from a reference position toward the inside of a tire cross-sectional height in the tire radial direction to a position toward the outside within a range of 38% or more and 68% or less of the tire cross-sectional height in the tire radial direction being within a range of 90% or more and 100% or less of a maximum thickness of the side reinforcing rubber;
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- at least in a range from a position in the tire radial direction of a rim check line to a position being 38% of the tire cross-sectional height outward from the reference position in the tire radial direction, a total thickness of the side reinforcing rubber, the first bead filler rubber, and the second bead filler rubber being within a range of 100% or more and 140% or less of the maximum thickness of the side reinforcing rubber.
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