Tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorShohei SHIBAMOTO
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Abstract
A tire comprises a tread portion provided with a band composed of at least one band cord wound spirally and circumferentially of the tire and embedded in the tread portion. When a band cord piece is taken out from the above-said at least one band cord embedded in the tread portion and measured for the length, a length Lb is equal to or smaller than a length La at least in a part of the tread portion, where the length Lb is measured at a first point of time after the band cord piece has been taken out, and the length La is measured at a second point of time after the first point of time.
Claims20
A tire comprising a tread portion provided with a band composed of at least one band cord wound spirally and circumferentially of the tire and embedded in the tread portion, wherein
- when a band cord piece is taken out from said at least one band cord embedded in the tread portion and measured for the length, at least in a part of the tread portion, a length Lb is equal to or smaller than a length La, where
- the length Lb is measured at a first point of time after the band cord piece has been taken out, and
- the length La is measured at a second point of time after the first point of time.
The tire according to claim 18, wherein
- said at least one band cord is a plurality of the band cords, and the band is formed by winding a tape of rubber in which the plurality of the band cords are embedded parallel with each other along the length of the tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.