Tire comprising an optimized architecture
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsVINCENT TOURNEUX, DANIEL FABING, PATRICE FRAYSSE
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Abstract
A tire (10) for a vehicle comprises a radially outermost working layer (41) which comprises at least one undulation (412) in line with a central rib (251) of the tread (2). The undulation (412) is radially on the outside of the points of the working layer (41) in line with the bottom face (243) of the circumferential groove (24) closest to the undulation (412) and has an amplitude of at least 1 mm. The undulation (412) is vertically in line above at least one local reinforcing layer (6) comprising reinforcing elements that are mutually parallel and make with the circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire an angle of which the absolute value is at most equal to 5°.
Claims16
-15. (canceled)
A tire, for a vehicle, comprising:
- a tread (2) intended to come into contact with a ground via a tread surface (21), a circumferential midplane (P) passing through the center of the tread (21), the tread surface comprising grooves, the grooves forming a space opening onto the tread surface (21) and being delimited by at least two main lateral faces (241, 242) connected by a bottom face (243),
- at least one and at most two central ribs (251), delimited by circumferential boundaries (252), the circumferential boundaries (252) of the central ribs being substantially circumferential grooves, the substantially circumferential grooves being circumferential grooves (24) or a circumferential set of grooves (24′), a central rib being such that the circumferential midplane passes between its two boundaries or, if the circumferential midplane passes through a circumferential groove, such that the circumferential midplane passes a distance at most equal to 15 mm from one of the boundaries of the central rib (25), the circumferential grooves or the grooves of the circumferential set of grooves (24′) that form the boundaries of the central rib or ribs having a width W defined by a distance between two lateral faces (241, 242) at least equal to 5 mm and a depth D defined by a maximum radial distance between the tread surface (21) and the bottom face (243) at least equal to 2 mm,
- a crown reinforcement (3), radially on an inside of the tread (2), comprising a working reinforcement (4), and a carcass reinforcement (8) radially on an inside of the crown reinforcement comprising at least one carcass layer (8), the working reinforcement (4) comprising at least one working layer (41, 42), each working layer extending radially from a radially interior curve (RIC) to a radially exterior curve (REC), each working layer comprising at least partially metal reinforcing elements coated with an elastomer material which are mutually parallel and make with the circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire an angle of which the absolute value is at least equal to 15° and at most equal to 50°, a radially outermost working layer (41) comprising at least one central undulation (412) in line with at least one central rib (26) with an amplitude at least equal to 1 mm, each central undulation (412) being such that a portion of the radially outermost working layer (41) of the central undulation (412) is radially on an outside of the portion of the radially outermost working layer (41) in line with the bottom faces (243) of the circumferential grooves or of the grooves of the circumferential set of grooves delimiting the central rib (251) in a vertical line above the central undulation (412) concerned, wherein at least one local reinforcement (6), comprising at least one layer of reinforcing elements that are mutually parallel and make with the circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire an angle of which the absolute value is at most equal to 5°, is vertically in line with at least one central undulation (412) of the radially outermost working layer (41).
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