Heavy duty tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorsTadashi ITO, Masayuki YOSHINO
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Abstract
A tire 2 includes a pair of chafers 8 and a tag member 26. The chafer 8 comes into contact with a rim R. The tag member 26 includes an RFID tag 54. A state where a load equal to 50% of a normal load is applied to the tire 2 in a normal state and the tire 2 is brought into contact with a flat surface FS is a standard ground-contact state. In the standard ground-contact state, the RFID tag 54 is located between an axially outer end PRa of the rim R and a maximum width position PWs of the tire 2 in an axial direction, and is located between a radially outer end PRr of the rim R and the maximum width position PWs of the tire 2 in a radial direction.
Claims12
A heavy duty tire comprising:
- a pair of beads;
- a carcass extending on and between the pair of beads;
- a pair of sidewalls each located axially outward of the carcass:
- a pair of chafers each located radially inward of the sidewall and configured to come into contact with a rim;
- and
- a tag member including an RFID tag, wherein
- each of the beads includes a core and an apex located radially outward of the core,
- the carcass includes a carcass ply,
- the carcass ply includes a ply body extending between the pair of beads and a pair of turned-up portions each connected to the ply body and turned up around the bead,
- the rim is a normal rim,
- a state where the tire is fitted on the rim and an internal pressure of the tire is adjusted to a normal internal pressure is a normal state,
- a state where a load equal to 50% of a normal load is applied to the tire in the normal state and the tire is brought into contact with a flat surface is a standard ground-contact state, and
- in the standard ground-contact state, the RFID tag is located between an axially outer end of the rim and a maximum width position of the tire in an axial direction, and is located between a radially outer end of the rim and the maximum width position of the tire in a radial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.