Pneumatic tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorYuichi ISHIGAKI
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire can include a carcass, a belt layer, and reinforcing rubber layers. Turned-up portions of a carcass ply each include a first portion located between a body portion and the belt layer, a second portion adjacent to each reinforcing rubber layer in a tire axial direction, on an outer side in a tire radial direction with respect to a rim flange of a standardized rim, and a third portion located between the first portion and the second portion. A length of the third portion is 0.8 to 1.4 times a sum (La+Lb) of a length La of the first portion and a length Lb of the second portion.
Claims15
A pneumatic tire comprising:
- a tread portion;
- a pair of sidewall portions;
- a pair of bead portions respectively having bead cores;
- a carcass extending between the pair of bead portions;
- a belt layer outward of the carcass in a tire radial direction;
- and
- reinforcing rubber layers respectively at the pair of bead portions, wherein
- the carcass is a carcass ply which includes:
- a body portion extending between the bead cores of the pair of bead portions, and
- a pair of turned-up portions respectively turned up around the bead cores from an inner side toward an outer side in a tire axial direction, extending outward in the tire radial direction, and having outer ends, and
- in a tire meridional cross-section in a standardized state where the pneumatic tire is fitted on a standardized rim and inflated to a standardized internal pressure and no load is applied to the pneumatic tire,
- each of the pair of turned-up portions includes:
- a first portion between the body portion and the belt layer,
- a second portion adjacent to each reinforcing rubber layer in the tire axial direction, on an outer side in the tire radial direction with respect to a rim flange of the standardized rim, and
- a third portion between the first portion and the second portion, and
- a third length of the third portion is 0.8 to 1.4 times a sum of a first length of the first portion and a second length of the second portion.
A pneumatic tire comprising:
- a tread portion;
- a pair of sidewall portions;
- a pair of bead portions respectively having bead cores;
- a carcass extending between the pair of bead portions;
- a belt layer outward of the carcass in a tire radial direction;
- and
- reinforcing rubber layers respectively at the pair of bead portions, wherein
- the carcass is a carcass ply which includes:
- a body portion extending between the bead cores of the pair of bead portions, and
- a pair of turned-up portions respectively turned up around the bead cores from an inner side toward an outer side in a tire axial direction, extending outward in the tire radial direction, and having outer ends, and
- in a tire meridional cross-section in a standardized state where the pneumatic tire is fitted on a standardized rim and inflated to a standardized internal pressure and no load is applied to the pneumatic tire,
- each of the pair of turned-up portions includes:
- a first portion between the body portion and the belt layer,
- a second portion adjacent to each reinforcing rubber layer in the tire axial direction, on an outer side in the tire radial direction with respect to a rim flange of the standardized rim, and
- a third portion between the first portion and the second portion, and
- a third length of the third portion is 0.8 to 1.4 times a sum of a first length of the first portion and a second length of the second portion,
- each of the bead portions includes a bead apex rubber extending outward in the tire radial direction from an outer surface in the tire radial direction of the bead core, and
- in the standardized state,
- an outer end in the tire radial direction of the bead apex rubber and an outer end in the tire radial direction of the reinforcing rubber layer are outward of an outer end in the tire radial direction of the rim flange of the standardized rim, in the tire radial direction.
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