Tire bead
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorTakaaki Okuda
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Abstract
A tire bead including steel wire cords and aromatic polyamide wire cords, the steel wire cords being placed inside a cross section of the tire bead and the aromatic polyamide wire cords being placed on the outside of the bead cross section.
Claims1
An annular tire bead comprising a plurality of steel wire cords and a plurality of aromatic polyamide wire cords, said steel wire cords being arranged parallel to one another to form a plurality of layers of said steel wire cords and said aromatic polyamide wire cords being arranged parallel to one another to form a plurality of layers of said aromatic polyamide wire cords, such that said layers of steel wire cords alternate with said layers of said aromatic polyamide wire cords to form said tire bead, such that layers formed by said aromatic polyamide wire cords are disposed at opposite ends of said matrix in either an axial direction or a radial direction of said tire bead.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.