Pneumatic tire with a leno weave flipper or chipper
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsSerge Julien Auguste Imhoff, Yves Donckels
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire includes an axis of rotation, a carcass, a tread, and a belt structure. The carcass has at least one reinforced ply and a reinforcing structure providing a buffer for absorbing shear strain. The tread is disposed radially outward of the carcass. The belt structure is disposed radially between the carcass and the tread. The reinforcing structure comprises at least one layer of an open construction LENO weave fabric having warp yarns extending in the radial direction and weft yarns extending in the circumferential direction.
Claims14
A pneumatic tire having an axis of rotation, the pneumatic tire comprising:
- a carcass having at least one reinforced ply, each reinforced ply including a pair of axially opposite end portions turned up around a pair of beads, and a reinforcing structure in the form of a flipper at one or both end portions which completely separates the at least one reinforced ply from the respective bead thereby providing a buffer for absorbing shear strain;
- a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass;
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- a belt structure disposed radially between the carcass and the tread,
- the flipper comprising at least one layer of an open construction LENO weave fabric having warp yarns yarn pairs extending in the radial direction and weft yarns extending in the circumferential direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.