Run flat tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorKenji Horiuchi
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Abstract
A side wall reinforced run flat tire, wherein a second carcass layer that does not reach a bead core is disposed along the outer peripheral surface of a carcass layer. A position of an outer peripheral edge of a bead filler, a relationship between a rubber thickness Gc of the inner side and a rubber thickness Ga of an outer side taken on the line X normal to the rim line and centered on the carcass layer, a relationship between the rubber thicknesses Ga and Gb of the side wall rubber in an upper region of a bead portion, and a position of a folded up end of the carcass layer are each stipulated.
Claims16
A run flat tire comprising at least one layer of a carcass layer provided around bead cores embedded in a left-right pair of bead portions and folded over from a tire inner side toward a tire outer side so as to envelop bead fillers that are disposed on an outer circumferential side of the bead cores, wherein a plurality of belt layers is disposed on an inner circumferential side of a tread portion, a belt cover layer is disposed on the outer circumferential side of the belt layers, and a side reinforcing layer having a falcated cross-section is disposed between the carcass layer and an inner liner layer of the side wall portion;
- wherein
- a second carcass layer is disposed having an edge on a tire inner wall surface side of the bead filler along an outer peripheral surface of the carcass layer and having an end between the outer peripheral surface of the bead core and an outer peripheral edge of the bead filler, wherein the outer peripheral edge of the bead filler is positioned more to an inward side in a tire radial direction than a line normal to a rim line of an outer wall surface of the bead portion;
- Ga is a rubber thickness taken on a line normal to the rim line between the carcass layer and an outer wall surface of the side wall portion, Gb is a maximum rubber thickness taken on a line normal to the second carcass layer between the second carcass layer and the outer wall surface of the side wall portion, and a relationship between Ga and Gb is 0.65 Gb<Ga<0.85 Gb;
- Gc is a rubber thickness taken on a line normal to the rim line between the carcass layer and a tire inner wall surface, and a relationship between Gc and Ga is 0.85Ga<Gc<1.00Ga;
- and
- a folded up end of the carcass layer in at least one of the side wall portions is positioned in a range of within 5 mm of both sides along the second carcass layer, demarcated by a point on the second carcass layer where the rubber thickness between the second carcass layer and the outer wall surface of the side wall portion reaches a maximum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.