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US 9,770,949 B2Granted
Tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Fudemoto, Takashi Harada, Tong Gao, Atsuko Honjo
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Abstract
A tire includes a circular tire frame body formed of a resin-containing material. The resin material has a sea-island structure including a sea phase constituted by a first resin material and an island phase constituted by a second resin material, and the island phase is harder than the sea phase.
Claims2
A tire comprising a circular tire frame body formed of a resin-containing material, a reinforcing cord layer that comprising at least a reinforcing cord that helically wound on an outer circumferential surface of a crown portion of the tire frame,
- the resin material having a sea-island structure including a sea phase constituted by a first resin material and an island phase constituted by a second resin material, and the island phase being harder than the sea phase;
- wherein an elastic modulus of the resin containing material is 100-700 MPa,
- the first thermoplastic resin is a thermoplastic polyamide-based elastomer, and the second resin material is a polyphenylene ether,
- the second resin material has a tensile elastic modulus of 1000 MPa or greater,
- the content ratio by mass of the first thermoplastic resin to the second resin material is from 70:30 to 80:20,
- a tensile elastic modulus γ1 of the first resin material and a content W1 of the first resin material in the entire resin-containing material, and a tensile elastic modulus γ2 of the second resin material and a content W2 of the second resin material in the entire resin-containing material satisfy following Inequality (1):
- 0.25≦((γ1×W1)/(γ2×W2))≦2 Inequality (1)
- the reinforcing cord layer is configured to include a resin material, and an outer circumferential portion of the tire frame is formed of the reinforcing cord layer.
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