Run-flat tire and method for mounting the same on four-wheeled vehicle
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorSusumu Tanaka
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Abstract
A run-flat tire 1 comprises a carcass 6, a pair of side reinforcing rubber layers 9, and a pair of sidewall rubber components 10. At a tire maximum-width position, a first side reinforcing rubber layer 9A disposed in the side of a first bead portion has a thickness B1 greater than a thickness B2 of a second side reinforcing rubber layer disposed in the side of a second bead portion, and a first sidewall rubber component disposed in the side of the first bead portion has a thickness A1 smaller than a thickness A2 of a second sidewall rubber component disposed in the side of the second bead portion.
Claims10
A run-flat tire comprising:
- a carcass extending between bead cores each disposed in a first bead portion and a second bead portion, through a tread portion and sidewall portions,
- a pair of side reinforcing rubber layers made of rubber having a high hardness, and each having a crescent cross-sectional shape and disposed axially inside the carcass in each sidewall portion, and
- a pair of sidewall rubber components each disposed axially outside the carcass in each sidewall portion in such a manner that the sidewall rubber components are directly adjacent to the carcass and form part of the outer surface of the tire,
- wherein the side reinforcing rubber layers comprise a first side reinforcing rubber layer disposed in the side of the first bead portion, and a second side reinforcing rubber layer disposed in the side of the second bead portion,
- wherein the sidewall rubber components comprise a first sidewall rubber component disposed in the side of the first bead portion, and a second sidewall rubber component disposed in the side of the second bead portion,
- wherein at a tire maximum-width position in a tire cross section including a tire axis under a standard condition in which the tire is mounted on a standard rim and is inflated to a standard pressure, but no tire load is loaded, the first side reinforcing rubber layer has a thickness B1 greater than a thickness B2 of the second side reinforcing rubber layer, and the first sidewall rubber component has a thickness A1 smaller than a thickness A2 of the second sidewall rubber component, and
- wherein the respective thicknesses A1, A2, B1 and B2 satisfy the following relationships:
- 1.4≦A2/A1≦2.0;
- and
- 1.15≦B1/B2≦1.4.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.