Abstract: A radial tire when mounted on a rim and filled to normal inner pressure has a ratio of the upper cross-sectional height USH to the cross-sectional height SH between 0.50 and 0.59, a ratio of the lower cross-sectional height LSH to SH between 0.40 and 0.50, a rim width of more than 1.40 times the measuring rim width MRW but less than 1.45 MRW, an aspect ratio of less than 0.65, a beadfiller height of greater than 0.224 SH, and an angle between the tangent to the carcass line at a bead upper point B and a line extending in parallel with the rotation axis of the tire is less than 45°.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 6, 1998
Date of Patent:
December 25, 2001
Assignee:
Hankook Tire Manufacturing CO LTD
Inventors:
Myeong Hun Ahn, Keun Woo Kim, Kyun Ok Kim, Yong Hee Kim, Hwi Joong Kim