Reinforcing Plies Made Up From Wound Narrow Ribbons Patents (Class 152/533)
  • Patent number: 12049113
    Abstract: A motorcycle tire comprises a carcass and a tread reinforcing layer. The tread reinforcing layer comprises a belt and a band. The band is composed of a jointless band ply having a developed width less than 65% of the developed tread width. The belt is composed of at least one belt ply having a developed width of 65% or more of the developed tread width. At first positions, the intersecting angle between the belt cords and the carcass cords is 20 to 60 degrees. In the tread portion in a tire meridional cross sectional view, a single arc passing through a point on the tread surface at the tire equator and two points on the tread surface at the tread edges has a radius of not more than 0.7 times the maximum tire cross-section width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kota Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11807055
    Abstract: A tire 2 has a nominal aspect ratio of 65% or less. The tire 2 includes a tread 4 and a band 34. The band 34 includes a full band 42 and a pair of edge bands 44 located outward of ends of the full band 42 in a radial direction. A narrow groove 56 is formed on a shoulder land portion 54s of the tread 4. The narrow groove 56 includes an inner groove wall 62u and an outer groove wall 62s. The inner groove wall 62u includes an inner recess portion 64 recessed inward in the axial direction, on a groove bottom side. The outer groove wall 62s includes an outer recess portion 66 recessed outward in the axial direction, on the groove bottom side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Todoroki
  • Patent number: 11633993
    Abstract: A tire 2 includes a tread 4, a pair of sidewalls 6, a pair of beads 10, a carcass 12, a belt 14, an inner liner 20, and a pair of insertion layers 22 disposed between the carcass 12 and the inner liner 20. Each insertion layer 22 is disposed between an end of the belt 14 and an end PB of the bead 10. Each insertion layer 22 has a volume resistivity of less than 108 ?·cm. A complex elastic modulus of the insertion layer 22 is equivalent to or higher than a complex elastic modulus of the inner liner 20. A thickness of each sidewall 6 at a maximum width position PW is not greater than 5.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Takuya Osawa, Hiroki Uno, Kentaro Yagyu
  • Patent number: 11273674
    Abstract: In my pneumatic tire, a circumferential belt is formed by a spirally wound band strip, the tread includes at least three circumferential land portions, cords of the inclined belt layer are steel cords, the total cross-sectional area of the steel cords per 25 mm of width perpendicular to the extending direction of the steel cords is from 2.3 to 4.0 mm2, a gap is present in the tire width direction between each lap of the band strip, and the relational expression W/{(w+2d)+0.3×w}?1.0 is satisfied, where W is the width in the tire width direction of the circumferential land portion with the smallest width among the circumferential land portions, w is the width of the band strip in the tire width direction, and d is the width of the gap in the tire width direction between each lap of the band strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Maehara
  • Patent number: 11021022
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion; sidewall portions; bead portions; a carcass layer disposed extending between the pair of bead portions; a belt layer of a plurality of layers disposed on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer in the tread portion; and a band-like noise absorbing member adhered to a region corresponding to a tire inner surface of the tread portion along the tire circumferential direction interposed by an adhesive layer. The pneumatic tire further includes a belt cover layer being disposed on an outer circumferential side of the belt layer across an entire width of the belt layer, the belt cover layer including organic fiber cords arranged in the tire circumferential direction; and a rate of change of a dynamic loaded radius when traveling at 270 km/h with respect to a dynamic loaded radius when traveling at 30 km/h being restricted to 2.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Isamu Kishizoe, Yousuke Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10723181
    Abstract: The present technology provides a pneumatic tire having a strip-shaped sound-absorbing member bonded on the inner surface of the tire includes a plurality of belt layers, two or more belt cover layers, one or more belt edge cover layers, and a thread rubber layer. The thickness of the tread rubber layer is substantially uniform in the region X where the sound-absorbing member is located so that the difference between the thickness t1 at an end of the sound-absorbing member and the thickness t0 at the position of the tire equator is equal to or less than 0.5 mm. The thickness of the tread rubber layer is smaller in the region Y where the belt edge cover layer is located than in the region X so that the difference between the minimum value t2 of the thickness in the region Y and the thickness t0 ranges from 1.0 to 4.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Isamu Kishizoe, Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 10682825
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire includes forming a green tire. Forming the green tire includes: a first step of forming a first belt portion by winding a first belt on an outer peripheral surface of an inner liner and, thereafter, forming a second belt portion by winding a second belt on the first belt portion thus acquiring a belt layer; and a second step of acquiring a reinforcing layer by winding a reinforcing belt on the second belt portion. The second step includes: a first parallel winding treatment where the reinforcing belt is wound one turn on a first circumference; a spiral winding treatment where the reinforcing belt is spirally wound in a tire width direction; and a second parallel winding treatment where the reinforcing belt is wound on a second circumference within a range of from 240°±30° with one turn set to 360°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10023009
    Abstract: A tire which is formed of a resin material, is highly elastic, has a low loss factor, and has excellent heat resistance and fracture characteristics. A tire 10 has a circular tire case 17 that is formed of a resin material including a polystyrene-based resin and a resin having compatibility with polystyrene and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) higher than that of polystyrene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Hiroyuki Fudemoto
  • Patent number: 9415636
    Abstract: Provided is a tire having at least a circular tire frame formed of a thermoplastic resin material, the tire including a reinforcing cord member that forms a reinforcing cord layer on the outer circumference of the tire frame, and the thermoplastic resin material including at least a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fudemoto, Takashi Harada, Yoshihide Kouno, Seiji Kon, Keiichi Hasegawa, Munenori Iizuka, Takayuki Yako, Kunio Machida
  • Patent number: 9387725
    Abstract: Provided is a tire having a circular tire frame formed of at least a thermoplastic resin material, in which the tire includes a reinforcing cord member that forms a reinforcing cord layer on an outer circumference of the tire frame, and the thermoplastic resin material contains at least a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fudemoto, Takashi Harada, Yoshihide Kouno, Seiji Kon, Keiichi Hasegawa, Munenori Iizuka, Takayuki Yako
  • Patent number: 9327465
    Abstract: A retreaded tire manufacturing method, which avoids forming the buffed surface always in the same position by buffing in tire retreading and the resulting drop in delamination resistance of new tread rubber, and tires suitably retreaded by this manufacturing method are provided. In this method, the tread rubber of a tire is abraded away circumferentially to form a tread application surface of the tire to which new tread rubber is applied. And the position where the tread application surface is formed is radially changed as the repeat count of retreading rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuki Karita
  • Patent number: 9321230
    Abstract: A tire with a circumferential reinforcement layer formed by spirally winding rubber strips in the same direction from different positions arranged in the width direction of the tire. The rubber strips (12A and 12B) are arranged with spaces in a part or the entirety of the tire in the width direction; among those end portions of the rubber strips, at least medial end portions (12Bs and 12Ae) that are located on the equatorial plane side of the tire are arranged at positions where the medial end portions completely overlap with rib-form land portions (2a) in the width direction of the tire; and the width of the rib-form land portions overlapping with the medial end portions is defined as W and the width of the rubber strips is defined as G, wherein a relationship G<W is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Maehara
  • Patent number: 9085115
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming at least one circumferential belt layer of a pneumatic tire comprising: winding the strip for a half length of an outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane from a widthwise inner side of the belt end region; winding the strip for the remaining half length while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from a widthwise inner to outer side; winding the strip for the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane; winding the strip for the half length of the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from the widthwise outer to inner side; and winding the strip for the remaining half length along the tire equatorial plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Nakata, Takashi Oono, Makoto Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 8973635
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a belt structure and a torus shaped carcass having a first inner radius and an outer radius, wherein the carcass is comprised of three or more layers of ply, wherein each layer of ply is formed from a rubberized strip of one or more cords, the strips being wound in an geodesic pattern having the cord extend across the carcass from a first shoulder to a second shoulder in a path that has at least one point tangent to the first inner radius located in the bead area of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Allen Losey, Samuel Patrick Landers, Thulasiram Gobinath
  • Publication number: 20140251522
    Abstract: According to a method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire of the present invention using a rigid core, high-speed durability may be improved. The present invention comprises manufacturing a green tire in which the green tire is manufactured by adhering tire component members in sequence onto the rigid core. The manufacturing of the green tire comprises forming a band ply in which a band forming member is spirally wound on the rigid core to form the band ply, the band forming member being configured by a band cord, or a narrow band-shaped strip coated with a topping rubber. In the formation of the band ply, the bend forming member is heated to a temperature of above 100 deg. C. while being wound spirally with the bend forming member being extended by at not less than 0.5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 8720514
    Abstract: A tire comprising a hooping reinforcement, wherein the axial distance between neighboring portions of the hooping reinforcement is greater than or equal to 0.7 mm and smaller than or equal to 2 mm, with the exception of one first axial region L1 and two second axial regions L2. The axial distance of each of the axial ends of the first axial region L1 from the median plane is greater than or equal to 0.05·S and smaller than or equal to 0.15·S, S being the maximum axial width of the tire. The two regions L2 are provided on both sides of the median plane, each second axial region being centered at an axial distance D2 from the median plane, D2 being greater than or equal to 0.25·S and smaller than or equal to 0.4·S. Each second axial region L2 has an axial width W2 that is greater than or equal to 0.1·S. The sum of the axial widths of the first and second axial regions is smaller than or equal to 0.5·S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A., Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventor: Nicolas Dautrey
  • Publication number: 20140053964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming at least one circumferential belt layer of a pneumatic tire comprising: winding the strip for a half length of an outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane from a widthwise inner side of the belt end region; winding the strip for the remaining half length while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from a widthwise inner to outer side; winding the strip for the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane; winding the strip for the half length of the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from the widthwise outer to inner side; and winding the strip for the remaining half length along the tire equatorial plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke YOSHIKAWA, Hiroshi NAKATA, Takashi OONO, Makoto TSURUTA
  • Patent number: 8465618
    Abstract: A process for recovering rubber from a tire, the tire including a rubber tread block, steel belting, and an inner liner that serves to hold the air pressure in the tire. The bead and sidewall may be removed from the tire leaving a loop of tread material. Next, the loop is placed on a rubber-separating machine to hold the loop in place. One or more cutting blades are lowered into position at the tread portion of the tire. Once the blades are in place, the tread loop is placed in motion around the rollers. As the blades contact the steel belts, the cutting blades separate the tread rubber from the reinforced rubber at the interface between the tread rubber and the steel belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Rubber Recovery Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Edward McMahon, Uwe Zitzow
  • Patent number: 8376011
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial aircraft tire is described having a B/A ranging between 60-70%, wherein B is the width of the tire between the wheel flange, and A is the inflated tire width under rated pressure. The tire may further optionally include a tire bead portion having a Ra/Fr1 relationship which ranges from about 1 to about 2.1, wherein: Ra is the tire heel radius at uninflated and in an new and unused condition, and Fr1 is the wheel flange elliptical radius at the heel section of the tire. The tire may further optionally include a SW/TS ratio which ranges from about 0.1 to about 0.5, wherein SW is the chafer gauge at area A, TS is the total sidewall rubber gauge at area A, wherein A is defined as the region in the sidewall that has a lower radial endpoint defined by the point of contact between the flange and the tire at inflated, unloaded condition, and an upper radial endpoint Ah defined by the tire wheel flange point of contact when the tire is at inflated, and at 100% rated load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ueyoko, Clarence Byrd Alsobrook, Badal Das
  • Patent number: 8371352
    Abstract: The present invention provides a belt formed of a spirally wound strip member constituted of a few juxtaposed cords and rubber coating thereon, with a structure which can absorb influence of difference in winding diameter at the unit width portion of the strip member without deteriorating productivity of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Itai
  • Patent number: 8281837
    Abstract: Provided are a pneumatic tire with a durability which is improved by preventing oxygen deterioration of coating rubber of a reinforcement layer, and a method of manufacturing the pneumatic tire. The pneumatic tire according to the present invention is a pneumatic tire including a reinforcement layer having reinforcement cords. In the pneumatic tire, the reinforcement layer is covered with thin films each made of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composition obtained by blending a thermoplastic resin with an elastomer in a way that the reinforcement is wrapped with the thin films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Kirino
  • Patent number: 8210223
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire for use on aircraft has a tread, a crown reinforcement, and a radial carcass reinforcement having at least one axially inner ply of textile cords wound around a pair of bead cores, at least one axially inner ply being wound around the bead core in each bead from inside to the outside forming outside turn-ups and at least one axially outer ply of textile cords extending from bead to bead along the turn-ups of the at least one axially inner ply. The at least one axially inner ply or at least one axially outer ply has merged cords having a percent elongation at break of 12% to less than 20% and a break strength greater than 1050 N with a linear density of greater than 9,000 dtex. Merged cord reinforcement is preferably used in the ply layers or strips of the crown reinforcement as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Walter Kevin Westgate, Yuvaraj Senthil Arumugam, Robert John Gartland
  • Patent number: 8191595
    Abstract: A tire for two-wheeled motorcycles of the present invention includes a first carcass layer folded back along circumferential surfaces of bead cores, a second carcass layer folded back along circumferential surfaces of turnbacks of the first carcass layer 5, a belt layer wound spirally along a tire circumferential direction and an intermediate carcass layer provided between the first and second carcass layers 7 and in an inner circumferential side of the belt layer and extending close to a tire maximum width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Masatomo Oshima
  • Patent number: 8151849
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire for mounting on an aircraft wheel has a radial carcass and flipper reinforcement. The tire has a pair of bead cores, at least two or more axially inner plies greater than or equal to, extending between the bead cores, a crown reinforcement radially outward of the plies having a maximum belt width BW, and at least one flipper reinforcement wrapped around each bead core. Each bead core has a radially extending cross sectional length B. Each flipper reinforcement extends along an inner surface of the bead core to the axially inner end located in an area that is between 0.01 BW to 0.25 BW as measured from the belt edge toward a centerline of the tire preferably in the range of 0.05 BW to 0.125 BW and wherein one flipper reinforcement has an axially outer end lower than the top of the bead core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Ueyoko
  • Patent number: 8137495
    Abstract: A method of producing a pneumatic tire in which, a cord material of a secondary belt layer has a larger thermal shrinkage rate than that of the primary belt layer to effectively suppress the radial expansion of a tire and advantageously improve cutting-resistance of a tread as in the conventional tire. In the method, a ribbon-shaped strip 22 is folded in a region R, in a developed plan view of a material 21 forming the secondary belt layer, between a side end e of the forming material 21 and a position distanced from the side end toward the tire equatorial side by ¼ of the overall width of the forming material, such that the thus bent ribbon-shaped strip 22 extends in a curved manner to build a green tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Togou
  • Patent number: 8104525
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread-reinforcing band made of at least one spirally wound cord, wherein the band cord consists of materially identical high-strength high-modulus organic filaments, and the band cord is formed by first twisting each of filament bunches, subjecting the first twisted bunches to a dip-and-stretch treatment, and then twisting the treated bunches together, whereby the load-elongation curve of the band cord comprises a low-modulus zone and a high-modulus zone whose boundary point is in an elongation range of from 1 to 7%, and the ratio EH/EL of a nominal elastic modulus EH of the high-modulus zone and a nominal elastic modulus EL of the low-modulus zone is in a range of from 2.0 to 10.0. Therefore, high-modulus aramid cords, PEN cords and the like can be used to reduce the tire weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Touru Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 8083877
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire containing a tread, a carcass having at least one belt ply disposed below the tread, and a cap ply located between the carcass and the tread. The cap ply comprises at least one layer of an open construction leno weave tape having a pair of warp yarns in the longitudinal direction and a weft yarn in the weft direction. The pair of warp yarns comprises a first warp yarn and a second warp yarn, where the second warp yarn has a force of elongation of between about 1 and 40% the force of elongation of the first warp yarn, where the second warp yarn is in tension, and where the second warp yarn has an elongation at break of greater than 2%. The leno weave tape is disposed in a flat pattern around the circumference of the carcass in the area of the belt ply. A method of making a pneumatic tire is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Dany F. Michiels, Johann Peschek, Willy Delanoy, Boudewijn Snauwaert
  • Patent number: 8079392
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of parallel annular bead portions, at least one carcass ply reinforcing structure wrapped around the beads, a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass ply, a belt reinforcing structure disposed radially outward of the carcass ply reinforcing structure and radially inward of the tread in a crown area of the tire, and a layer of cords having an alternating straight/curled construction for improving performance characteristics of the pneumatic tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Roland Willibrord Krier, Francois Pierre Charles Gerard Georges, Jean-Michel Alphonse Fernand Gillard
  • Patent number: 8075718
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a heavy-duty pneumatic tire by winding a reinforcing belt disposed in a belt layer of a tread with an untopped spiral steel cord, and a tire manufactured by the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Chang Chun, Seung Il Min
  • Patent number: 8016006
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one ply to the other, forming angles of between 10° and 45° with the circumferential direction, which itself is topped radially by a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by means of two sidewalls and the axially widest working crown layer being radially internal to the other working crown layers. The tire comprises additionally in each shoulder at least one layer of reinforcement elements which are parallel to each other in the layer and are oriented circumferentially, the axially inner end of said additional layer being radially adjacent to the edge of a working crown layer, at least part of said additional layer being radially and/or axially adjacent to the edge of the axially widest working crown layer and the axially outer end of said additional layer being radially internal to the axially widest working crown layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Jean Coue, Robert Radulescu, François Barbarin
  • Patent number: 8011404
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a motorcycle in which partial abrasion is suppressed by making the slip component of a tread lubber in the circumferential direction of tire as uniform as possible in the ground contacting plane. A cushion rubber layer 38 having elastic modulus lower than that of the tread rubber 30 is arranged on a spiral belt layer 22, and an inclination belt layer 24 including a cord inclining at an angle of 45 to 90 degrees to the circumferential direction of the tire is arranged on the cushion rubber layer 38. Consequently, shear deformation of the cushion rubber layer 38 during traveling can be transmitted to the tread rubber 30 after being smoothed by the inclination belt layer 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ishiyama, Masafumi Koide
  • Patent number: 8006733
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire containing a tread, a carcass having at least one belt ply disposed below the tread, and a cap ply located between the carcass and the tread. The cap ply comprises at least one layer of an open construction leno weave tape having a pair of warp yarns in the longitudinal direction and a weft yarn in the weft direction. The pair of warp yarns comprises a first warp yarn and a second warp yarn, where the second warp yarn has a force of elongation of between about 1 and 40% the force of elongation of the first warp yarn, where the second warp yarn is in tension, and where the second warp yarn has an elongation at break of greater than 2%. The leno weave tape is disposed in a flat pattern around the circumference of the carcass in the area of the belt ply. A method of making a pneumatic tire is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Dany F. Michiels, Johann Peschek, Willy Delanoy, Peter Eeckhout, Boudewijn Snauwaert
  • Patent number: 7987883
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one ply to the other, forming angles of between 10° and 45° with the circumferential direction, which itself is topped radially by a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by means of two sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Gaëlle Netzer, Jean Coue
  • Patent number: 7950430
    Abstract: Pneumatic tires for aircraft service having a belt package with shoulder reinforcement. The tire includes a belt reinforcing structure or belt package having multiple cut belts, multiple spiral wound belt layers positioned radially between the cut belts and the tread, and multiple spiral wound shoulder layers proximate the shoulder. The spiral wound belt layers and the spiral wound shoulder layers are formed by a continuous cord-reinforced strip having a strip width. The spiral wound belt layers are characterized by a first winding pitch of approximately one strip width per revolution and the spiral wound shoulder layers are characterized by a second winding pitch of less than one strip width per revolution. Alternatively, the spiral wound shoulder layers may be formed with a tiered arrangement by shifting the starting location for successive spiral wound belt layers laterally so that the side edges are not coincident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Roel Domingo Villanueva, John Joseph Slivka
  • Patent number: 7938158
    Abstract: A puncture resistant pneumatic tire has a tread portion and a pair of lateral tread edges. A belt package is located radially inward of the tread portion and a carcass structure has at least one body ply which extends between and is turned up around a pair of bead cores. A protective band extends circumferentially about the tire radially beneath the tread portion and includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced metal rods, each of which extends in a lateral direction between the tread edges. The protective band may be located radially inward or outward of a spiral ply layer and the rods may be arranged in a staggered laterally offset layered relationship. The rods have a circular cross-section with a diameter of between 1/16 inch and ¼ inch and a length of between 7 inches and 8 inches and will deflect and dislodge the pointed end of road debris before it completely punctures the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: David R. Stewart
  • Patent number: 7934527
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic radial tire including a carcass layer composed of a carcass ply 12 and a spiral belt layer 26 composed of steel cords wound spirally substantially in parallel with each other to a tire equator surface. When the ratio of spacing R1 between adjacent steel cords of the spiral belt layer 26 is shown by R1=(50?E×ds)/50, the ratio of spacing R1 is 0.45 or less as well as the total sectional area S of the steel cords applied per 50 mm width of the spiral belt layer is 7.5 mm2 or less (E shows the number of steel cords applied per 50 mm width of the spiral belt layer, and ds shows the diameter (mm) of each steel cord). The number of steel cords E applied per 50 mm of width ranges from 66 to 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Ikehara
  • Patent number: 7931062
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire containing a tread, a carcass having at least one belt ply disposed below the tread, and a cap ply located between the carcass and the tread. The cap ply comprises at least one layer of an open construction leno weave tape having a pair of warp yarns in the longitudinal direction and a weft yarn in the weft direction. The pair of warp yarns comprises a first warp yarn and a second warp yarn, where the second warp yarn has a force of elongation of between about 1 and 40% the force of elongation of the first warp yarn, where the second warp yarn is in tension, and where the second warp yarn has an elongation at break of greater than 2%. The leno weave tape is disposed in a flat pattern around the circumference of the carcass in the area of the belt ply. A method of making a pneumatic tire is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Dany F. Michiels, Johann Peschek, Willy Delanoy, Peter Eeckhout, Boudewijn Snauwaert
  • Patent number: 7926532
    Abstract: A tire for a two-wheeled motorcycle includes a continuous carcass-type reinforcement structure, having reinforcement elements and anchored on each side to a bead. Each bead extends radially by a sidewall, which meets up radially with a tread. Under the tread is a crown reinforcement structure including at least one working layer, and which does not comprise any circumferentially oriented reinforcement elements. Over the profile of the tire in a radial plane, in its part outside of the two points of tangency of the curvilinear abscissa of the carcass-type reinforcement structure with perpendiculars to the axis of rotation at least one layer of working reinforcement elements is at least partially radially to the inside of the part of the carcass-type reinforcement structure radially to the outside of the two points of tangency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Pascal Prost, Alain Valle
  • Patent number: 7918259
    Abstract: This invention provides a pneumatic tire having a highly improved steering stability, wherein a reinforcing layer formed by spirally winding a strip-shaped triaxial fabric or triaxial fabric-rubber composite having a width W satisfying a relation of the following formula (I): W?2/3×31/2×(2b/a+d)??(I) [wherein d=4×(D/(??))1/2×10?2, D is a thickness (total dtex) of cord constituting the triaxial fabric, ? is a density (g/cm3) of the cord constituting the triaxial fabric, and a is weaving density (cords/b mm) in one axis constituting the three axes] in a circumferential direction of the tire is disposed in one or more of a bead portion 1, a sidewall portion 2 and a belt portion 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7918258
    Abstract: A tire for a two-wheeled motorized vehicle includes a carcass-type reinforcement structure, having reinforcement elements anchored on each side to a bead. Each bead extends radially by a sidewall, which meets up radially with a tread. Under the tread is a crown reinforcement structure including at least one working layer of working reinforcement elements, and a layer of circumferentially oriented reinforcement elements disposed radially to the outside of the carcass-type reinforcement structure. Over the profile of the tire in a radial plane, radially to the outside of the two points of tangency of the curvilinear abscissa of the carcass-type reinforcement structure with perpendiculars to the axis of rotation, at least one layer of working reinforcement elements is at least partially radially to the inside of the part of the carcass-type reinforcement structure radially to the outside of the two points of tangency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Pascal Prost, Alain Valle
  • Patent number: 7905265
    Abstract: An aircraft tire inflated to high pressure and including a tread and a crown reinforcement in the form of composite textile cables which form at least one twin ply of two layers of crossed elements obtained by winding, in a zigzag around a cylindrical support and from one edge of the crown reinforcement to the other, a strip of at least one reinforcement until the two layers of crossed elements form angles of opposing directions of between 8° and 30° with the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Cyrille Roget, Lilian Vialatte
  • Patent number: 7900672
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread with shoulders, a belt structure, a carcass, and a radial ply structure. The shoulders have a continuous curving radially outer profile so that the shoulders transition smoothly from the tread profile to the tire sidewalls. The locus of the radii defining the shoulder is located on the inner side of the tire. The tire has a belt structure formed of an annular layer of parallel cords directly adjacent to the radial ply structure, the annular layer having a pair of opposing annular edges and a continuous radius curve profile. Located radially inward of the axial edges of the annular layer is an annular reinforcing strip layer. The strip has a width of not greater than 30 mm and extends axially outward by a distance of not more than 10 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Woiciech Franciszek Baran
  • Patent number: 7882878
    Abstract: A radial tire for airplane comprises a pair of bead cores, a radial carcass, and a belt disposed on an outer periphery of a crown portion of the radial carcass and comprised of plural belt layers each containing organic fiber cords, in which a total strength in a circumferential direction over a full width of the belt Tbelt(N) satisfies Tbelt/WD?1.5×106 when an outer diameter of the tire is D (m) and a width of the tire is W (m), and at least one layer of the belt layers is constituted with an organic fiber cord spirally winding at an angle of approximately 0° with respect an equatorial plane of the tire and satisfying the following equations (I) and (II): ???0.01E+1.2??(I) ??0.02??(II) (wherein ? is a heat shrinkage stress at 177° C. (cN/dtex) and E is an elastic modulus at 25° C. under a load of 49 N (cN/dtex)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Yano, Susumu Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 7879391
    Abstract: An apparatus and process are used to make tape which can be used as cap plies, breakers and reinforcement in the carcass of tires. The tape is made by dipping a plurality of single end cords in a solvent-based cement. The cords are converged before entering the dip pan so that they are fixed in a single plane when they are dipped. The cement, which contains solvent and an elastomeric composition, is dried so that the majority of the solvent evaporates. The elastomeric composition remains, encapsulating the cords, thereby forming the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kordsa USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney Gene Stamper, David Patrick Stewart
  • Patent number: 7874335
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a leno weave tape having warp yarn in the longitudinal direction and weft yarns in the weft direction. The leno weave tape is wound in a flat helically wound around the belt plies, and cover with a tread of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Dany Michiels, Geert Broos, Willy Delanoy, Werner K. Hess, Boudewijn Snauwaert
  • Patent number: 7874334
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pneumatic tire for a motorcycle capable of satisfying all of high-speed durability, turning performance and slide controllability. The invention relates to a pneumatic tire 10 for a motorcycle having a bead core 12, a carcass 14, a tread rubber 18, a side rubber 26 and a spiral belt 30. The number of cords Nmc in the spiral belt 30 in the center area is set to 30 to 70/50 mm, and the number of cords Nms in the spiral belt 30 in the shoulder area is set to 10 to 45/50 mm (Nmc/Nms=1.5 to 3.0). The tread rubber 18 is set to tan ?/E?=0.06 to 0.14 MPa?1 in the center area CA and the tread rubber 18 is set to tan ?/E?=0.12 to 0.16 MPa?1 in the shoulder area SA (TEc/TEs=0.4 to 0.9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 7857025
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has two belt layers, each having a plurality of strip pieces formed by pulling together and rubberizing a plurality of steel cords. Strip piece width, strip piece thickness, belt layer cord angle with respect to a tire circumferential direction, numbers of the strip pieces of inner and outer belt layers, and circumferential lengths of the inner and outer belt layers are respectively denoted by A, G, ?, N1, N2, L1 and L2. N2 is equal to N1, and N1 is an integer satisfying L1=N1×A/sin ?. The inner belt layer is formed by joining the N1 strip pieces so each side of each strip piece is butted with one side of another strip piece. The outer belt layer is formed by aligning the N2 strip pieces on the inner belt layer in the tire circumferential direction with spaces of width 2?G/N2 disposed between adjacent strip pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kabe, Tsuneo Morikawa
  • Patent number: 7823616
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pneumatic radial tire being excellent in steering stabilities during low-speed running and high-speed running, and more particularly to a pneumatic radial tire comprising at least one belt reinforcing layer 6A, 6B disposed on a belt 5 outward in a radial direction of the tire, characterized in that a reinforcing element constituting the belt reinforcing layer 6A, 6B is a polyketone fiber cord satisfying conditions of the following equations (I) and (II): ???0.01×E+1.2??(I) ???0.02??(II) [wherein ? is a thermal shrinkage stress (cN/dtex) at 177° C.; and E is an elastic modulus (cN/dtex) at 25° C. under a load of 49 N].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7823615
    Abstract: A tire (2) includes a belt (12) provided on a carcass (10) and a band (14) for covering the belt (12). The band (14) includes a full band (36) and a pair of edge bands (38) provided in the vicinity of a shoulder and positioned on an outside in a radial direction of the full band (36). The full band (36) has a first band cord (40) wound spirally in a substantially circumferential direction. The edge band (38) has a second band cord (44) wound spirally in the substantially circumferential direction. A modulus of the second band cord (44) is higher than that of the first band cord (40). In the tire (2), it is preferable that an outer end (50) of the full band (36) should be provided on an outside of an outer end (48) of the belt (12) in an axial direction. An outer end (52) of the edge band (38) is identical to the outer end (48) of the belt (12) or is provided on an inside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masumi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7798189
    Abstract: A radial tire for airplane comprises a pair of bead cores, a radial carcass, and a belt disposed on an outer periphery of a crown portion of the radial carcass and comprised of plural belt layers each containing organic fiber cords, in which a total strength in a circumferential direction over a full width of the belt Tbelt(N) satisfies Tbelt/WD?1.5×106 when an outer diameter of the tire is D (m) and a width of the tire is W (m), and at least one layer of the belt layers is constituted with an organic fiber cord extending zigzag in the circumferential direction and satisfying the following equations (I) and (II): ???0.01E+1.2??(I) ??0.02??(II) (wherein ? is a heat shrinkage stress at 177° C. (cN/dtex) and E is an elastic modulus at 25° C. under a load of 49 N (cN/dtex)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Yano, Susumu Ishizaki