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Pneumatic tire with specified rubber properties

US6443205B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 12, 2001
Grant dateSep 3, 2002
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Expiry dateMar 12, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T152/10855
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass layer provided between a pair of left and right bead sections, each of both end parts of the carcass layer in a tire width direction being turned up around a bead core from the inside of the tire to its outside, and a bead apex arranged in an outer peripheral side of the bead core, wherein at least a 30% area of a cross-sectional area of the bead apex positioned in a range of 20 to 35% of a tire section height SH is made of low tan &dgr; rubber which is set in a range of 25 to 75% of tan &dgr; of base bead apex rubber for a bead apex main body.

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