US 12,227,040 B2
Pneumatic tire for vehicle with reinforcing structure in the lower toric cavity
Mathieu Girard, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); and Bertrand Daval, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Appl. No. 16/771,173
Filed by COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
PCT Filed Dec. 7, 2018, PCT No. PCT/FR2018/053147
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 9, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/115917, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17/61883 (FR), filed on Dec. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0162808 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. B60C 9/06 (2006.01); B60C 9/17 (2006.01); B60C 9/30 (2006.01); B60C 9/02 (2006.01); B60C 9/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60C 9/06 (2013.01) [B60C 9/17 (2013.01); B60C 9/30 (2013.01); B60C 2009/0215 (2013.01); B60C 2009/0475 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle tire, configured to be mounted on a nominal rim and inflated to a nominal pressure P, the tire having an axial width S and a radial height H in a mounted and inflated state, and comprising:
a crown having a radially outer tread surface, configured to come into contact with the ground, and two axial end portions ends, each extended radially inwardly by a sidewall of the tire and then by a bead of the tire configured to come into contact with the rim;
wherein the crown, the sidewalls and the beads delimit a toroidal interior cavity of the tire;
wherein the tire has an equatorial plane passing through a middle of the tread surface and perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the tire,
wherein the tire comprises a stiffening structure, which is distributed circumferentially over an entire circumference of the tire and which comprises at least one elongated stiffening element extending in length continuously in the toroidal interior cavity without intersecting the equatorial plane, from a crown interface, which is integral with the at least one elongated stiffening element as a first longitudinal end portion of the at least one elongated stiffening element and which is directly connected as a cured connection to a radially inner face of the crown to a bead interface, which is integral with the at least one elongated stiffening element as a second longitudinal end portion of the at least one elongated stiffening element and which is directly connected as a cured connection to an axially inner face of one of the beads, the at least one stiffening element not dividing the toroidal interior cavity into several mutually sealed and independent cavities, and
wherein at least one of:
the axially outermost crown interface is positioned, with respect to the equatorial plane, at an axial distance A at most equal to 0.15 times and at least equal to 0.05 times the axial width S; and
the radially outermost bead interface is positioned, with respect to a radially innermost point of the axially inner face of the bead, at a radial distance B at most equal to 0.10 times the radial height H.