US 12,344,042 B2
Tire for an agricultural vehicle
Delphine Ouvray, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); Philippe Brochet, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); Catherine Houis, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); Patrick Vervaet, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); and Gabriel Veniant, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Appl. No. 17/769,120
Filed by COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
PCT Filed Oct. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/FR2020/051807
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/074517, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1911506 (FR), filed on Oct. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0270025 A1, Aug. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. B60C 11/03 (2006.01)
CPC B60C 11/033 (2013.01) [B60C 11/0302 (2013.01); B60C 2011/0313 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tire for a vehicle for agricultural use, comprising a tread intended to come into contact with a ground via a tread surface, the tread comprising:
lugs that are separated from one another at least in part by grooves and extend radially toward an outside from a bottom surface as far as the tread surface over a radial height H at least equal to 30 mm and at most equal to a radial thickness Hmax of the tread, the lugs being distributed in two circumferential rows;
a first circumferential row being made up of a circumferential distribution of at least two families of lugs distributed periodically around a circumference of the tire, the lugs of a first family being distributed circumferentially with a shortest spacing S, and the lugs of a second family being distributed circumferentially with a longest spacing L, each lug of the first circumferential row being inclined at an angle Ψ with respect to a circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire;
the second circumferential row being obtained through symmetry of the first circumferential row with respect to an equatorial plane, passing through the center of the tread and perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the tire, followed by a rotational offset of angle θ about the axis of rotation, the rotational offset being characterized by an overlap distance between the lugs of the first circumferential row and the lugs of the second circumferential row, defined as being the circumferential distance between an axially outer end of each lug of the first circumferential row and an axially inner end of the lug of the second circumferential row,
wherein a ratio S/L of the shortest spacing S of the first family of lugs to the longest spacing L of the second family of lugs lies within the range [0.6; 0.8],
wherein the overlap distance between the first and second circumferential rows of lugs is constant around an entire circumference of the tire, and
wherein the tread has a development at the center that lies in a range [6300; 6850] mm, and has two rows of N lugs, N ranging from 20 to 25, each of the rows having three families of lugs (A, B, C), wherein an arrangement of the families of lugs follows the following sequences for each row;
N=20, the sequence is: BCCCBBAAAAACBBCABBAA;
N=21, the sequence is: AABCBCAACBAABCCCBBBAA;
N=22, the sequence is: CCABBBBBAAACCCCBAAAAAB;
N=23, the sequence is: ABBCCBAABAABBCCBCCBAABC;
N=24, the sequence is: BBCCCBBAAAABCCCAAABBBCAA; and
N=25, the sequence is: BBCBBAAABCCCBBBAAAAACCCAA.