US 12,358,323 B2
Tire
Takahiro Kawachi, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe (JP)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/973,624.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-192319 (JP), filed on Nov. 26, 2021; and application No. 2022-153888 (JP), filed on Sep. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0173842 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. B60C 11/00 (2006.01); B60C 1/00 (2006.01); B60C 11/03 (2006.01); B60C 11/12 (2006.01)
CPC B60C 1/0016 (2013.01) [B60C 11/032 (2013.01); B60C 2011/0025 (2013.01); B60C 2011/0033 (2013.01); B60C 2011/0367 (2013.01); B60C 2011/0381 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tire comprising a tread,
wherein the tread has land parts partitioned by a plurality of circumferential grooves,
wherein at least one of the land parts has a closed lateral groove that extends axially within the land part such that both axial ends terminate within the land part and do not open into any of the circumferential grooves,
wherein a groove depth H at the deepest part of the groove bottom of the closed lateral groove is larger than and is at least 1.5 times a groove depth of the circumferential grooves,
wherein the tread has at least one rubber layer,
wherein, among the at least one rubber layer, a cap rubber layer of a tread surface is composed of a rubber composition comprising a rubber component, a filler, and a silane coupling agent,
wherein the rubber component of the cap rubber layer of the tread surface comprises isoprene-based rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber and butadiene rubber,
wherein the rubber component of the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer comprises 7 to 25% by mass of isoprene-based rubber and 40 to 80% by mass of styrene-butadiene rubber, both based on 100% by mass of the rubber component,
wherein a total content of filler based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component in the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer is 40 to 100 parts by mass,
wherein a content of silica in the filler based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component in the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer is 25 to 95 parts by mass or less,
wherein a content of the silica in the filler in the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer is 30 to 95% by mass of the filler,
wherein an elongation at break of the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer under an atmosphere at −30° C. in accordance with JIS K 6251:2017 is 340% or more,
wherein a tan δ of the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer at 0° C. is 0.35 or more,
wherein the silica has an average primary particle size that is 18 nm or less,
wherein, when a brittleness temperature of the rubber composition of the cap rubber layer is defined as A (° C.) and a ratio of a groove depth at the deepest part of the groove bottom of the closed lateral groove to a thickness of the entire tread is defined as B, A is −46 or less, B is 0.80 or more, and A/B is −75 to −50.