Patent ID: 8925605
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A run-flat tire, comprising: a carcass, as a frame, formed of at least one carcass ply toroidally extending across between bead cores embedded in a pair of bead portions, the at least one carcass ply extending as being wound around a bead core in each bead portion from inside to outside in the tire width direction; a bead filler in each bead portion arranged on the outside of the bead core in the tire radial direction; a belt and a tread portion arranged in order on the outside of a crown portion of the carcass in a radial direction; a sidewall portion falling between the tread portion and each of the bead portions; and a side-reinforcing rubber arranged on the inside of the carcass at each sidewall portion in the tire width direction, wherein the at least one carcass ply includes cords made of a material having a thermal shrinkage rate of 2% to 8% at 177° C.; wherein the run-flat tire further includes, on the outside of the side-reinforcing rubber of each sidewall portion in the tire width direction, a reinforcing cord layer including cords made of a cellulosic fiber material having a thermal shrinkage rate of less than 2% at 177° C.; wherein the reinforcing cord layer is arranged adjacent to the carcass on the outside of the carcass in the tire width direction; and wherein the reinforcing cord layer has an end portion on the belt side lying on the inside in the tire width direction than an end portion of the belt in the belt width direction, and the reinforcing cord layer further has another end portion on the bead side, the another end portion extending as being wound around the bead core so as to be folded back at the bead core from inside to outside in the tire width direction, the reinforcing cord layer covering and restraining the bead filler in each bead portion.