Patent ID: 6630241
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: B60C,D02G,D07B,Y10T

Abstract:
A rubber-steel cord composite comprising a steel cord having, in a planar image of the composite formed by X-rays passing through the composite, a fraction R of the total area occupied by filaments of from 0.45 or more to 0.95 or less in an arbitrarily selected portion of the steel cord having a length of 15 mm in an axial direction of the cord, wherein the length of 15 mm in an axial direction of the cord means a length of 15 mm in an axial direction of an actual cord and the fraction R of the total area occupied by the filaments is expressed as R=F/A, A representing the total area of the cord and F representing the area of the cord occupied by the filaments.