Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin

Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.a.

Michelin Recherche Et Techniques S.a.

Chris Boyer

Richard Audigier

Bopha Grisin

Christelle Chaulet

A tire having two beads and a carcass reinforcement with a main part wrapped within each bead around a bead wire core to form a turned-back portion. Each bead has an additional reinforcement and a filler profiled element extending the bead wire core radially outwards. This filler profiled element has, in any meridian plane, a three exterior sides including a radially inner side, axially inner side and axially outer side, with the axially inner and outer sides converging at a radially outermost point, and is formed of a stack in the radial direction of at least three polymer materials in contact along a contact surface that intersects any meridian plane along a meridian line.

Tire bead for a large goods vehicle

A tire comprising a crown reinforcement which is itself capped radially with a tread, the crown reinforcement containing at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements distributed axially at a variable pitch. The layer of circumferential reinforcing elements comprising five parts, these being a central part, two intermediate parts and two axially exterior parts, the pitch in the central part being in the range between 1 and 1.5 times the pitch of the axially exterior parts and the pitch in an intermediate part being in the range between 1.6 and 2 times the pitch of the axially exterior parts.

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Chris Boyer