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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Claude Schweitzer, Colmar-Berg, LU;
Jean-Louis Marie Félicien Thomas, Waltzing, BE;
Evangelia Konstantaki, Hunsdorf, LU;
François Philippe Depouhon, Arlon, BE;
Kundan Kumar, Colmar-Berg, LU;
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having a pair of spaced apart bead components, a connecting carcass between the bead components, a pair of sidewalls overlying the carcass, and a rubber chafer portion adjacent to each of the sidewalls and positioned around at least a portion of each of the bead components and intended for contacting a rigid rim of a wheel, the rubber chafer portion comprising a radially innermost toe guard and a chafer adjacent to a radially outer end of the toe guard; wherein the ratio of a modulus of the toe guard to a modulus of the chafer is in the range of 3 to 10.