Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60C—VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES
  • B60C11/00—Tyre tread bands; Tread patterns; Anti-skid inserts
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60C—VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES
  • B60C1/00—Tyres characterised by the chemical composition or the physical arrangement or mixture of the composition
  • B60C1/0016—Compositions of the tread
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60C—VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES
  • B60C11/00—Tyre tread bands; Tread patterns; Anti-skid inserts
  • B60C11/14—Anti-skid inserts, e.g. vulcanised into the tread band
  • B60C2011/147—Foamed rubber or sponge rubber on the tread band
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
  • Y10T428/249921—Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component
  • Y10T428/249953—Composite having voids in a component [e.g., porous, cellular, etc.]
  • Y10T428/249976—Voids specified as closed
  • Y10T428/249977—Specified thickness of void-containing component [absolute or relative], numerical cell dimension or density
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
  • Y10T428/249921—Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component
  • Y10T428/249953—Composite having voids in a component [e.g., porous, cellular, etc.]
  • Y10T428/249987—With nonvoid component of specified composition
  • Y10T428/249988—Of about the same composition as, and adjacent to, the void-containing component
  • Y10T428/249989—Integrally formed skin

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a tire or equivalent system, intended to equip a heavy vehicle of the heavy truck, agricultural or civil engineering type, said tire comprising at least one carcass reinforcement radially surmounted by a tread.
• Such tires consist of a carcass reinforcement usually surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement, itself crowned radially with a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by the intermediary of two sidewalls. It appears that the use of such vehicles especially in the case of agricultural applications leads to a crushing of crops.
• the ground-vehicle contact is made via the contact area of the tire on the ground; the pressure exerted by the load as well as the tangential forces resulting from the transmission of braking and motor couples and from lateral forces linked to the dynamics of the vehicle are actually liable to damage the ground by compaction, tearing or friction.
• Current user demand is. to reduce the risk of crop damage during use on agrarian soils due to the crushing of said crops during the passage of vehicles and more specifically tires. It is known to reduce soil crushing by decreasing the pressure of the tires and / or by increasing the dimensions of the tires to decrease the pressure on the ground and therefore the crushing. It is thus possible to obtain ground pressures reduced to less than 1 bar.
• An object of the invention is thus to provide tires or equivalent systems for heavy goods vehicle type which in particular make it possible to reduce damage to the ground, in particular due to compaction or crushing due to the passage of the vehicle, whatever the nature of the soil and in particular in the case of loose soil or of soil with surface irregularities.
• the machine tire according to the invention comprises a carcass reinforcement radially surmounted by a crown reinforcement, itself crowned radially with a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by the intermediary of two sides, said tread being formed at least in its radially outer part of an expanded elastomeric mixture of density less than 0.2 and preferably close to 0.1.
• axial means a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the tire; this direction can be “axially interior” when it is directed towards the interior of the tire and “axially exterior” when it is directed towards the exterior of the tire.
• “Radial” is understood to mean a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the tire and passing through this axis of rotation.
• This direction can be “radially inner” or “radially outer” depending on whether it is directed towards the axis of rotation or towards the outside of the tire.
• the axis of rotation of the tire is the axis around which it rotates in normal use.
• the circumferential direction of the tire, or longitudinal direction is the direction corresponding to the periphery of the tire and defined by the rolling direction of the tire. At any point, it is perpendicular to the radial and axial directions.
• a radial or meridian plane is a plane which contains the axis of rotation of the tire.
• a circumferential plane is a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the tire.
• the circumferential median plane or equatorial plane is a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the tire and which divides the tire into two halves.
• the tire thus defined according to the invention makes it possible to substantially improve the distribution of the pressure exerted on the ground at the level of the tire's footprint.
• the shore 00 hardness of the expanded elastomeric mixture is less than 60 and preferably less than 55.
• the shore 00 hardness is measured according to standard ASTM D 2240. More preferably, the expanded elastomeric mixture is closed cell foam.
• the tire according to the invention thus defined makes it possible to exhibit characteristics such that on soils having irregularities, the tread of said tire has a deformation around the obstacle, or irregularity, said deformation being localized and limited to the strip of rolling.
• the rigidity of the tread very much lower than that of the structure of the tire allows very localized deformation due to the irregularity of the ground.
• Such an embodiment allows v thus keep a satisfactory homogeneity of the distribution of the load exerted at the footprint without observing peak excessive overload.
• the tire thus defined and more specifically its tread has an acceptable deformation when it is prestressed due to the load applied to the wheel.
• a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that the expanded elastomeric mixture is butyl.
• Such a material is for example described in European patent application EP 1 149 678.
• An advantageous variant of the invention provides that the radially outer part of the tread is covered with a protective film.
• a protective film is for example an unexpanded butyl type film.
• the protective function sought relates essentially to attacks by the ground; an advantage is thus chosen of a material of greater cohesion having in particular a resistance to tearing.
• the protective film can also advantageously be chosen to confer other types of protection, for example against solar radiation, or even against chemical attack.
• a preferred embodiment of the invention also provides that the radially outer part of the tread is integral with the radially inner layer directly in contact with it. This result can in particular be obtained by bonding the tread to a basic structure of said tire.
• the basic structure of the tire is for example a tire produced beforehand without a tread or at least without the radially outer part of the tread.
• the results of the tests carried out have shown that the use of a tire thus defined according to the invention makes it possible to reduce the risks of damage to the crops when driving in the fields, in particular because of the better distribution of the pressure at the level of the surface in contact with the ground.
• the invention also provides a tread for heavy equipment consisting at least in its radially outer part of an expanded elastomeric mixture with a density less than 0.2 and advantageously close to 0.1.
• the shore 00 hardness of the expanded elastomeric mixture is less than 60 and preferably less than 55.
• the expanded elastomeric mixture is a closed cell foam and for example a butyl.
• the radially outer part of the tread is covered with a protective film.
• the invention also proposes the use of a tread as described above for the production of a movement aid device such as a tire or a track.
• said tread is fixed by any means known to those skilled in the art such as an adhesive to a basic structure of said movement aid device.
• said tread is associated in a non-definitive manner with a basic structure of said movement aid device.
• the tread can be used in the form of a sleeve or sock which is put in place only when necessary.
• Such an implementation can be likened, as regards the installation, to the chains provided for driving on snow with regard to passenger vehicles.
• Such an embodiment relates as much to the tires as to the tracks, the tread then coming to cover the tread of the tire which can be used without the said tread according to the invention.
• These embodiments according to the invention are more particularly suited to basic structures of displacement assistance devices having low structural rigidity. More particularly still, a tread according to the invention is provided for producing a movement aid device intended for a heavy vehicle whose inflation pressure of said movement aid device is less than 0.3 b.
• Other details and advantageous characteristics of the invention will emerge from the description of the tests carried out and described below. The tests carried out were of two types.
• the tires are produced according to the invention and comprise a tread having radially on the outside a layer of
• the results obtained with the tires according to the invention have shown that the pressure remains below 0.4 b over the entire axial width of the tread, which is entirely satisfactory for the intended applications.
• the second tests were carried out by passing the vehicles over circular sensors, of the stud type, having a height of 30 mm.
• the sensors detected a mass varying from 200 to 350 kg depending on whether they were placed in the center of the tread or at shoulder level in the case of the tires of the reference vehicle.
• the load measured by the sensors was less than 80 kg over the entire axial width of the tread.
• the tread of the tire, or of a device for assisting movement, thus defined according to the invention allows a better homogeneity of the pressure in the area of the contact area and allows a reduction of the risks of local increase. pressure in the event of irregularities on the ground and therefore makes it possible to use vehicles by reducing the risks of soil degradation, in particular by crushing.

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