WO2010000789A1 - Vehicle tyre - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a vehicle tyre with a cavity enclosed by a tread strip supporting the tread and sidewalls adjacent to this on both sides, each with a bead disposed at the free end to fit around the flange of the rim of a wheel and with a foam insert connected to the inside of the tread strip, partly filling the cavity and serving a damping function, particularly in a frequency range below 400 Hz.
- Vehicle tyres of this type for vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers are also referred to as pneumatic vehicle tyres.
- These vehicle tyres are hollow chamber tyres, which are crucially dependent on the air pressure introduced into the cavity for their stability.
- the cavity of this sort of vehicle tyre is formed by a tread strip supporting the tread with integrally moulded sidewalls at both sides.
- the sidewalls each have a bead at their free ends, with which the tyre mounted on a wheel rim is adjacent to the rim well and also to a rim flange. In tubeless tyres, the bead is sealed to the rim flange or rim well.
- the cavity provided by the vehicle tyre is closed by the rim.
- the foam material used in the foam insert described in DE 30 42 350 A1 for damping is a non-visco-elastic foam material, for example a cross-linked polyurethane foam.
- the foam used may have a density of between 35 and 300 kg/m 3 , a foam with a density of 100 kg/m 3 is evidently preferred to achieve damping.
- inorganic fillers may be added to the foam. This sort of foam insert can achieve damping in the frequency range above 500 Hz.
- EP 0 367 556 A2 discloses a pneumatic tyre with a porous damping layer of uniform thickness disposed over the entire inside of the pneumatic tyre.
- An essential element of this layer of foam is that the mean pore dimension must not exceed 10 ⁇ m, while a layer thickness of 4 to 10 mm is anticipated.
- the pores in this layer of foam should be no less than 20% open.
- An expanded rubber material is used as the material and applied to an airtight layer, preferably of the same material, on the inside of the tyre.
- the frequency spectrum achieved with this tyre displays characteristic peaks in the frequency range below 300 Hz. Such peaks in the frequency spectrum are not desirable, as they can frequently be heard as a single tone.
- the damping according to EP 0 367 556 A2 it is important to pay attention when fitting the tyre onto and, conversely, dismantling it from the rim, that the foam layer is not damaged, particularly close to the beads.
- EP 0 870 631 A2 discloses a vehicle wheel with a layer of foam damping tread vibrations. This may be an open-cell polyether foam or a visco- elastic polyurethane foam. Further details of the nature and quality of the foam in this document are not disclosed.
- the cavity of the vehicle tyre is preferably mostly filled with the foam filling.
- EP 1 659 004 A1 achieving noise damping in tyres requires the foam insert to fill no more than 20% of the tyre cavity.
- an object of the invention to sug- gest an elastic vehicle tyre (pneumatic tyre) of the kind initially mentioned, so that it has a foam insert optimised in relation to damping.
- This pneumatic tyre preferably has a foam insert with which the removal of heat from the tread or tread strip of the tyre is also improved.
- the compression of the foam insert is used to achieve a graded pore volume across the thickness of the foam insert with the vehicle tyre rotating.
- This compression is influenced by, among other things, the density of the foam in the foam insert, which surprisingly therefore also has an effect on the problems outlined above.
- Foams with densities of more than 80 kg/m 3 not only contribute dimensionally to the weight of the vehicle tyre, but also have a detrimental effect on the functions described earlier.
- the foam used should have a density of over 30 kg/m 3 .
- the density of the foam used is preferably between 35 kg/m 3 and 60 kg/m 3 , particularly between 40 kg/m 3 and 55 kg/m 3 .
- the foam insert must evidently display a clear volume weight.
- the compressive set of the foam used in the foam insert it is necessary for the compressive set of the foam used in the foam insert to be neither too low nor too high. At values both below and also above the aforementioned compressive set, the prescribed functions can be affected.
- the compressive set of the foam or foam part the residual deformation with 90% compression according to ISO 1856/A M1 is used. This should be less than 5% and preferably less than 2.5% and even more preferably less than 2%.
- the foam of the non-rotating foam insert preferably has a tensile force:elongation ratio measured according to ISO 1798 M1 of between 1 :1.7 and 1 :1.3, particularly between 1 :1.25 and 1 :1 .29.
- This variable can describe the degree of elongation when a given tensile strength is applied and therefore the stiffness of the foam. If the foam is too stiff and therefore displays a ratio of less than 1 :1.7, losses must be accepted in relation to the desired damping. Conversely, if the stiffness of the foam displays a ratio greater than 1 :1.3, this is too soft. Consequently, the stiffness of the foam or the foam part is also responsible for the damping performance.
- the foam insert is an open-cell, visco-elastic foam part, wherein the surface of the foam in- sert facing the cavity has an at least partly open-cell structure and the size of the pores drops towards the inside of the tread strip for damping purposes.
- a vehicle tyre fitted with this sort of foam insert in particular when showing the physical properties described above not only displays better structure-borne sound damping in the lower frequency range and particularly in the frequency range from 200 to 250 Hz, but it is characterised by a lower running noise overall.
- the improved properties involve an unexpectedly effective damping in the inside of the vehicle, with the result that sound pressure peaks are avoided in the lower frequency range, but at least are reduced not insignificantly compared with the prior art vehicle tyre.
- This sort of foam insert combines the desired damping through absorption with effective structure-borne damping.
- a foam insert of this type is preferably designed using a visco-elastic foam, wherein the material properties of the foam insert are adapted such that the centrifugal force acting on the foam insert as a result of the rotation of the foam insert combined with the rotating vehicle tyre causes the foam insert to be compressed between the inside of the tread and the cavity.
- This sort of foam part is not only far simpler to produce compared with a foam part with pores graded in size, even in the unloaded state, but the visco-elasticity means that a particularly good damping performance is achieved too, particularly one that is adapted to the different damping necessary depending on speed. At higher rotational speeds, the foam part is compressed towards the inside of the tread strip to a greater extent than at lower rotational speeds.
- the foam insert is also connected to the inner wall of the vehicle tyre.
- Using the centrifugal force that occurs during rotation of the foam insert with the vehicle tyre produces the desired pore space graduation, with the pore size diminishing towards the inner wall of the vehicle tyre's tread strip.
- open-cell used in the context of this information means that all pores in the foam are preferably open pores (cells), and if not all pores are open-cell pores at least the vast majority of them.
- This foam structure combined with the preferably visco-elastic material property of the foam insert has an influence on the effective damping of the tyre parts caused to vibrate by the rolling of the tyre. It is assumed that a transmission of the parts caused to vibrate by the vehicle tyre during rolling to the air column located within the tyre is only passed on dampened, if at all.
- the open porosity of the foam in the foam insert has the added advantage that the heat can be more effectively removed from the tread strip through the path of the open pores in the foam than in a closed-pore foam. The heat removal is further supported by the fact that the vibrations induced in the foam insert cause a certain amount of air to be pressed out on the inside of the foam insert, so that heat is likewise thereby transported from the tread strip into the tyre cavity.
- the tyre cavity is at least 20% filled by the foam insert. However, a filling level of 70% should not be exceeded.
- a preferable embodiment is one in which the tyre cavity is no more than 50% filled by the foam insert. It has been shown that filling the tyre cavity to more than 70% can result in other detrimental influences.
- the foam insert does not display sidewall expansions extending along the tyre's sidewalls.
- the foam insert follows the contour of the inside of the vehicle tyre, at least up to a section of the sidewalls. This pro- motes damping of sidewall vibrations in the tyre.
- the thickness of the foam insert close to the tread strip is typically greater than in the adjacent sidewall areas, in which the foam insert typically thins out as it goes towards the bead of the sidewalls.
- the sidewall sections of this sort of foam insert preferably end at a sufficient distance from the bead, so that the foam insert is not damaged when the vehicle tyre is fitted to and/or dismantled from the rim of a wheel.
- At least one heat dissipation insert is disposed partially extending over the width of the tread strip, which starts from the inside of the vehicle tyre close to the tread strip to remove heat from this area and extends towards the sidewalls, in which area the heat removed from the inside of the tread strip can radiate from the heat dissipation insert into the cavity.
- This area may also be referred to as the radiation area.
- the heat dissipation insert has good thermal conductivity.
- metal is preferably made from metal and may be a metal grid or metal mesh, for ex- ample.
- the advantage of a metal grid or metal mesh being provided is that the apertures or openings contained therein can be used to press or fix the heat dissipation insert with the foam of the foam insert to the inside of the vehicle tyre, if the heat dissipation insert is located at the interface between the foam insert and the inside of the tyre.
- the attachment of the foam insert to the inside of the vehicle tyre preferably comes about without using an additional adhesive, simply by the adhesive forces of the foam.
- This attachment process of the foam insert to the inside of the vehicle tyre can be supported by free vulcanisation valences of the inside of the vehicle tyre being incorporated in the attachment process or in the cross- linking process of the foam in the foam insert.
- This sort of heat dissipation insert preferably has a relatively large contact surface with the inside of the tyre, particularly close to the inside of the tread strip. This can be achieved, for example, by a metal grid in which the individual links have an essentially uncurved surface on at least one side.
- the cross-sectional area of the links in this type of metal grid are of such dimensions that the heat needing to be dissipated can be removed from the inside of the tread strip as it occurs.
- the heat dissipation insert extends at least in sections along the sidewalls, at least along one sidewall and may be conducted towards the bead. It is essential for the heat dissipation insert to extend into an area in which the heat dissipated from the tread strip can radiate into the remaining cavity within the vehicle tyre. Ra- diation is possible if the heat dissipation insert extends, for example across and beyond the side limit of the foam insert. Effective radiation is also possible if the foam insert is only thin in the area of the anticipated heat radiation and the heat can therefore automatically radiate through the foam insert into the tyre cavity.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic cross-section through a vehicle tyre mounted on the rim of a wheel in accordance with a first exemplary embodiment
- Fig. 2 shows a graph depicting the frequency spectrum resulting from the rolling of the tyre in Figure 1 , compared with that of a traditional tyre;
- Fig. 3 shows a graph depicting the loss factor plotted against the temperature and expressed as tan ⁇
- Fig. 4a, 4b show graphs depicting the mechanical damping behaviour of a foam insert between two layers with 70% compression (Figure 4a) and with 20% compression (Figure 4b) and
- Fig. 5 shows a depiction corresponding to that in Figure 1 in accordance with a further exemplary embodiment.
- a vehicle tyre 1 made from rubber or a rubber compound has a tread strip 2, the outside of which forms the tread 3 of the vehicle tyre 1.
- Two side walls 4, 4.1 are moulded onto the tread strip 2.
- the sidewalls 4, 4.1 have a bead at each end.
- the vehicle tyre 1 is depicted without a reinforcement or carcass.
- the bead core contained in the beads 5, 5.1 is not shown.
- the vehicle tyre 1 as illustrated in Figure 1 , is mounted on the rim 6 of a wheel 7.
- the beads 5, 5.1 rest on the rim well and are pressed with their beads 5, 5.1 against the adjacent rim flange 8, 8.1 by the internal tyre pressure.
- a foam insert Disposed in the vehicle tyre 1 is a foam insert identified as a whole by reference number 9.
- the foam insert 9 is adhered to the inside 10 of the tread strip 2 and the insides of the sidewalls 4, 4.1.
- the foam insert 9 connected to the vehicle tyre 1 rotates with it.
- the foam insert 9 roughly 30% fills the cavity 1 1 of the vehicle tyre 1 created by the tread strip 2 and the sidewalls 4, 4.1.
- the foam insert 9 follows the inner contour of the vehi- cle tyre 1 , wherein it is envisaged that the thickness of the foam insert 9 is greater close to the tread strip 2 than in the adjacent sidewall sections 12, 12.1 , where the foam insert 9 thins out towards the beads 5, 5.1.
- the transition from the thicker base section 13 of the foam insert 9 close to the tread strip 2 to the sidewall sections 12, 12.1 and the peripheral ends of the foam insert 9 is continuous.
- the sidewall sections 12, 12.1 therefore run parallel at least in part or are tilted at a slight angle to the inner surface of the vehicle tyre 1.
- the foam insert 9 is used to dampen the resonances of the enclosed air volume, combined with a high damping capacity in a frequency range of under 400 HZ and particularly in a frequency range of between 200 and
- the geometry of the foam insert 9 shown with its base section 13 and the sidewall sections 12, 12.1 makes it clear that vibration damping in the elastic vehicle tyre 1 takes place not only close to the tread strip 2, but also close to the sidewalls 4, 4.1.
- the foam insert 9 is therefore U-shaped overall.
- the synthetic mass used to create the foam insert 9 is inserted into the vehicle tyre 1 while the tyre 1 is turning before being expanded.
- the liquid plastic has been applied close to the transition between the beads 5, 5.1 and the adjacent sidewalls 4, 4.1 , so that it spreads from the point of ap- plication due to the rotation of the vehicle tyre 1 towards the tread strip 2.
- the liquid plastic may be expedient for the liquid plastic to be added close to the inside of the tread strip 2 too.
- the foam becomes con- nected to the inside of the vehicle tyre 1.
- the foam used to create the foam insert 9 is open-cell and has visco- elastic material properties.
- the surface O of the foam insert 9 facing the cavity 1 1 is characterised by the typical open-cell structure of the foam. This means that the surface O is not smooth, but displays a correspondingly structured surface through the pores truncated at this surface O. This serves sound absorption in particular.
- the physical properties of the foam used to create the foam insert 9 are contained in the following table.
- the foam used to produce the foam insert 9 is indicated in the following table under "Example”:
- the stress relaxation measurements were carried out during a rapid compression of the foam being tested and the force required for the necessary compression (in this case 40%) was determined.
- the force required in order to bring about a 40% compression (CDH 40% after 0 sec (0")) was firstly determined. 180 seconds later, the same procedure was carried out to determine the forced needed to achieve 40% compression (CDH 40% after 180 sec (180”)).
- the ratio between these values is a measure of the stress relaxation, while the force required to bring about a 40% compression after 0 seconds is a measure of the CDH hardness.
- the other stress relaxation values which are given as a unit in percent, reflect the ratio compared with the first force measurement (CDH 40% after 0") in each case.
- the visco-elasticity value which has been determined through the set compression value of 90%, reflects the deformation rate that has occurred after the test specimen has been subject to compression of its original height to the residual height of 10%, once the compression loading has ended.
- Particularly good sound-damping properties are achieved using a visco-elastic foam, in which the residual deformation is less than 5% in accordance with the test method ISO 1856/A M1.
- the tests conducted have shown that particularly good damping results can be achieved if this value is ⁇ 2.5 and particularly ⁇ 2 %.
- the visco-elastic performance of this foam is virtually constant at temperatures above 2 to 3 5 C up to temperatures of 70 to 80 5 C.
- the foam in the foam insert 9 of the exemplary embodiment illustrated is therefore suitable for equipping summer tyres.
- To equip winter tyres, which are especially driven at temperatures below 0 5 C a foam with the same or virtually the same physical properties but with a different chemistry is used.
- FIG 2 shows a graph depicting the sound pressure occurring in the in- side of a vehicle from a vehicle tyre equipped with a foam insert with the aforementioned properties.
- the frequency spectrum of this vehicle tyre is compared with the frequency spectrum of a traditional tyre, as shown in Figure 3 of EP 0 367 556 A2, for example.
- the comparison clearly shows that the vehicle tyre fitted with the foam insert according to the invention displays a clearly improved damping performance in the frequency spectrum below 500 Hz.
- the proportion of the frequency spectrum in traditional tyres that can otherwise be heard as a single tone at a frequency of roughly 220 Hz is so far reduced that this peak is no longer discernible and cannot be detected as a single tone inside a vehicle.
- Fur- thermore there is also a clear improvement in the frequency range between 100 and 150 Hz.
- the loss factor is depicted as tan ⁇ (tan delta) against the temperature.
- the loss factor is preferably higher than 0.3, in the exemplary embodiment shown it is around 0.4 and is in any event lower than 0.8 and in the temperature range envisaged for use of the vehicle tyre 1 , it is no lower than the 0.2 value or only by a negligible amount.
- the tan ⁇ is defined in accor- dance with ISO 6721 -1 and determined accordingly. The measurements were performed using a mechanical dynamic analyser made by TA Instruments and known per se.
- Figures 4a, 4b each show a graph from which the frequency-dependent damping behaviour of the foam used as the "Example” in the aforementioned table to create the foam insert 9 is illustrated. These graphs depict the foam characterised as the "Example” in each case and a traditional foam with non-visco-elastic properties, as described earlier.
- the centrifugal force acting on the foam insert 9 causes the foam insert to be compressed, or specifically graded, towards the inside 10 of the tread strip 2 and as the distance from the inner surface O grows, the compression due to the greater mass exposed to the centrifugal force in each case increases towards the inside 10 of the tread strip 2.
- FIG 4a shows the damping performance of the foam used to create the foam insert 9 at 70% compression.
- This compression is the maximum compression for the foam in the foam insert 9 when the vehicle tyre 1 turns at high speed. Consequently, this compression is in the peripheral area of the foam insert 9 on the inside 10 of the tread strip 2.
- the frequency (Hz) is plotted on the x-axis of the graphs in Figures 4a, 4b.
- the damping per- formance is plotted on the y-axis, with positive values representing damping and negative values representing reinforcement of the induced vibrations.
- Figure 4a shows that in the maximum compression range (here: 70%), particularly good damping is achieved in the frequency range of roughly 225 Hz which is viewed as critical. Vibrations in the tyre walls in particular are damped by this damping. This damping is also responsible for the fact that in the graph in Figure 2 the measured sound pressure in this very frequency range is significantly reduced compared with a tyre with no foam insert.
- the graph in Figure 4a shows no damping in the frequency range 300 to 350 Hz. This is non-critical, since on the one hand these frequencies are not tyre-sensitive frequencies (cf. Figure 2) and, on the other, these fre- quencies are absorbed by the foam insert area compressed successively smaller towards the cavity 1 1.
- Figure 4b shows the damping performance of the foam insert in the 20% compression range. With the foam according to the invention, good damping is evident in the frequency range above 210 Hz and also particularly in the interesting range above 225 Hz. Conventional foam displays no damp- ing in the 225 Hz frequency range.
- FIG. 4b Clearly evident in Figure 4b is the vibration increase of the traditional foam in a foam insert plotted in Figure 4b for comparison purposes, which suggests a negative effect on the damping of the peak found in Figure 2 at 120 Hz.
- the U-shaped embodiment of the foam insert 9 with its sidewall sections 12, 12.1 has a positive effect on the damping of wall vibrations in the vehicle tyre 1.
- shear stress builds within the sidewall sections 12, 12.1 , since the foam insert is connected to the inner wall of the vehicle tyre 1.
- FIG. 5 shows another vehicle tyre 14, which is built in the same way in principle as the vehicle tyre in Figure 1.
- this vehicle 14 is also equipped with a heat dissipation insert 16.
- the purpose of the heat dissipation insert 16 is to remove heat generated by the rolling of the vehicle tyre 1 close to the tread strip 17 from the latter, in or- der to reduce wear on the tread 18.
- the heat dissipation insert 16 in the exemplary embodiment depicted is designed as a metal grid, made from brass or aluminium for example.
- the individual links of the metal grid are rectangular in cross-section.
- the surfaces facing the inside of the vehicle tyre 14 are largely adjacent to the inside of the vehicle tyre 14 with their entire surface.
- the heat dissipation insert 16 extends from the inside of the tread strip 17 along the sidewalls 19, 19.1 into an area in which the heat removed from the tread strip 17 can radiate into the cavity 20 of the vehicle tyre 14.
- the foam insert 15 thins out towards the beads in the area of its sidewall sections and the heat dissipation insert 16 is extended across the end of the foam insert 15, the radiation area is formed by the section of the heat dissipation insert 16 that projects out of the foam insert 15.
- the end area of the sidewall sections of the foam insert 15, in which these are relatively thin creates an area in which heat is radiated from the heat dissipation insert 16 into the cavity 20.
- the radiation area is identified in Figure 4 in relation to the sidewall 19 using reference number 21.
- the heat dissipation insert 16 is attached to the inside of the vehicle tyre 14 in the exemplary embodiment illustrated by the foam of the foam insert 15, which goes through the holes in the metal grid. If the method described in relation to vehicle tyre 1 is used to incorporate the foam insert 15 into the vehicle tyre 14, the heat dissipation insert 16 is inserted before the liquid plastic is added to the tyre 14. This is preferably under a certain pre-stress against the inside of the vehicle tyre 14, which serves to fix the heat dissipation insert 16 until the foam insert 15 has hardened and is connected to the inside of the vehicle tyre 14.
- the heat dissipation insert described which is described as a metal grid
- this may also be in the form of a film, for example a metallised film.
- the heat dissipation insert channels heat away from the tread strip area of the vehicle tyre towards the sidewalls and the heat is diverted into the cavity remaining in the vehicle tyre and/or into the rim.
- the latter applies when the heat dissipation insert is conducted up to the area of a bead of the pneumatic tyre, namely until the heat dissipation insert lies against the wheel rim when a tyre is fitted to a wheel rim and is therefore trapped between the bead and the rim.
- a heat dissipation insert may for example also be created by an airtight elastic film with correspondingly good heat conductivity, which is disposed between the foam insert and the inner wall of the vehicle tyre.
- the film should be equipped with such elasticity and/or the forces bonding this film to the inner wall of the vehicle tyre should be such that a foreign body penetrating the tyre from outside, such as a nail, for example, causes the film to be lifted from the inner wall of the vehicle tyre, but this object does not pierce the film. Consequently, with this sort of vehicle tyre the risk of air being lost due to objects penetrating from outside is reduced. It is likewise possible in principle for this sort of film or insert to be used without performing a compelling heat dissipation function.
- the foam insert may preferably contain phase-transition material in microcapsule form - so-called latent heat storage material.
- phase-transition material in microcapsule form - so-called latent heat storage material.
- phase-transition material in the foam insert of a vehicle tyre serves to buffer temperature peaks during driving in relation to tyre warming.
- a material that is adapted to the maximum tyre running pressure to be tolerated in each case or else one with a phase-transition temperature that lies at this temperature is therefore used as the phase-transition material.
- the phase-transition material is advantageously located in the peripheral area of the foam insert adjacent to the inside of the tread strip. Wax or paraffin is preferably used as the phase-transition material in relation to the application described above in foam inserts for vehicle tyres; these are above all suitable in relation to heat storage in the temperature field under consideration.
- phase-transition materials can also easily be used in the foam, said materials having a phase-transition temperature that differs in each case.
- a foam insert is likewise advantageous with regard to the emergency properties of the vehicle tyre.
- the foam insert grants a certain support in the case of air loss, so that a vehicle tyre equipped in this way can still be driven over a certain distance at slow speed.
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