Yokohama Announces New Design Technologies

(Akron/Tire Review) Yokohama Rubber Co. announced that it has developed new, third-generation tyre design technologies. The manufacturer’s “multiscale simulation” and “multi-performance map” display information for optimal design proposals, it said.

Multiscale simulation allows for predictions of physical properties based on combinations of compounds and frictional coefficients, Yokohama said. “As a result, we can make more realistic performance predictions for vehicles based on more accurate wear forecasts of front and rear tires and other factors,” said the tyremaker.

The multi-performance map computes optimal solutions and resulting design information and displays the data on a map, according to Yokohama. “This makes it easy, from the design concept stage, to identify an optimal balance of riding comfort, safe control, and low noise when comfort is optimised,” the company commented.

“The new technologies provide significantly greater range and accuracy in tire design and enable the creation of tires offering a sophisticated balance of such factors as riding comfort, stable handling, and minimal noise and vibration,” according to Yokohama.