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Falken Tyre\u2019s latest offering in passenger car winter tyres has been inspired by the unusual combination of astrophysics and origami techniques.<\/p>\nFalken Tyre\u2019s latest offering in passenger car winter tyres has been inspired by the unusual combination of astrophysics and origami techniques.<\/p>\n
Designers working on Falken\u2019s new EUROWINTER HS01 tyre were intrigued by the folding pattern that astrophysicist and part-time origami enthusiast Koryo Miura created for stowing large solar panels into compact payload bays for satellite launches.<\/p>\n
If you partially unfold a sheet of paper \u2013 or indeed a solar array \u2013 that\u2019s been creased using Miura-san\u2019s design, then you end up with a 3D structure of crooked valleys snaking across the page. It\u2019s this shape that has inspired the design of the sipes in Falken\u2019s new winter tyres.
\nTraditional sipes are cut in straight lines or two-dimensional zig zags. Yet making too many incisions can start to reduce the rigidity of the tread blocks, compromising some features such as steering response and rolling resistance. However, the complex ridge and valley shape of the Miura pattern only allows a certain degree of distortion before they interlock to improve rigidity.<\/p>\n
With this, Falken claims that the EUROWINTER HS01 boasts a five per cent improvement in snow and wet weather handling, and a ten per cent improvement in aquaplaning resistance when compared to its predecessor. The Miura sipes and tread pattern design ensures excellent steering response and directional stability.<\/p>\n
The EUROWINTER HS01 also features a special pattern design, \u2018Adaptive Constant Pressure\u2019, following a constant radius like circle to improve feedback. This also makes the tyre behave in a more consistent manner at varying speeds to boost dry weather handling by five per cent.<\/p>\n
The tyre\u2019s compound benefits from Falken\u2019s 4D Nano Design Technology. Utilising the power of one of the world\u2019s top supercomputers, this optimises the tyre\u2019s compound properties at the nano-scale for improvements in wear and tyre performance. The result is a specially-optimised winter compound with a tread that remains pliable and maintains high levels of adhesion at lower temperatures.<\/p>\n
The origami-inspired tyre is available in speed ratings of up to W (168 mph) and diameters of up to 20 inches, which still boasts a B or C rating for wet braking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Falken Tyre\u2019s latest offering in passenger car winter tyres has been inspired by the unusual combination of astrophysics and origami techniques. Designers working on Falken\u2019s new EUROWINTER HS01 tyre were intrigued by the folding pattern that astrophysicist and part-time origami enthusiast Koryo Miura created for stowing large solar panels into compact payload bays for satellite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,59,1,751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-falken","category-news","category-product-news"],"yoast_head":"\n