Provided is a pneumatic tire. A belt cover layer including organic fiber cords spirally wound along the tire circumferential direction is provided on the outer circumferential side of a belt layer in a tread portion. The belt cover layer includes at least one full cover layer covering the entire width direction of the belt layer, and the number of layers in the shoulder region is two or less. Polyethylene terephthalate fiber cords of which the elastic modulus at a load of 2.0 cN/dtex at 100° C. is in a range of 3.5 cN/(tex•%) to 5.5 cN/(tex•%) are used as the organic fiber cords constituting the belt cover layer. The ratio Sh/Ce of a rising amount Sh in the shoulder region and a rising amount Ce at a tire equator position during traveling at 240 km/h is 0.85 to 1.15.

The present invention relates to a polyester tire cord made of polyester yarn and having a 5% LASE of 1.2 g/d or more as measured according to ASTM D885 at 80° C., a 5% LASE of 1.0 g/d or more as measured according to ASTM D885 at 120° C., and a toughness retention rate of 65% or more at 80° C. and 120° C. The tire cord of the present invention has a modulus comparable to that of rayon even in a high-temperature environment at 120° C. or higher, and has excellent dimensional stability and heat resistance, and thus it can be advantageously applied to a high-performance tire.

A tire includes a carcass, a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass, a sidewall including a shoulder extends toward the tread, and a reinforcing structure positioned radially between the carcass and the tread. The reinforcing structure includes a plurality of belts extending axially toward the shoulder and an overlapping spiral wound strip positioned at a radially outermost portion of the reinforcing structure. The overlapping spiral wound strip includes a uniform width having groups of four first cords with a single second cord therebetween. The first cords include a hybrid construction and the second cords include a single material construction.

A pneumatic tire includes a ply having a plurality of cords each having an average cord diameter D, and a sidewall rubber having a loss tangent tan δ The plurality of cords each includes a plurality of filaments twisted together, the plurality of filaments each having an outer diameter d. The plurality of cords each has a ratio D/d of the average cord diameter D to the outer diameter d being equal to or more than 28. The ratio D/d and the loss tangent tan δ of the sidewall rubber satisfy the following formula;

(tan δ)/(D/d)*1000≤5.5.

The present invention is directed to a non-vulcanized rubber composition which is comprised of (1) 90 phr to 100 phr cis 1,4-polyisoprene; (2) 10 phr to 40 phr of pre-silanized precipitated silica; (3) 10 phr to 40 phr of carbon black, (4) 0.1 phr to 5 phr of a cobalt salt, and (5) 1 phr to 15 phr of a resinous reaction product of a methylene donor composition and a methylene acceptor composition. Moreover, the present invention is directed to a tire or tire component comprising the cured rubber composition.

A pneumatic vehicle tire of radial type of construction for utility vehicles, in particular trucks, buses and truck trailers, having a belt which has three or more belt plies (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) with steel cords (10), wherein each steel cord (10) has at least two strands (11) and wherein each strand (11) has at least two steel filaments (12); the invention is characterized in that steel cords (10) of the construction 2 to 4×N, where N=2 to 5, are at least arranged in one of the belt plies (5, 6, 7, 8, 9), wherein this construction means that this steel cord (10) has 2 to 4 twisted-together strands (11), wherein each strand (10) comprises 2 to 5 steel filaments (12) which are twisted together such that these 2 to 5 steel filaments (12) are arranged without a core filament.

A tire includes a belt layer in a tread portion. The belt layer includes at least one belt ply. The belt ply includes a plurality of belt cords including a steel single wire having a flat cross-sectional shape. In at least one of the belt cords, the steel single wire has a short diameter direction inclined at an angle θ of less than 90 degrees with respect to a thickness direction of the belt ply.

A cable as may be used in a tire, including a pneumatic tire. The cable is constructed in a manner that can provide a desired stiffness to a tire as well as a certain amount of structural elongation. The cable can be provided in a manner that does not necessarily result in an increase in the overall weight of the tire as would occur by e.g., increasing the diameter of a conventional cable construction.

A polybenzoxazine sulfide has repeating units including at least one unit corresponding to formula (I) or (II): ##STR00001##
in which the two oxazine rings are connected together via a central aromatic group, the benzene ring of which bears one, two, three or four groups of formula —S.sub.x—R in which “x” is an integer from 1 to 8 and R represents hydrogen or a hydrocarbon-based group including 1 to 10 carbon atoms and optionally a heteroatom chosen from O, S, N and P. Such a polybenzoxazine can be used as an adhesive layer on metal, in particular for the adhesive bonding of a metallic substrate, in particular made of carbon steel, to rubber.

A tire for an agricultural vehicle (1), and in particular the carcass reinforcement (4) thereof, for a tire running at low pressure on loose ground, is to reduce the compaction of the ground and to increase the traction capability by reducing the structural stiffness of the tire. According to the invention, the carcass reinforcement (4) is made up of a single carcass layer (41) having a mean thickness E at most equal to 2 mm and a breaking strength Fr, expressed in daN/cm, that satisfies the relationship:

Fr>=Fs=(Cs*Pmax*10.sup.−3)*((R.sup.2−((R+Rj)/2).sup.2)/2)/Rj, with Fs: reference threshold strength (in daN/cm) Cs: safety factor at least equal to 1, Pmax: recommended maximum inflation pressure (in kPa), R=D/2: outside radius of the tire (in mm), Rj=Dj/2: nominal radius of the rim (in mm).