The invention relates to a tire with radial carcass reinforcement, made up of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself radially capped by a tread, the said tread being connected to two beads via two side walls, the said tire comprising a first layer of polymer compound radially between the carcass reinforcement and the radially innermost layer of reinforcing elements of the crown reinforcement. According to the invention, the said first layer of polymer compound constitutes a buffer zone designed to trap oxygen on the outside of the said first layer, the axial width of the said first layer being at least equal to 70% of the width of the radially innermost layer of reinforcing elements of the crown reinforcement.

A pneumatic tire includes: a tread portion; and a sound suppressor extending in a tire circumferential direction over an entire circumference of a tire inner peripheral surface of the tread portion. The sound suppressor includes: a porous part attached to the tire inner peripheral surface of the tread portion; and a thin film part laminated inside in a tire radial direction of the porous part and facing a tire inner cavity. The thin film part is a non-porous material, and formed with a plurality of through holes.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements, crossed from one layer to the other making with the circumferential direction angles comprised between 10 and 45. A first layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement, the said first layer S of polymer compound extending axially as far as at least the axial end of the tread and the complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle, of the first layer S of polymer compound is greater than 1.35 MPa.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements, crossed from one layer to the other making with the circumferential direction angles comprised between 10 and 45. A first layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement, the first layer S of polymer compound extending axially as far as at least the axial end of the tread, the first layer S of compound polymer compound is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z greater than or equal to 65 and a maximum tan() value, denoted tan()max, less than 0.100 and its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle is greater than 1.35 MPa.

The environmental footprint of a tire for a construction plant vehicle is improved. To do so, the elastomer compounds derived from non-fossil resources represent a mass content greater than or equal to 65% of the total mass of the compounds of the tire, at least 75% of the total mass of the compounds of the tire is made up of elastomer compounds each of which has a viscoelastic loss, measured in terms of tan(), less than or equal to 0.065, and an electrical resistivity greater than or equal to 1E+10 .Math.cm.

The invention relates to a tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers each formed of reinforcing elements inserted between skim layers of rubber compound, a first layer S of polymer compound being in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement and the crown reinforcement comprising at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. In accordance with the invention, the elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of at least one skim layer of at least one working crown layer is less than 8.5 MPa, the maximum value of tan(), denoted tan()max of the said at least one skim layer of at least one working crown layer is less than 0.100, and the complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle, of the said first layer S of polymer compound is greater than 1.35 MPa.

Polybenzoxazine comprises repeat units which comprise at least one unit corresponding to the formulae (I) or (II):

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in which Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2, which are identical or different, represent an at least divalent, aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic bonding group comprising at least one carbon atom and optionally at least one heteroatom selected from O, S, N and P. Such a polybenzoxazine may be used as a metal-adhesive layer, in particular for the adhesive bonding of a metal substrate, in particular made of carbon steel, to a rubber.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement comprising two working crown layers having unequal axial widths. Layer C of rubber compound is placed between ends of the working crown layers. Second layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and the carcass reinforcement, which comprises a layer of circumferential reinforcing elements arranged radially between two working crown layers. Distance d between the end of the axially narrowest working layer and the working layer separated from it by layer C is 1.1<d<2.2, being the diameter of the reinforcing elements, in a meridian plane. Second layer S is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z65 and a maximum tan() value less than 0.100. Its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle is greater than 1.35 MPa.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers each being formed of reinforcing elements inserted between two skim layers of rubber compound, a first layer S of polymer compound being in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement and the crown reinforcement comprising at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. The elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of at least one skim layer of at least one working crown layer is greater than 9 MPa, the maximum value of tan(), denoted tan()max, of the at least one skim layer of at least one working crown layer is less than 0.100 and the complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle, of the first layer S of polymer compound is greater than 1.35 MPa.

A rubber composition has an improved rolling resistance and is based on at least a diene elastomer comprising mainly at least one isoprene elastomer; a reinforcing filler comprising from 5 to 60 phr of carbon black having a BET specific surface area of less than 70 m.sup.2/g, termed coarse carbon black, and from 10 to 30 phr of carbon black having a BET specific surface area of greater than or equal to 70 m.sup.2/g, termed fine carbon black; a salt of an alkali, alkaline-earth or lanthanide metal; and a crosslinking system.