The tire comprises a crown reinforcing zone comprising a ply of strips, each forming an angle of less than or equal to 10° with the circumferential direction. Each reinforcing strip is formed by a laminate made up of n inner composite layers comprising low-modulus oriented fibres parallel to each other, the angle of which with the circumferential direction is, in absolute terms, less than or equal to 10°, together with m outer composite layers on either side of the inner composite layers, comprising high-modulus oriented fibres parallel to each other, the angle of which with the circumferential direction is, in absolute terms, strictly greater than 10°. The high- and low-modulus fibres are coated with a polymer matrix.

A pneumatic tire includes a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead portions, and a circumferential tread having a plurality of circumferential ribs and a plurality of circumferential grooves. A reinforcing layer is disposed in at least one of the plurality of circumferential ribs. No part of the reinforcing layer extends directly below a bottom surface of any of the plurality of circumferential grooves. The reinforcing layer has a consistent gauge along its entire lateral width. A top surface of the reinforcing layer is located radially higher than the bottom surface of each of the plurality of circumferential grooves.

A pneumatic tire includes a band-shaped sound absorbing member bonded along a tire circumferential direction to the tire inner surface in a tread portion; at least one full cover layer covering the entire width of belt layers on the outer circumferential side of the belt layers; and a center cover layer disposed on the outer circumferential side of the full cover layer, the center cover layer locally covering the tire lateral direction center region of the belt layers; a width SW of the band-shaped sound absorbing member and a width BW of the belt layers satisfying a relationship SW/BW=0.3 to 0.8, and a width CW of the center cover layer and the width SW of the band-shaped sound absorbing member satisfying the relationship CW/SW=0.05 to 0.35.

A pneumatic tire 10 includes a pair of bead cores 12A, a carcass 18, a belt layer, and a reinforcing layer 30. The carcass 18 is formed spanning between the pair of bead cores 12A. The belt layer includes an annular resin main body 12B that is disposed at a tire diameter direction inner side of the carcass 18 and is formed of resin, and reinforcing cords 12A that extend in a tire circumference direction, are arrayed to be spaced apart in a tire width direction, and are embedded in the resin main body 12A. The reinforcing layer 30 is disposed at the tire diameter direction inner side of the belt layer, and includes fiber cords 32 that extend at an angle of at most ±45° relative to the tire width direction.

The present disclosure is directed to textile cords covered with a rubber composition of specified composition, tires having at least one component comprising the rubber-covered textile cords, and related methods for increasing aged cord coverage of rubber-covered textile cords and for preparing the rubber-covered textile cords. The rubber composition of specified composition includes silica filler in an amount of up to 20 phr and silane coupling agent in an amount of up to 5 phr.

The invention relates to a reinforcement cord for elastomeric products, in particular for pneumatic tires, comprising at least one yarn made of filaments.

The invention further relates to an elastomeric product comprising at least one reinforcement cord.

For protection of the environment and conservation of resources, together with good processing performance, at least one yarn of the reinforcement cord comprises filaments made of polybutylene dicarboxyfuranoate (PBF), where the PBF has been produced entirely or at least to some extent from biomass and/or from renewable raw materials.

A resin-covered cord including n number of individual cords, disposed so as to be mutually spaced apart from each other, a covering resin that covers the cords, and an adhesive resin that is disposed between the cords and the covering resin and that has a greater tensile elastic modulus than the covering resin. Equation (1) below is satisfied, in which A is a total value of a width direction dimension of a portion where the cords and the adhesive resin are disposed, and B is a maximum value of a thickness direction dimension.

B<(A/n) (n≥1)  Equation (1)

Reinforcing fibers containing hydrophilic fibers and an adhesive component, wherein at least a part of the surfaces of the hydrophilic fibers have the adhesive component, the adhesive component contains a modified conjugated diene rubber having a hydrogen-bonding functional group in a part of the conjugated diene rubber, and the number of the hydrogen-bonding functional groups in the modified conjugated diene rubber is 2 to 150 per molecule on average; a method for producing the reinforcing fibers; and a molded article using the reinforcing fibers.

This invention relates to a passenger car tire comprising a carcass having at least one carcass ply, a tread disposed radially outward of a crown region of the carcass, a belt with a plurality of belt plies arranged between the carcass and the tread, and an overlay structure covering the belt and comprising a helically wound overlay ply strip reinforced by at least one textile cord. The cord comprises from 6 to 10 polyamide monofilament plies having each a density from 300 to 470 dtex, wherein the monofilament plies are twisted together by between 1 and 2 twists per inch to form the cord.

A reinforcement structure for a polymer ply includes a plurality of flat woven cords. Each flat woven cord has a width between 0.5 mm and 1.6 mm and a thickness between 0.2 mm and 0.8 mm thereby producing the reinforcement structure with an overall width between 25.0 mm and 26.0 mm. Each flat woven cord includes materials with melting points between 130° C. and 230° C.