A pneumatic tire having an increased resistance to punctures. The pneumatic tire may have at least one puncture resistant ply constructed from a fiber reinforcement oriented circumferentially around the tire and providing circumferential reinforcement. The fiber reinforcement may be spirally wound around the carcass of the tire, wherein adjacent edges of the fiber reinforcement may overlap to form a continuous puncture resistant ply across the axial width of a crown portion of the tire. The pneumatic tire may incorporate at least one puncture resistant ply in place of at least one belt to provide both circumferential reinforcement and puncture resistance for the pneumatic tire.

A tire comprises a tread which comprises a plurality of tread pattern elements (1) delimited by cut-outs (3, 4), the tread pattern elements respectively comprising at least one lateral face (13, 14, 15, 16), and a first rubber composition (FC) at least partially covered on at least one of the lateral face (13, 14, 15, 16) with a layer of a second rubber composition (SC) based on an elastomer matrix comprising more than 55 phr and up to 100 phr of a first diene elastomer having a glass transition temperature of less than 25 C. and 0 to less than 45 phr of a second diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising more than 100 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler, and more than 45 phr of a plasticizing agent predominately comprising at least one hydrocarbon resin having a glass transition temperature of more than 20 C.

Provided is a tire including a spiral cord layer formed by spirally winding a reinforcing cord, in which tire the occurrence of uneven wear attributed to the spiral cord layer is suppressed. The tire includes: a carcass (14) which toroidally extends between a pair of bead portions; and a spiral cord layer (1) which is arranged on the tire radial-direction outer side of the carcass in a crown portion and in which an upper layer (1A) and a lower layer (1B) are formed by spirally winding a reinforcing cord. At least one circumferential belt-reinforcing layer (17), whose cord direction is substantially a tire circumferential direction, is arranged on the tire radial-direction outer side of the spiral cord layer, and a tire widthwise length We of the circumferential belt-reinforcing layer is in a range of 40% to 90% of a tire widthwise length Ws of the spiral cord layer.

The present disclosure relates to a tire cord fabric, a method of manufacturing the same, a sheet including the same, and a tire including the sheet, and the tire cord fabric includes a plurality of tire cords which are arranged in parallel to each other, a weft yarn which weaves the tire cords to conduct a weaving operation, and a conductive fiber which comes into contact with the surface of the tire cord and is extended in a longitudinal direction of the tire cord. The tire cord fabric can effectively discharge static electricity aggregated in a tire by mixing a tire cord with a conductive fiber, thereby weaving a mixture of the tire cord and the conductive fiber. Particularly, the tire cord fabric can secure an effective conductive passage since the conductive fiber is extended in a radial direction from bead parts to a tread part as in a carcass cord. Therefore, the tire cord fabric can simultaneously accomplish solving of a static electricity problem and obtaining of a fuel efficiency improving effect through low rolling resistance as a result by decreasing a demand associated with electrical conductivity of a rubber composition for sidewall and a rubber composition for topping, thereby enabling a rubber composition having a low loss modulus (E) for improving rolling resistance to be applied.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a rubber reinforcement material which comprises a fiber substrate, an adhesive layer disposed on the fiber substrate, a rubber compound layer disposed on the adhesive layer, and resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex (RFL), wherein the rubber compound layer has a thickness of 5 m to 200 m.

The present invention relates to a novel tire cord reinforcement made of ultra high modulus aramid fibers which has bi-elastic tensile properties. The cord includes at least two plies, and there is a spacing between the cord plies. The cord twisting improves bending and compression fatigue resistance of the aramid, but at the same time reduces the modulus and strength too.

The present invention provides: a reinforcement member that includes a core material cord layer and a spiral cord layer including a reinforcement cord and arranged outside the core material cord layer, the reinforcement member being capable of improving tire longevity by suppressing breakage of the reinforcement cord due to fretting (wear) between a core material cord and the reinforcement cord; and a tire using the same. Provided are: a reinforcement member (1) that includes a core material layer (2) and a spiral cord layer (3) including a reinforcement cord (3a) spirally wound around the core material layer (2), in which the core material layer (2) includes a plate-like body made of a resin material having a chamfered end portion in a widthwise direction of the reinforcement member (1); and a tire using the same.

A method for securing a flexible member may include forming a bore in a bone; inserting an anchor into the bore, the anchor including a passage and being coupled to a flexible member; slideably positioning a first load distributing member along the flexible member; inserting the first load distributing member into the bore such that the flexible member engages the first load distributing member; and applying tension to a portion of the flexible member to secure the anchor and load distributing member within the bone.

A pneumatic tire includes a reinforcing rubber layer disposed in the sidewall portions and having a crescent-like meridian cross-section; wherein when the tire is assembled on a regular rim and in an unloaded state with an internal pressure of 0 kPa, a radius of curvature (RP) is larger than a radius of curvature (RO), an arc of the radius of curvature (RP) joining an intersection (Pa) of a carcass layer and a straight line (La), an intersection (Pb) of the carcass layer and a straight line (Lb), and an intersection (Pc) of the carcass layer and a straight line (Lc), and an arc of the radius of curvature (RO) joining an intersection (Oa) of the straight line (La) and a tire external contour, an intersection (Ob) of the straight line (Lb) and the tire external contour, and an intersection (Oc) of the straight line (Lc) and the tire external contour.

Crown reinforcement of an aircraft tire comprises a working reinforcement (2) radially inside of tread (3) and radially outside of carcass reinforcement (4). Working reinforcement (2) comprises two working bi-plies (21, 22) radially superposed with respective axial widths (L.sub.1, L.sub.2), from first axial end (I.sub.1, I.sub.2) to second axial end (I.sub.1, I.sub.2). Each working bi-ply (21, 22) comprises two working layers (211, 212; 221, 222) radially superposed and respectively made up of axially juxtaposed portions of strip (5) of axial width W extending circumferentially in periodic curve (6) that forms, in the equatorial plane (XZ) of the tire and with the circumferential direction (XX) of the tire, a non-zero angle A and has a radius of curvature R at its extrema (7). The difference DL between the respective axial widths (L.sub.1, L.sub.2) of the radially superposed working bi-plies (21, 22) is at least equal to 2(W+(RW/2)(1cos A)).