A crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements. The tire additionally comprises, in each shoulder, at least one end of a layer of reinforcing elements that are mutually parallel in the layer and are oriented circumferentially, said end being axially outside said at least two working crown layers, the reinforcing elements of the carcass reinforcement having a diameter less than 0.85 mm, and said reinforcing elements of the carcass reinforcement being made up of threads with a diameter less than 0.16 mm.

A composite based at least on a component having a metallic surface and on a polymer matrix comprising a diene elastomer DE and a functional diene polymer is provided. The functional diene polymer is a diene polymer bearing at least one functional group, the functional group being the phosphonic acid functional group, the phosphonic hemiacid functional group, the phosphonic acid diester functional group or a salt of the phosphonic acid or phosphonic hemiacid functional group. Such a composite exhibits good resistance to tearing-out.

Provided are a sheet, a method of its preparation, and a tire comprising the sheet, wherein the sheet comprises tire cords, a topping rubber for topping the tire cords, and a conductive fiber located on the surface of the topping rubber.

The sheet can provide tires, on which a rubber composition with a low electricity-transmitting property and low rolling resistance is applied, with excellent conductivity.

The present invention relates to a novel tire cord fabric or strip made of alternating PET and nylon 6.6 warp cords which is used as tire reinforcement. Such a novel tire cord fabric or strips improve high speed durability, tread separation resistance and impact resistance when used as zero degree spirally wound cap ply in pneumatic radial tires.

The cap ply reinforcement strip is a ready-to-use plain woven fabric and is composed of hybrid cord warps (3) and texturized weft yarns (2). The cap ply reinforcement strip for pneumatic tires (1) eliminates calendering and strip preparation steps by eliminating the need for rubber coating and decreases the rolling resistance of the tire and the fuel consumption.

Provided is a pneumatic tire in which not only the cutting resistance is enhanced but also the resistance to penetration of a foreign matter is improved without deterioration of the crack propagation resistance of an outermost belt layer. The pneumatic tire is a pneumatic tire 100 including a belt composed of at least three belt layers 103 on the tire radial-direction outer side of a carcass 102. In the pneumatic tire 100, a reinforcing material of at least an outermost belt layer 103c among the at least three belt layers 103 is a steel cord which has a layer-twisted structure including a core composed of two core filaments and a sheath composed of eight sheath filaments that are twisted together around the core, and a steel cord amount in the outermost belt layer 103c, which is represented by the following Equation (1), is 37 to 49: Steel cord diameter (mm)Steel cord end count (steel cords/50 mm) (1).

The present invention provides a pneumatic tire, which includes a belt layer laminated and formed on an upper side of a carcass ply inside a tread portion, and a plurality of air vent cords arranged between the carcass ply and the belt with a predetermined interval, wherein at least a part of the air vent cords is formed so as to have electrical conductivity, thus to electrically communicate the carcass ply and the belt layer with each other, such that a static electricity generated in a body of an automobile is discharged through the tread grounded to the road surface via the carcass ply which electrically contacts with a tire wheel, thereby preventing an accident that may occur due to the static electricity in the automobile.

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.

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with a band layer disposed radially inside a tread rubber provided with a first circumferential groove. Cords of the band layer are a hybrid cord formed by twisting together a first filament and a second filament having an elastic modulus lower than that of the first filament. In a region radially inside the first circumferential groove, a maximum thickness t1 of topping rubber on the radially outer side of the band cords is not more than 1.0 mm; a minimum distance d1 from the bottom of the first circumferential groove to the radially outer surface of the band layer is not more than 2.0 mm; and a distance d2 from a groove edge of the first circumferential groove to the radially outer surface of the band layer is not more than 15.0 mm.

A pneumatic vehicle tyre of radial type of construction, having a tread (1), having a carcass inlay (3), having electrically nonconductive sidewalls (7) and having at least one electrically conductive component (8) or element in a bead region, which component or element, in the case of a tyre mounted on a wheel rim, comes into contact with said wheel rim, wherein either the tread (1) is electrically conductive or, in the tread region, at least one electrically conductive component (10) is provided which is overlapped on the outside by the sidewalls (7) and which is connected in electrically conductive fashion to the tread outer surface, and wherein filaments provided with an electrically conductive coating are incorporated at least in a sidewall region, the coating of which filaments forms electrically conductive passages between the tread (1) or the component (10) and the at least one electrically conductive component (8) or element in the bead region.