The introduction of graphene as an additive in truck tire treads is disclosed. The product shows increased electrical resistance in tire treads, with no tradeoffs in other characteristics.

The invention provides a pneumatic tire having a tire tread with a ground engaging outer surface. The tread further has a first or central tread zone located on the central or crown portion of the tread and formed of a first rubber compound. Additionally, the tread has a second or shoulder tread zone located axially outward of the first or central tread zone on each lateral end of the tread. The second or shoulder tread zone is formed of a second rubber compound. In one example, the first rubber compound has a G′ (at 50% strain) in the range of 1.6 to 1.8 MPa. In another example, the second rubber compound has a G′ (at 100% strain) in the range of 800 to 830 KPa.

To provide a pneumatic tire in which the rolling resistance coefficient is reduced while maintaining steering stability. A total gauge TOGa of a cap tread rubber (11A) and an undertread rubber (11B) and a gauge UTGa of the undertread rubber (11B) satisfy a relationship 0.20 ≤ UTGa/TOGa ≤ 0.40 in a ground contact region defined by a pair of shoulder main grooves (10B) located on both outermost sides in a tire width direction in a tread portion (1). A hardness UTHs of the undertread rubber (11B) is in a range of 62 or more and 67 or less. The hardness UTHs of the undertread rubber (11B) and a hardness CapHs of the cap tread rubber (11A) satisfy a relationship 0.90 ≤ CapHs/UTHs ≤ 1.20. A tan δ (60° C.) of the undertread rubber (11B) is less than 0.06.

In a cross-sectional view of a tire, a line connecting, by a single arc, a ground contact edge in a shoulder land, and midpoints of center and middle lands in a width direction is a profile. A distance between intersection points of the profile and lines extended from groove walls, on sides of the center land, of a main groove adjacent to both ends of the center land in the width direction is defined as Wc. Ends of the center land and of the middle land on both sides of the main groove are recessed toward the inner side in the radial direction relative to the profile, the recess of the middle land end is larger than the recess of the center land end, and a range of 0.03Wc from the center land end on the middle land side does not touch the ground.

A two-wheeled vehicle tyre includes a tread portion being provided with a belt layer and a tread rubber disposed radially outwardly of the belt layer. The belt layer includes steel cords oriented along a tyre circumferential direction. The tread rubber includes a cap rubber forming a tread surface and a base rubber disposed radially inwardly of the cap rubber, wherein 300% modulus (M300c) of the cap rubber is greater than 300% modulus (M300b) of the base rubber, and loss tangent (tan δc) of the cap rubber is smaller than loss tangent (tan δb) of the base rubber.

Provided is a tire having excellent rolling resistance and improved pass-by noise performance. The tire is a pneumatic tire comprising a side rubber provided on an outer side of a carcass in a tire width direction, in a sidewall portion, wherein a thickness of the side rubber in the tire width direction at a tire maximum width position is 1 mm or more, and a ratio 0° C. tan δ/30° C. tan δ of 0° C. tan δ to 30° C. tan δ of the side rubber is 2.00 or more, where the 0° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 0° C., and the 30° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 30° C.

Provided is a tire having excellent rolling resistance and improved pass-by noise performance. A tire comprises a tread portion that includes a base rubber and a cap rubber located on an outer side of the base rubber in a tire radial direction, wherein a thickness of the base rubber in the tire radial direction is 1 mm or more, 30° C. tan δ of the base rubber is 0.20 or less, and a ratio 0° C. tan δ/30° C. tan δ of 0° C. tan δ to 30° C. tan δ of the base rubber is 2.90 or more, where the 30° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 30° C., and the 0° C. tan δ is tan δ at 10 Hz and 0° C.

A pneumatic tire having a tordial tire framework member having bead portions, sidewall portions and an under tread portion, and a ground contacting tread component disposed radially outside the under tread portion. The ground contacting tread component is made of a first resin material. The sidewall portions and the under tread portion are made of a second resin material. The bead portions are made of a third resin material. The tensile elastic moduli E1 to E3 of the first to third resin materials M3, respectively, satisfy E1<E2<E3.

A rubber compound for heavy-duty truck or bus tire treads may comprise: 5 to 100 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight rubber (phr) of a long chain branched cyclopentene ring opening rubber (LCB-CPR) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of −120° C. to −80° C., a g′vis of 0.50 to 0.91, and a ratio of cis-to-trans of 40:60 to 5:95; 0 phr to 95 phr of a rubber selected from a group consisting of a natural rubber (NR), a polybutadiene rubber (BR), and a combination thereof; 30 phr to 90 phr of a reinforcing filler; and 0.5 phr to 20 phr of a process oil.

The present invention aims to provide tire rubber composition with significantly improved overall performance in terms of wet grip performance and fuel economy, and pneumatic tires including the rubber compositions. The tire rubber compositions of the present invention have a tan δ versus temperature curve whose peak tan δ and half width satisfy the following relationship (1): Peak tan δ/Half width ≥ 0.025 (1).