A pneumatic tire is configured in such a manner that at least two carcass layers each have both end portions in the tire width direction extending to bead cores disposed in both bead portions, and the both end portions are wound up from the inner side in the tire width direction of the bead cores to the outer side in the tire width direction, and extend outward in the tire radial direction. In such a pneumatic tire, the carcass layers are formed by thermoplastic sheets, and a rubber layer is disposed at least between adjacent sheets of the thermoplastic sheets.

A pneumatic tire has a carcass layer, a side wall rubber which forms an outer surface of a side wall portion, and a rim strip rubber which forms an outer surface of a bead portion. The rim strip rubber extends in a tire radial direction between the carcass layer and the side wall rubber. A height of the rim strip rubber on the basis of an outer diameter position of a bead core buries in the bead portion is equal to or more than 70% of a height of a tire outer diameter position. A thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber at the tire maximum width position is smaller than the maximum thickness Tm of the rim strip rubber which is closer to an outer side in the tire radial direction than the tire maximum width position.

Resistance to unseating of a tire operating at low pressure is achieved by a tire comprising at least one bead having an axial width at the seat D comprising at least one main circumferential reinforcing element (22) of which the radially innermost point (222) is at a radial distance Z and at an axial distance Y from the radially innermost point (211) of the bead, and such that Y/D is at least equal to 0.5 and Z/D is at most equal to 0.4. This same bead comprises at least one bead layer (23) surrounding the bead filler rubber (21) and such that its axially outermost end (231) is radially on the outside of the end (311) of the carcass layer (31) and it also comprises at least one additional circumferential reinforcing element (24), radially on the inside of the radially outermost point (223) of the main circumferential reinforcing element (22).

Aircraft tire comprises carcass reinforcement (5) comprising a first family of carcass layers extending between two beads (3), having at least one carcass layer wrapped, within each bead, from the inside towards the outside of the tire, around a bead wire (6) to form turn-up (511) having free end (E.sub.1) radially outside of radially outermost point (E) of the bead wire. The second family comprises at least two carcass layers, adjacent each to the next, extending, within each bead, from outside towards inside of the tire, as far as their respective ends (E.sub.2) which are radially inside of axial straight line (D.sub.Y) through centre (O) of bead wire (6) and axially inside of a radial straight line (D.sub.Z) through centre (O) at axial distance (d.sub.2) at least equal to 5 mm. The carcass layers of the second family are axially inside of at least one turn-up of a carcass layer of the first family.

Tire including: a tread; a pair of sidewalls extending substantially inward radially from ends of the tread; a pair of beads positioned substantially radially inwardly of the sidewalls; and a clinch portion extending from the sidewalls to the beads. A concave curved surface extends on an outer surface of the clinch portion in a circumferential direction. A convex curved surface formed on a radially outer side end of a rim flange is engageable with the concave curved surface. A ratio R1/R of curvature radius R1 of the concave curved surface to a curvature radius R of the convex curved surface of the rim flange satisfies 1.7R1/R2.5. The curvature radii R1 and R of the concave and convex curved surfaces, respectively, are each a radius of curvature of an arc on a cross-section taken along a plane including a tire center axis.

A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 comprising a carcass ply (6A) comprising a main body portion (6a) and turned up portions (6b), and bead apex rubbers 8. Each of the bead apex rubbers 8 comprises a first rubber portion 10 and a second rubber portion 11 provided on an outer side in a tire axial direction of the first rubber portion and having smaller rubber hardness than the first rubber portion. A ratio H1/H2 of a height (H1) of an outer end (10e) in a tire radial direction of the first rubber portion 10 from a bead base line (BL) and a height (H2) of an outer end in the tire radial direction of each of the turned up portions (6b) from the bead base line (BL) is in a range of from 1.4 to 1.7.

A tire inspection method includes: capturing a transmission image of a tire including a steel chafer at a bead portion; generating an image at an inspection device from the captured image of a full revolution of the tire with the steel chafer portions extracted using a spatial filter generated in accordance with an incline of the wires of the steel chafer; detecting a locus of a front side edge and a back side edge of the steel chafer; generating an image from the captured image with the steel chafer portions removed; detecting a locus of a turned-up edge of a carcass from this image; and determining at the inspection device the position of the carcass to be appropriate or not on the basis of the locus of the turned-up edge of the carcass.

A pneumatic tire includes a tread, sidewalls, clinches, beads, a carcass, and strips. Each bead includes a core, a first apex and a second apex, the carcass includes a carcass ply which is turned up around the core from the axially inner side toward outer side such that the carcass ply is divided into a main portion and a turn-up portion, each strip has radially inner edge positioned between the main and turn-up portions, the second apex is positioned between the turn-up portion and each clinch, each strip has outer edge positioned to correspond to or on inner side of a point of maximum width of the tire in radial direction, the second apex has outer edge positioned on radially inner side of the outer edge of each strip, and the second apex includes crosslinked rubber and has complex elastic modulus in range of from 60 MPa to 70 MPa.

Aircraft tire (1) comprising two beads (2). In each bead (2) portion (8) comprises surface layer (9) in contact with rim (3) via radially interior bead face (4) and having a shear stiffness K.sub.1. Portion (8) comprises a rigid layer (10), radially on the outside of and adjacent to the surface layer (9), having a shear stiffness K.sub.2 at least equal to five times the shear stiffness K.sub.1 of the surface layer (9), and a deformable layer (11), radially on the outside of and adjacent to the rigid layer (10) and radially on the inside of and adjacent to the carcass reinforcement portion (5) radially on the inside of the bead wire (7), having a shear stiffness K.sub.3 at most equal to 0.3 times the shear stiffness K.sub.1 of the surface layer (9).

In a pneumatic tire that includes strip members which extends in a tire circumferential direction, both ends thereof reaching each bead portion, a belt layer is disposed in a tread portion on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the strip members. The strip members are divided in the tire width direction, and the divided strip members have joints that join together in the tire circumferential direction. Relative positions of the joints are disposed deviated by not less than 20 in the tire circumferential direction within a region between an edge of a maximum width in the tire width direction of the belt layer and a maximum tire width position.