A vehicle wheel includes: a well portion having an outer peripheral surface on which a vertical wall extending in a circumferential direction of the vehicle wheel is formed; and a Helmholtz resonator attached to a side surface of the vertical wall and to the outer peripheral surface of the well portion with an adhesive.

A Helmholtz resonator for a vehicle wheel reduces sonic resonance, which is generated in a tire during running of the vehicle, by employing a wheel cap, which has an internal chamber in the vehicle wheel cap and is closely mounted on the vehicle wheel from the outside of the vehicle wheel, a connecting pipe connecting the internal chamber in the vehicle wheel cap with the cavity in the tire and a coupling member.

A carcass layer of a pneumatic lire includes carcass cords of organic fiber cords obtained by intertw ining a filament bundle of organic fibers, and includes turn-up portions formed by turning back end portions of the carcass layer at bead portions toward an outer side in a width direction. The carcass cords have an elongation at break (EB) satisfying EB≥15%. An averagetotal gauge (GC)of a center land portion located within a width of 10% of a width of a second widest belt in a belt layer on right and left sides of an equatorial plane in the width direction, an average thickness(SG) of a sound absorptive member inside the pneumatic tire and located within a range identical to that of the center land portion, and the elongation at break (EB) of the carcass cords satisfy 15≤GC/(GC+SG/10)×EB (%)≤25.

A pneumatic tire is provided with a noise damper made of a sponge material attached to a radially inner surface of the tread portion. The noise damper has protruding portions protruding from a radially inner surface of a band-shaped base portion. The protruding portions extend from one edge to the other edge of the base portion in the widthwise direction, and arranged at intervals in the tire circumferential direction. In a cross section of the tire parallel with the tire equatorial plane, the radially inner surface of each of the protruding portions includes a flat portion, and the radially inner surface of the base portion includes an arc portion parallel with the inner surface of the tread portion.

A wheel for a vehicle includes a plurality of Helmholtz resonators each including an auxiliary air chamber communicating with a tire air chamber through a communication hole. The Helmholtz resonators include one or more first Helmholtz resonators set to have a silencing characteristic for a first-order resonance frequency of air column resonance noise in the tire air chamber, and one or more second Helmholtz resonators set to have a silencing characteristic for a second-order or higher-order resonance frequency of the air column resonance noise.

A vehicle wheel includes: a wheel body; a single Helmholtz resonator; and a suspension member slidably engaged with the wheel body and suspending the Helmholtz resonator inside a tire air chamber from the wheel body.

In a first aspect of the invention, a pneumatic tire is provided, the tire comprising two spaced apart bead portions, a tread portion, a pair of sidewalls extending radially inward from axially outer edges of the tread portion to join the respective bead portions, the axially outer edges of the tread portion defining a tread width, a carcass, an innerliner covering the carcass and defining a tire cavity, and a metal coated foam material attached to the innerliner within the tire cavity.

Provided is a tire including, in a tread surface, a plurality of land portions partitioned by a circumferential main groove extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction, on at least one side in a tire width direction, and comprising, in an internal land portion located in a vehicle-installed inside half portion to a tire equatorial plane among the plurality of land portions, an internal resonator including a first auxiliary groove that terminates in the internal land portion, and a first branch groove that communicates between the first auxiliary groove and the circumferential main groove, and in the first branch groove, a hidden groove having an opening width in the tread surface that is smaller than a groove width of a groove bottom is provided adjacent to the first auxiliary groove.

A vehicle wheel including a wavelength tube member may include spokes, a cylindrical rim configured to connect both circumferential portions of the spokes, and a wavelength tube member accommodated on the rim between the first and second circumferential portions of the spokes and configured to cancel sound wave generated in a cavity formed between the rim and a tire, wherein the wavelength tube member may include a rim seating portion being in surface-contact with and accommodated on an external surface of the rim; and a plurality of wavelength tube portions formed on the rim seating portion.

A tire having a contact face of a width TW is provided. The contact face is intended to come into contact with ground during rolling. The tread is provided with at least one groove of a depth D provided with a wear indicating means that extends generally in a circumferential orientation and opens to the contact face. The tread comprises a center region and a pair of shoulder regions that are positioned on two axial sides of the center region. The shoulder regions each comprise a shoulder rubber layer of a thickness ts made of a shoulder rubber composition different from a rubber composition constituting the tread. A shear storage modulus G′ of the shoulder rubber composition measured at 23° C., 10 Hz and 10% of strain is less than or equal to 1.0 MPa.