The steel wire for the steel cord of the present invention includes a plating layer of Cu-M-Zn (M is one or two elements of Co, Ni, Cr, Mo, Al, In, or Sn) and has a concentration gradient in which the M content ratio in a region from the surface to ¼ of the plating layer is 40% or more compared with the M content ratio in the entire region of the plating layer, and the steel cord for rubber reinforcement is obtained by a manufacturing method comprising: performing sequential plating on a surface of a steel wire in the order of Cu.fwdarw.M.fwdarw.Zn; performing a primary diffusion, for concentration gradient of M, by subjecting the sequentially plated steel wire to high-frequency induction heating using 1-500 MHz; and performing a secondary diffusion, following the primary diffusion, by medium-frequency induction heating using 10-500 KHz.

Provided is a motorcycle tire, that provides excellent steering stability while using steel cords as a belt layer material, which comprises a carcass extending from a tread portion to a bead core of a bead portion via a sidewall portion, and a belt layer arranged outside the carcass and inside the tread portion in the tire radial direction, wherein the belt layer is a steel belt layer having steel cords; the steel cord is a steel cord having an m×n configuration in which n strands, formed by twisting m steel filaments, are twisted together in the same direction as the steel filaments, and the m is 1 or more and 3 or less and n is 2 or more and 6 or less; the diameter of the steel filament is 0.15 mm or more and 0.25 mm or less; the rubber composition forming the tread portion is a rubber composition having a complex elastic modulus E* (MPa) of 5.0 MPa or more; and the product (S×E*) of the total cross-sectional area S(mm.sup.2) of the steel filaments in the cross section of the steel cord and the complex elastic modulus E* (MPa) is 2.00 or less.

The present invention provides a tire that uses an elastomer-metal cord composite, which composite is obtained by coating metal cords with an elastomer, each metal cord being composed of a bundle of metal filaments arranged without being twisted, and which composite is capable of highly improving the performance of the tire. The above described tire is one including a belt (105) which includes at least two belt layers (105a) and (105b). In this tire, the belt layers (105a) and (105b) are each obtained by coating metal cords (2) with an elastomer (3), each metal cord (2) being composed of a bundle of a plurality of metal filaments (1) arranged in a row without being twisted; at least one pair of adjacent metal filaments in the metal cord (2) differ in at least one of the amount of shaping and shaping pitch; each of the belt layers (105a) and (105b) has a thickness t1 of more than 0.30 mm and less than 1.00 mm; and the distance g in the tire radial direction between the metal cords (2) in the two adjacent belt layers (105a) and (105b) is 0.10 mm or more and 1.20 mm or less at the center of the tire.

A steel wire having a flat shape in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, wherein an outer shape of the cross-section includes a first straight portion, a second straight portion arranged opposite to the first straight portion, and a first curved portion and a second curved portion that connect the first straight portion to the second straight portion, wherein the first curved portion is arranged opposite to the second curved portion, and wherein a ratio of W1 to W2 is 75% or less, where W1 is an average value of a length of the first straight portion and a length of the second straight portion, and W2 is a maximum distance between the first curved portion and the second curved portion.

The present disclosure relates to an electroplated bead wire having excellent oxidation resistance, of which oxidation resistance and aging adhesive strength with tire rubber are improved by forming a copper- and cobalt-plated layer by electroplating. The electroplated bead wire includes the plated layer formed through electroplating, wherein the plated layer contains 40 to 99 wt % of copper and 1 to 40 wt % of cobalt.

A coated wire includes a steel alloy coated with a coating comprising one or more amino alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane compounds selected from the group consisting of an amino alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane, an amino/mercaptan co-alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane, an amino/blocked mercaptan co-alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane, or a salt of one or more thereof. A rubber composition and a process for coating wire is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a steel cord-rubber composite including a rubber composition and a steel cord, wherein the rubber composition is a rubber composition containing a rubber component, a filler, a thermosetting resin, a methylene donor, a thiuram-based vulcanization accelerator, and a sulfenamide-based vulcanization accelerator; the content of a cobalt compound is 0.01 parts by mass or less; and the steel cord is a steel cord subjected to ternary alloy plating. The steel cord-rubber composite improves not only the adhesiveness of the steel cord-rubber composite, particularly the adhesiveness after hygrothermal aging, but also improves the crack propagation resistance and the low fuel consumption of the pneumatic tire using this steel cord-rubber composite and favorably makes the both compatible with each other.

Provided is a steel cord for rubber article reinforcement which has excellent corrosion resistance and productivity without deterioration of adhesion with rubber. A steel cord (1) for rubber article reinforcement, in which plural steel filaments (2) are twisted together, includes: a core having at least one core filament (2c); and a sheath having at least one sheath layer formed by twisting at least one sheath filament (2s) around the core. In this steel cord (1), brass plating is performed on the steel filaments (2) and zinc plating is further performed on the outer circumference of the brass plating of the core filament (2c), and the steel filaments (2) have a diameter d of 0.1 mm to 0.6 mm.

A method for manufacturing a straight steel monofilament for the reinforcement of belt ply of a pneumatic tyre, where the arc-height of the straight steel monofilament is less than 30 mm. The steel monofilament is plastically deformed by a twisting along the axis of the steel monofilament on a double-twist apparatus. The plastic twist deformation eliminates the surface stress difference on the steel monofilament and provides a strainght steel monofilament for belt ply reinforcement. This provides a simple solution with existing apparatus to manufacture straight steel monofilament suitable for tire reinforcement with high speed for mass production.

The present invention relates to a steel cord for rubber reinforcement wherein a steel wire for steel cord has a plating layer of a ternary or quaternary alloy.

The steel wire for the steel cord of the present invention comprises a plating layer of Cu-M-Zn (M is one or two elements of Co, Ni, Cr, Mo, Al, In, or Sn) and has a concentration gradient in which the M content ratio in a region from the surface to ¼ of the plating layer is 40% or more compared with the M content ratio in the entire region of the plating layer, and the steel cord for rubber reinforcement is obtained by a manufacturing method comprising: performing sequential plating on a surface of a steel wire in the order of Cu.fwdarw.M.fwdarw.Zn; performing a primary diffusion, for concentration gradient of M, by subjecting the sequentially plated steel wire to high-frequency induction heating using 1-500 MHz; and performing a secondary diffusion, following the primary diffusion, by medium-frequency induction heating using 10-500 KHz.