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.

The present disclosure relates to a method and manufacturing method for a tire tread composition having absorption properties with high electric conductivity and excellent wear resistance. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to the fabrication of a tire composition to be used as a non-pneumatic tire, the tire composition can be used as a mobile electrode with a water supply means that can identify the location of defects in the buried conductor using the tire electrode manufacturing with improved conductivity and contact resistance with the ground even though the tire compound has wear resistance by lowering the water swelling rate compared to the previous technology.

A tread surface 20 of the tire 2 includes a center portion C and a pair of shoulder portions S. A contour line of the tread surface 20 is divided into ten parts. Among the ten parts, two parts including an equator PC are represented by arcs, and two parts including ends PE of the tread surface 20, respectively, are represented by arcs. A degree of curvature of each shoulder portion S is higher than a degree of curvature of the center portion C. A ratio of the degree of curvature of the shoulder portion S to a width TW of the tread surface 20 is not less than 50%. A ratio of the degree of curvature of the center portion C to the width TW of the tread surface 20 is not greater than 70%.

There is provided a non-pneumatic tire (1), which includes an attachment body (11) that is attached to an axle, a ring-shaped body (13) that surrounds the attachment body (11) from an outside in a tire radial direction, a connection member (15) that displaceably connects the attachment body (11) and the ring-shaped body (13) to each other, and a cylindrical tread member (16) that is externally mounted on the ring-shaped body (13), in which the tread member (16) includes a base rubber portion (41) that is positioned at an inside in the tire radial direction, and a cap rubber portion (42) that is positioned at an outside of the base rubber portion (41) in the tire radial direction, and in which the rigidity of the base rubber portion (41) is lower than the rigidity of the cap rubber portion (42).

Provided is a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger car that exhibits both riding comfort at low temperatures and stealing stability at high-speed running. The present invention is a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger car, in which: a carcass and a tread are provided; the tread is integrated into a standardized rim; when internal pressure is at a standardized internal pressure, the tire has a cross-sectional width Wt (mm) and an outer diameter Dt (mm) satisfying 1963.4≤(Dt.sup.2π/4)/Wt≤2827.4; the tread comprises at least one main groove in a running surface of the tread, extending in the circumferential direction of the tread; the land/sea ratio at the tread running surface is greater than 55% and less than 85%; and a rubber composition that forms the tread has a loss tangent (tan δ) which, when measured at a frequency of 10 Hz, an initial strain of 2%, and a dynamic strain rate of 1%, is such that |20° C. tan δ-50° C. tan δ| is at least 0.01 and less than 0.15, and 15° C. tan δ-20° C. tan δ| is greater than 0.15 and less than 0.70.

A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion having a tread rubber and a tire inner cavity surface, and a noise damper made of a porous material fixed to the tire inner cavity surface. The tread rubber includes an outer tread rubber having a ground-contacting surface, and an inner tread rubber disposed inwardly in the tire radial direction of the outer tread rubber and outwardly in the tire radial direction of the noise damper. A loss tangent tan δ of the inner tread rubber at 30° C. is smaller than a loss tangent tan δ of the outer tread rubber at 30° C.

It is an object to provide a tire having an excellent balance of wet grip performance and chipping resistance. The tire is a tire comprising a tread, wherein the tread has a lateral groove neither of both ends of which opens into circumferential grooves, wherein a predetermined rubber component, a predetermined filler, and a silane coupling agent are compounded in a rubber layer of a tread surface, wherein a brittleness temperature of the rubber component and a ratio of a groove depth at the deepest part of the groove bottom of the lateral groove neither of both ends of which opens into the circumferential grooves to a thickness of the entire tread are made to lie in predetermined ranges.

In a tire, a tread includes a cap layer forming a part of an outer surface of the tire, a base layer disposed inwardly of the cap layer in a radial direction, and an intermediate layer disposed between the cap layer and the base layer in the radial direction. A loss tangent of the intermediate layer at 30° C. is less than a loss tangent of the cap layer at 30° C. and a loss tangent of the base layer at 30° C. is less than the loss tangent of the intermediate layer at 30° C. The tread includes at least two three-layer body portions formed of the cap layer, the intermediate layer, and the base layer, and at least one two-layer body portion that is formed of the cap layer and the base layer and disposed between a first three-layer body portion and a second three-layer body portion.

A pneumatic tire that specifies the tire mounting direction when mounted on a vehicle and has sufficiently improved grip performance at high-speed turning is provided in which the cap rubber layer on the outermost layer of the tread is divided in the tire width direction, the cap rubber layer located on the outside of the vehicle is formed of a rubber composition containing 25% by mass or less of styrene in the rubber component and having a glass transition temperature of −18° C. or higher, and, when the carbon black content ratio is C.sub.OUT (mass %), and the ground contact area ratio is L.sub.OUT, in the cap rubber layer located on the outside of the vehicle, and the carbon black content ratio is C.sub.IN (mass %) and the ground contact area ratio is L.sub.IN in the cap rubber layer located inside the vehicle, the following (Formula 1) and (Formula 2) are satisfied.

C.sub.IN<C.sub.OUT  (Formula 1)

0≤(C.sub.OUT×L.sub.OUT)−(C.sub.IN×L.sub.IN)  (Formula 2)

When a tire is attached to a rim and set to an internal pressure of 250 kPa or more, a ratio SW/OD of the tire is 0.26 or less in the case where SW of the tire is less than 165 (mm), and SW and OD satisfy a relationship 2.135×SW+282.3≦OD in the case where SW is 165 (mm) or more. The tread rubber has dynamic storage modulus E′ of 6.0 MPa to 12.0 MPa, and loss tangent tan δ of 0.05 to 0.15. In at least one land portion, sipes are arranged with a predetermined pitch length L, and a land portion width W, a tire widthwise sipe component total length Ws of the sipes, the pitch length L, and a tire circumferential sipe component total length Ls of the sipes satisfy relationships 0.4W≦Ws≦1.2W and 0.6L≦Ls≦3L.