The present invention provides a tire including a side portion (104), a black rubber layer (113), a stain-preventing rubber layer (112) disposed adjacent to the black rubber layer, and a colored layer (111) disposed on the surface of the stain-preventing rubber layer and exposed on the outer surface of the side portion; a tire including a colored layer (207) disposed on the outer surface of the tire, and an underlayer rubber (208) disposed on the tire-interior side of the colored layer, wherein the colored layer is formed by curing a UV-curable paint; and a tire including a colored layer (302) on the surface of the side portion (301) of the tire, wherein the colored layer includes a marking (303).

Tires having a sidewall that is covered with a protective coating that may cover the exposed surface of one or both of the sidewalls. The protective coating is a rubber composition that is based upon a cross-linkable elastomer composition that includes, per 100 parts by weight of rubber, ), between 25 phr and 45 phr of natural rubber, between 25 phr and 45 phr of polybutadiene rubber and between 30 phr and 40 phr of EPDM. Additionally the rubber composition may include between 20 phr and 50 phr of carbon black and a curing system. The curing system may be a peroxide curing system. In addition, the protective coating may be applied to the sidewall at a thickness of between 0.4 mm and 1 mm.

A pneumatic tire comprises: a tread portion; a pair of sidewall portions; a pair of bead portions each with a bead core embedded therein; a toroidal carcass extending between the bead portions; and a sidewall rubber disposed axially outside the carcass in each of the sidewall portions. The bead portion has a bead bottom surface which contacts with a bead seat of a wheel rim when the tire is mounted thereon. The bead bottom surface comprises an axially inner region including a bead toe and an axially outer region including a bead heel. The axially inner region is formed by a canvas chafer. The axially outer region is formed by the sidewall rubber extended radially inwardly from the sidewall portion.

In a tire 2, load support layers 20 extend, in portions inward of a carcass 10, from portions inward of beads 8, respectively, in the axial direction to portions inward of a tread in the radial direction. When a reference point P represents a point, on an outer surface of the tire 2, which is distant from a bead base line by 25 mm in the radial direction, a distance D1, at the reference point P, from the outer surface of the tire 2 to an outer side surface of a main portion 36 of a carcass ply 34 is greater than or equal to 3 mm and not greater than 10 mm.

In a pneumatic tire, a carcass layer is between bead portions, a bead core is in each bead portion, a reinforcement layer is on an outer side of the carcass layer, and a tread rubber layer is on the outer side of the reinforcement layer. A pair of first boundary lines passes through an intersection of an extension of a side arc forming a tread profile and an extension of a shoulder arc and orthogonal to a tire inner surface, a pair of second boundary lines passes through a rim check line and orthogonal to the tire inner surface, first to third regions are defined which have cross sectional areas of SA, SB, and SC, respectively, and the first to third regions respectively have lengths of a, b, and c along the tire inner surface such that 7.5≤SA/a≤11.5 and 2.0≤SB/b≤6.0 are satisfied.

In a tire 2 of the present invention, sidewalls 6 each include an outer layer 6a, and an inner layer 6b disposed inward of the outer layer 6a in the axial direction. A loss tangent of the inner layer 6b is less than a loss tangent of the outer layer 6a. When Hr represents a height, in the radial direction, from a bead base line BBL to an outer side end of a rim R, and Hi represents a height, in the radial direction, from the bead base line BBL to an inner side end 46 of the inner layer 6b, a ratio (Hi/Hr) of the height Hi to the height Hr is greater than or equal to 0.0 and not greater than 3.0.

The pneumatic tire includes: a pair of bead portions; a pair of sidewall portions; a tread portion; a carcass; a reinforcing rubber layer, a tire widthwise cross-section of the reinforcing rubber layer having a substantially crescent shape; an inclined belt including at least one inclined belt layer formed by a plurality of cords extending at an inclination to a tire circumferential direction and covered with rubber; and an inner liner provided on an inner peripheral surface of a tire body in at least the tread portion. In a tire widthwise cross-sectional view, an edge of the inner liner is positioned farther outward in the tire radial direction than a tire maximum width position of the pneumatic tire and farther inward in the tire radial direction than a perpendicular from a tire widthwise edge of the inclined belt to the inner peripheral surface of the tire body.

A heavy-duty pneumatic tire includes a section width being equal to or less than 335 mm, an aspect ratio being equal to or less than 55%, and a toroidal carcass extending between axially spaced bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions. The carcass includes a carcass ply which includes a main portion and a turn-up portion turned up around a bead core of each bead portion. A belt layer is disposed radially outward of the carcass in the tread portion, wherein a radially outer end of the turn-up portion is located between the main portion and the belt layer in the tread portion. A sheeted rubber layer is disposed between the main portion and the turn-up portions in each sidewall portion.

The present invention aims to provide a pneumatic tire with sufficiently reduced rolling resistance. The pneumatic tire according to the present invention including a carcass having a carcass main portion extending from a tread portion via a sidewall portion to a bead portion in a toroidal shape and locked on a bead core embedded in the bead portion, and a belt disposed on a crown portion outer peripheral side of the carcass, characterized in that, when mounted on an applicable rim and put under a predetermined internal pressure no-load condition, a minimum value R1 of a curvature radius of a tire width direction cross-section in a tire radial direction outer portion of the carcass main portion positioned on an tire radial direction outer side than a position where a distance measured from a tire radial direction inner end of the carcass outwardly in the tire radial direction becomes ½ of a carcass cross-sectional height is 0.6 times or less of a minimum value R2 of the curvature radius of the tire width direction cross-section of a portion that, in the tire radial direction inner portion of the carcass main portion positioned on the tire radial direction inner side than the tire radial direction outer portion, bulges out in the tire width direction.

To improve durability performance and rolling resistance performance in a well-balanced manner. It is a tire for heavy loads including a carcass ply (6A). A sidewall rubber (3G) includes an inside rubber part (15) on the carcass (6) side, and an outside rubber part (16) disposed on the outside thereof and forming a tire outer surface. The inside rubber part (15) has a loss tangent tan δ1 less than the outside rubber part (16), and their difference is 0.010 to 0.035. The inside rubber part (15) has a complex elastic modulus less than the outside rubber part (16), their difference is 0.5 to 1.4 (MPa). The outer end (15s) in the tire radial direction of the inside rubber part (15) contacts with the outer surface (2h) in the tire axial direction of the tread rubber (2G), and the inner end (15u) in the tire radial direction is disposed radially inside the outer end (6e) in the tire radial direction of the turned up portion (6b) of the carcass ply (6A).