A pneumatic tire has two carcass layers including carcass cords are laid between a pair of bead portions, bead cores and bead fillers are disposed in the bead portions, and at least two belt layers are disposed on the outer circumferential side of the carcass layers, the tire being characterized in that both ends of the inner carcass layer are folded back from the tire inner side to the tire outer side around the bead cores, and the ends of the folded back portions of the inner carcass layer are disposed between the innermost belt layer and the outer carcass layer, while both ends of the outer carcass layer are disposed so as to pass between a main portion of the inner carcass layer and the bead fillers, and both ends of the outer carcass layer terminate at the bead portions without being folded back around the bead cores.

A pneumatic tire includes an up ply, a down ply, and a cord reinforcing layer. The up ply has: a main body section and a wound section. The down ply is provided on a tire outer surface side of the up ply. The cord reinforcing layer is provided from the inner side to the outer side in the tire axial direction of the bead core to cover the up ply, and has reinforcing cords. A tip of the wound section is located outward in a tire radial direction from a rim flange. An outer end in the tire axial direction of the cord reinforcing layer is located outward in the tire radial direction from a bead upper line and inward in the tire radial direction from the rim flange. The bead upper line extends from an outer surface in the tire radial direction of the bead core.

A tire includes a carcass, and a wire chafer disposed on an outer circumference of the carcass. A reinforcement rubber layer having a lower elastic modulus than that of a coating rubber included in the carcass and/or that of a coating rubber included in the wire chafer, is arranged between the carcass and the wire chafer. In an area where the reinforcement rubber layer is arranged, the rotational angle around a bead core to outward in the tire width direction falls within at least a portion of the range of 45 to 90 with reference to a straight line which extends inward in the tire radial direction from the center of the bead core, which is orthogonal to the tire width direction, and which intersects with the wire chafer.

A heavy duty pneumatic tire includes 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 is engageable with the concave curved surface. A ratio R1/R2 of a radius of curvature of the concave curved surface to a radius of curvature of the convex curved surface, satisfies 1.7R1/R23.9, a ratio D1/R2 of a depth of the concave curved surface to the radius of curvature of the convex curved surface satisfies 0.05D1/R20.09, and the radius of curvature R1 of the concave curved surface and the radius of curvature R2 of the convex curved surface are each a radius of curvature of an arc on a cross section as taken along a plane including a center axis of the tire.

Each side piece 40 of a tire 2 includes a rim protector 42. A bob profile representing a contour of the rim protector 42 includes a first circular arc extending outward from a top PT of the rim protector 42, and a second circular arc extending inward from the top PT. A center of the first circular arc is located inward of the bob profile, and a center of the second circular arc is located outward of the bob profile. The side piece 40 includes a side apex 22, and the side apex 22 intersects a normal line LT that is normal to a carcass 12 and passes through the top PT.

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.

A pneumatic tire 2 includes a buttress reinforcing layer 22. A carcass 12 includes a first ply 38 and a second ply 40. The first ply 38 and the second ply 40 each have a main portion that is extended on and between beads 10 on both sides. The buttress reinforcing layer 22 extends along the first ply 38 and the second ply 40 between the first ply 38 and the second ply 40. An outer end 22a of the buttress reinforcing layer 22 is disposed inward of a shoulder region S of a tread 4 in a radial direction. An inner end 22b of the buttress reinforcing layer 22 is disposed at a maximum width position of the tire or disposed outward of the maximum width position of the tire in the radial direction.

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread; a bead region, a sidewall; a bead core; a first apex; an apex-extension; a carcass; a chafer and a second apex. The second apex is positioned between a rim flange protector and the first apex or the extension. The carcass includes a first ply turned-up around the bead core to form a first turnup portion extending along the first apex and the extension and terminating radially inwardly from the radially outward end of the extension. The carcass may include a second ply turned-up, between the bead core and the first ply, around the bead core to form a second turnup portion, the second turnup portion extending along the axially outer side of the first apex. Alternatively, the carcass may include a second ply parting from the first ply at the extension and extending along the extension and the turnup portion of the first ply.

A tyre (1), comprising: two toroidal bead portions (12), each housing an annular bead bundle (121); a toroidal body ply (10), folded, at each of its transversal ending portions (101), about a respective bead bundle (121) forming a respective turn-up (14); two bead fillers (20), one for each bead portion, each in contact with a respective bead bundle (121) and at least partly enclosed by a respective turn-up (14),

which tyre (1) further comprises two elastomeric crack control members (21), one for each bead portion (12), wherein each crack control member (21) extends at a body ply ending (101), externally to the respective turn-up (14), and each crack control member (21) is made by a couple of strips having a differentiated stiffness along their transversal section, with a lower stiffness at a first strip (201, 211) adjacent to the body ply ending (101) and a higher stiffness at a second strip (202, 212) in contact with the respective bundle (121),

so that the first lower stiffness strip defines a preferential propagation path for any tyre crack originating at the body ply folded ending (FIG. 2).

A tire 2 includes: a pair of beads 10 including cores 28; chafers 22, disposed near the beads 10, which are brought into contact with a rim; an inner liner 18 disposed inward of a carcass 32 in an axial direction; and an insulation 20 disposed between the carcass 32 and the inner liner 18 in the axial direction. The chafers 22 include bottom surfaces 22a that are brought into contact with the rim in portions inward of the cores 28 in a radial direction. The insulation 20 includes insulation lower portions 20a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction. The inner liner 18 includes inner liner lower portions 18a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction.