The present invention provides a pneumatic tire having improved durability while maintaining or improving good handling stability. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including an outer apex formed from a rubber composition, the rubber composition having a thermal conductivity of 0.60 W/m.Math.K or higher.

A pneumatic tire mountable on a 15 tapered specified rim includes a bead core, a carcass, a steel cord reinforcing layer, a bead rubber layer, and a first reinforcing rubber layer. A distance from a second line segment to a third line segment is from 4 mm to 8 mm; a side of an outer portion and a side of an inner portion of a bead base portion bend at an inflection point located in a range from 8 mm to 18 mm from the first intersection point; and an angle formed by an extension line drawn from the side of the outer portion inward in the tire radial direction and the side of the inner portion is from 4.5 to 14.5.

A heavy truck tire is provided with a bead design that has a bead core and a reinforcement ply that wraps around a section of the bead core and has a return casing ply. Bead filler is present that has a portion radially outward from the bead core and axially inboard from the return casing ply. A stiffener layer is present that has a portion located outboard from the return casing ply. The bead has a first bead layer with a portion between the return casing ply and the stiffener layer, and a second bead layer that has a portion outboard from the stiffener layer. The stiffness of the first and second bead layers is 8 MPa to 14 MPa. The stiffness of the bead filler is less than the stiffness of the first and second bead layers.

A pneumatic radial tire includes a bead filler, a carcass ply, a steel protection layer, and an organic fiber protection layer. A reinforcing rubber sandwiches a wind-up end of the steel protection layer. A relationship of 1A/B2 is satisfied between a width A from the wind-up end of the steel protection layer to a tire inner surface, and a width B from the wind-up end of the steel protection layer to a tire outer surface. The wind-up end of the carcass ply is covered with a ply cover member. A relationship of 0.8D/C1.2 is satisfied between a thickness C of a second bead filler positioning between the ply cover member and a first bead filler, and a thickness D of the reinforcing rubber positioning between the ply cover member and the steel protection layer.

A pneumatic tire includes a reinforcing filler arranged along a bead core. The reinforcing filler includes an inner portion extending in the tire radial direction, outer portion extending in the tire radial direction, and a middle portion extending in the tire axial direction on the radially inner side of the bead core so as to connect the inner portion and the outer portion. The outer portion has an outer end in the tire radial direction located radially inside an outer end in the tire radial direction of the inner portion and located radially outside a center position of a section height of the bead core in the tire radial direction.

The pneumatic tire comprises a carcass and a pair of bead portions each with a bead core and a bead apex. The carcass comprises a carcass ply having a pair of turned-up portions and a main portion therebetween. At least one of the bead portions 4 is provided with a bead reinforcing rubber disposed on the axially outside of the turned-up portion. The bead reinforcing rubber comprises an axially outer first reinforcing rubber layer and an axially inner second reinforcing rubber layer. The complex elastic modulus of the second reinforcing rubber layer is smaller than the complex elastic modulus of the first reinforcing rubber layer.

A tire has an axis of rotation. The tire includes two inextensible annular bead structures for attachment to a vehicle rim, a carcass-like structure having at least one reinforced ply, the carcass-like structure being wound about the two bead structures, a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass-like structure, and a shear band structure disposed radially between the carcass-like structure and the tread. The two bead structures include at least one layer of a three dimensional fabric including a tear drop frame structure and open cells defined by the tear drop frame structure.

Heavy vehicle tire with two beads (2) contacting rim (3) an outer face (21), radial carcass reinforcement (4) having carcass layer (41) wound within each bead (2) around bead wire (5) having center (O) to form turnup (411), additional circumferential reinforcement (6), in each bead (2), having additional layer (61, 62), additional reinforcement (6) extending radially from radially inner end (E.sub.1) to radially outer end (E.sub.2) and axially on outerside of axially outermost turnup (411). The orthogonal projection (P.sub.1) of radially inner end (E.sub.1) of additional circumferential reinforcement (6) onto axially outer face (21) of bead (2) is radially on outside of center (O) of bead wire (5), the orthogonal projection (P.sub.2) of radially outer end (E.sub.2) of additional circumferential reinforcement (6) onto axially outer face (21) of the bead (2) contacting point (P.sub.2) of rim (3) that is axially on inside of point (C) of last contact of rim (3) when tire (1) is mounted and inflated, and radial distance (d) between end (E.sub.1) and end (E.sub.2) of additional circumferential reinforcement (6) is at most 20 mm.

Provided is a pneumatic tire including a sidewall that has a good balance of excellent handling stability, rolling resistance, and durability and further has excellent flex crack growth resistance. The sidewall is formed from a modified cellulose fiber-containing rubber composition that is allowed to simultaneously achieve excellent rigidity, excellent tensile properties, and low energy loss by improving the dispersibility of the cellulose fiber in rubber. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including a sidewall formed from a modified cellulose fiber-containing rubber composition, the modified cellulose fiber-containing rubber composition containing a modified cellulose fiber (A) obtained by adding a C15 or higher cyclic polybasic acid anhydride (a) containing a hydrophobic group to a cellulose fiber through esterification, a dispersing polymer (B) having a softening point of 135 C. or lower, and a rubber component (C).

A pneumatic tire has a rim strip rubber. A height of the rim strip rubber on the basis of an outer diameter position of a bead core is equal to or more than 70% of a height of a tire outer diameter position. An upper end of a side reinforcing layer is arranged closer to an outer side radially than an upper end of a bead filler. A distance from a tire maximum width position to the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is equal to or less than 5 mm. The maximum thickness Tw of the rim strip rubber between the upper end of the bead filler and the upper end of the side reinforcing layer is greater than the maximum thickness Tm of the rim strip rubber closer to the outer side radially than the upper end of the side reinforcing layer.