The invention relates to a tire (1), the tire (1) being rotatable about an axis of rotation (2) in a direction of rotation (3), having at least one electromagnetic transmitting and receiving device (4), at least one bead core (5) and at least one apex (6), wherein the at least one apex (6) is configured from a first homogeneous rubber material (7) and from a second homogeneous rubber material (8), wherein the first homogeneous rubber material (7) is disposed on the at least one bead core (5) and the first homogeneous rubber material (7) in spatial terms is disposed between the at least one bead core (5) and the one second homogeneous rubber material (8), wherein the at least one electromagnetic transmitting and receiving device (4) is disposed within the at least one apex (6).

The method is a method of manufacturing a tire, the tire-including bead cores, a bead filler-extending outward in a tire radial direction of each of the bead cores, a carcass ply extending from one bead core—to another bead core—and folded back around the bead cores, and an electronic component, the method comprising: a covering step of covering the electronic component with coated rubber; a recess forming step of forming, in the bead filler, a recess-having a shape corresponding to a shape of the coated rubber; and a disposing step of disposing the coated rubber, which at least partially covers the electronic component, in the recess-in the bead filler.

An adapter for a rolling assembly having an axis of rotation (YY′), the rolling assembly comprising a tyre having two beads, and a rim having two rim bead seats, for each bead, provides the connection between the bead and the rim, the said adapter comprising an axially inner end connected to the rim, an axially outer end comprising an outer reinforcing element and intended to come into contact, via a substantially radial axially inner face, or bearing face, with a bead, a body connecting the axially outer end to the axially inner end so as to form a single piece, comprising at least one main reinforcement providing the connection between the outer reinforcing element and the inner reinforcing element, and comprising a substantially axial adapter seat intended to come into contact with a bead. The outer reinforcing element is completely axially on the outside of the bearing face, and the outer reinforcing element is a substantially annular structure, referred to as a bead wire, of polygonal section, comprising an individual metal wire of diameter D1, the said wire being coated in an elastomer composition and wound contiguously around a support at least three times in an axial direction and at least twice in a radial direction.

A process and a drum for looping annular anchoring structures in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels includes: depositing a loop on a drum including a radially expandable/contractible intermediate annular portion and, in a position axially adjacent to the opposite axial ends of the intermediate annular portion, a pair of radially expandable/contractible lateral annular portions; associating an annular anchoring structure with a radially outer annular surface portion of the loop defined at the intermediate annular portion; and turning up each of opposite end edges of the loop on the annular anchoring structure through the lateral annular portions as a result of a thrusting stress imparted by a respective lateral annular portion of the pair of lateral annular portions because of a synchronous radial movement and a synchronous axial displacement of a respective plurality of circumferentially adjacent first angular sectors.

A tire includes: a bead core; a bead filler extending to an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the bead core; a carcass ply which is folded back around the bead core; a pad member disposed on an outer side in the tire-width direction of the bead filler; and a first rubber sheet disposed in a state covering a folding end of the carcass ply which is folded back, between the bead filler and the pad member, in which a second rubber sheet covering an electronic component is disposed between the bead filler and the pad member on an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the first rubber sheet.

A bead portion of a tire includes a bead core, a first bead filler arranged at a radially outer side of the bead core, a first carcass extending around the bead core and the first bead filler, a second carcass extending radially inward and adjacent the first carcass, a second bead filler disposed axially adjacent the second carcass, a first chafer disposed at an axially outer side of the second bead filler, a second chafer extended about a radially inner end of the first carcass, and a flipper extending radially inward from a position axially adjacent an axially outer side of the first bead filler. The flipper further extends axially inward adjacent a radially inner side of the bead core. The flipper further extends radially outward to position axially adjacent a first part of the first carcass, a second part of the first carcass, the second carcass, and a radially outermost end of the first bead filler.

A device for manufacturing a multiple layer rubber strip including a first rubber strip and a second rubber strip, the device includes a first rubber extruder for extruding the first rubber strip, a second rubber extruder for extruding the second rubber strip, a first conveyor for conveying the first rubber strip extruded from the first extruder to a downstream side in a convey direction, and a second conveyor for conveying the second rubber strip extruded from the second extruder to a downstream side in the convey direction. The second conveyor is located upwardly of the first conveyor and has a downstream conveyor end which positions above a conveying surface of the first conveyor such that the second rubber strip delivered from the downstream conveyor end meets and overlaps the first rubber strip on the first conveyor at a joining location to form the single multiple layer rubber strip.

A tire manufacturing method includes making a master batch, using the master batch to make a rubber composition, and making a green tire. The master batch is made wherein a carbon-black-containing pre-coagulation rubber latex is coagulated to obtain a coagulum; a compound according to Formula (I) is added to the water-containing coagulum; ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each indicates a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, an alkenyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, or an alkynyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different, and M.sup.+ indicates sodium ion, potassium ion, or lithium ion; and the compound according to Formula (I) is dispersed within the coagulum. The green tire is provided with unvulcanized rubber sheeting made up of the rubber composition, chafer(s), carcass ply or plies, and bead filler(s).

A method for forming a composite apex, the method comprising the steps of: forming a coextruded strip of a first compound and a second compound, wherein the second compound is a compound different than the first compound, wherein the apex is formed from winding the coextruded strip while varying the ratio of the first compound to the second compound.

A tire including a rubber sheet which covers an end of the carcass ply which has been folded back and an RFID tag serving as an electronic component provided between the bead filler and the rubber sheet, in which the bead filler is formed in an annular shape, the rubber sheet is formed in an annular shape by one end side and another end side of a long sheet being joined, and the RFID tag serving as the electronic component is disposed between the bead filler and the rubber sheet at a joint part which is a portion of the rubber sheet which is joined.