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.

Provided is a pneumatic tire ensuring conductivity while being reduced in weight, and having good fuel efficiency and handling stability. The tire includes a sidewall and a carcass, the sidewall including a laminate of two or more rubber layers including an inner sidewall layer (1) located closest to the carcass, and an outer sidewall layer (2) constituting an outer surface of the tire; the layer (1) including a rubber composition for (1); the layer (2) including a rubber composition for (2); the carcass including a carcass cord topped with a rubber composition for a carcass cord topping (3); the sidewall having a thickness of 3.0 mm or less; the layer (1) having a thickness of 0.2-1.0 mm; the composition for (1) having a volume resistivity of 5.010.sup.7 .Math.cm or less; the compositions for (1) and for (2), and the compositions for (3) and for (1) satisfying specific relations.

In a pneumatic tire with a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions, a transponder is embedded in an outer side of the carcass layer in the tire width direction, a rubber member having the largest storage modulus at 20 C. of rubber members located on an outer side of the transponder in the tire width direction has a modulus M50out(0 C.) during 50% deformation at 0 C. and a modulus M50out(20 C.) during 50% deformation at 20 C. that satisfy a relationship 0.50M50out(0 C.)/M50out(20 C.)<1.00, and a rubber member having the largest storage modulus at 20 C. of rubber members located on an inner side of the transponder in the tire width direction has a modulus M50in(0 C.) during 50% deformation at 0 C. and a modulus M50in(20 C.) during 50% deformation at 20 C. that satisfy a relationship 0.25M50in(0 C.)/M50in(20 C.)<1.00.

The invention relates to improving the endurance of the beads of a radial tire for a heavy vehicle of construction plant type by reducing the cracking that starts on the axially outer face of the turn-up and spreads through the polymer coating and filler materials. According to the invention, a transition element made of a polymer transition material, is in contact, via its axially inner face, with the polymer coating material of the axially outer face of the turn-up and, via its axially outer face, with the polymer filler material, and the elastic modulus at 10% elongation of the polymer transition material is somewhere between the respective elastic moduluses at 10% elongation of the polymer coating material and of the polymer filler material.

A pneumatic tire can include a carcass, a belt layer, and reinforcing rubber layers. Turned-up portions of a carcass ply each include a first portion located between a body portion and the belt layer, a second portion adjacent to each reinforcing rubber layer in a tire axial direction, on an outer side in a tire radial direction with respect to a rim flange of a standardized rim, and a third portion located between the first portion and the second portion. A length of the third portion is 0.8 to 1.4 times a sum (La+Lb) of a length La of the first portion and a length Lb of the second portion.

A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions embedded with bead cores, and a carcass. The carcass includes a turned up ply including a main body portion extending between the bead cores, and a pair of turned up portions turned up around the bead cores from axially inside to outside. Each bead portion is provided with an inner apex rubber extending radially outward from the bead core between the main body portion and the turned up portion and an outer apex rubber arranged axially outside the turned up portion. The inner apex rubber has a radial height of from 18 to 30 mm. A buttress thickness D, a maximum width thickness E, and a bead thickness F satisfy expressions E4.5 mm, F9.0 mm, E/D=0.6 to 0.9, and F/E=1.7 to 2.2.

A tyre (1) for motorcycle wheels is described comprising a carcass structure (2), a belt structure (6) applied at a radially outer position with respect to the carcass structure (2), and a tread band (8) applied at a radially outer position with respect to the belt structure (6), wherein the carcass structure (2) comprises a carcass layer (2a) which comprises a plurality of reinforcing cords comprising one or more textile yarns comprising a plurality of textile filaments made of a material selected from rayon, PET, PEN, and PEEK, and/or hybrid reinforcing cords comprising a plurality of textile filaments made of a combination of two or more of rayon, PET, PEN, and PEEK, embedded in a vulcanized elastomeric material having a dynamic elastic modulus E measured at 70 C. and 100 Hz comprised between 5.0 and 9.0 MPa and a tandelta measured at 70 C. and 100 Hz comprised between 0.130 and 0.170. The vulcanized elastomeric material also comprises a white silica-based reinforcing filler and a residual unreacted amount of a silane coupling agent of the white silica-based reinforcing filler, expressed as an amount of silicon measured by ICP-OES, greater than or equal to 70 ppm.

A motor vehicle tire is designed for standardized manufacture of its carcass reinforcement comprising two layers. A first layer (41) is anchored in the two beads (50) by a turn-up (53) around a bead wire (51), so as to form, in each bead, a main part (52) and a turn-up (53). A second layer (42) is laid axially and radially on the outside of the first carcass layer, and positioned in the bead axially on the inside of the turn-up of the first carcass layer. The first carcass layer (41) has a turn-up (53) of length HNC1 ranging between 10% and 30% of the height of one of the sidewalls (30); the length LREC is comprised in the range [0.6*HNC1; 0.9*HNC1], and the maximum value of the distances (LNDEG, LNDED) is comprised in the range [2; 18] mm.