A pneumatic tire includes cross belts and one or more protective belts provided in the tire radial direction. A width of a widest protective belt is greater than a width of any of the cross belts. In the tire profile, a maximum projection position of the widest protective belt is A, an end position of the widest protective belt is B, a position at which a straight line a passing through position A extending in the direction normal to a tread surface intersects with the tread surface is A, and a position at which a straight line b passing through position B extending in the direction normal to the tread surface intersects with the tread surface is B. An angle formed between a first straight line that links position A and position B and a second straight line that links position A and position B is from 0? to 15?.

A pneumatic tire includes a tread rubber region 5 a belt region 6 including a belt 61 and a contact patch pressure reducing rubber region 7, wherein tread rubber region 5 includes base rubber layer 51 and cap rubber layer 52. The two ends of the tread surface at shoulder lug 55 have first end 551 and a second end (not shown) which is located toward an interior in a tire width direction from first end 551. A contact patch pressure reducing rubber region 7 is disposed at a location between belt 61 and base nibber layer 51. The modulus of contact patch pressure reducing rubber region 7 is lower than the modulus of base rubber layer 51 and is lower than the modulus of cap rubber layer 52.

Tire having at least one carcass reinforcement, a tread, a belt reinforcer having a first and a second end and: a reinforcing ply, having a transverse half-width L2, having a reinforcing polymer layer between two layers of coating rubber, at least one hooping ply, surmounting the reinforcing ply, having a transverse half-width L1, and filamentary reinforcing elements, parallel two by two, forming an angle at most equal to 7 with respect to the circumferential direction, the tire having at least one layer of edge uncoupling rubber, positioned at least radially between the hooping ply and the reinforcing ply and positioned at at least one transverse end of the belt reinforcer, the layer of edge uncoupling rubber having a total length between 10 and 40 mm and a thickness between 0.2 and 1.2 mm, having at least one reinforcing ply, and at at least one end of the belt reinforcer, the half-widths L1 and L2 are different, and manifest a difference (L1L2) between 5 and 10 mm.

Provided is a pneumatic tire for preventing the occurrence of premature wear at tire width direction edge portions due to the use of an endless inclined belt. The pneumatic tire includes two or more layers of inclined belts formed by winding rubber strips S each composed of a plurality of paralleled and rubber coated cords in a direction inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction while folding back the rubber strips at both width direction ends. Rubber members G are arranged between the rubber strips S layered at the tire width direction edge portions of the inclined belts.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of three working layers having between ends thereof two layers of rubber compound Ci. Thickness of the three working layers is <5 mm with individual metal wires as reinforcing elements of diameter <0.50 mm and a distance therebetween being strictly <1 mm. The axial width of each working layer is >60% that of the tread. Distance d.sub.i between two working layers separated by a layer of rubber compound Ci and measured at the end of the axially narrowest working layer in contact therewith is such that 0.5<d.sub.i<2.5 mm, and, in a meridian plane, the thickness of at least one layer of rubber compound Ci is substantially constant over the axial width between the axially inner end of a layer of rubber compound Ci and the end of the axially narrowest working layer in contact therewith.

A farm tire including a carcass; a tread supported by the carcass and having a number of lugs; a tread belt interposed between the carcass and the tread, and having an outer tread ply and an inner tread ply, which are superimposed and each have a number of metal cords embedded in a rubber strip; the tire. The farm tire also includes two tread ply wedges, each interposed between the lateral ends of the two tread plies; and protective caps covering the two ends of each of the tread plies, each made of rubber and folded into a U about the respective ply end; wherein the protective cap of the inner tread ply is partly defined by an outer appendix of the corresponding tread ply wedge.

A tire (1) for a vehicle of the construction plant type, having a carcass reinforcement (4) and a crown reinforcement (3), with at least five crown layers (311, 312, 321, 322, 331, 332) having metal reinforcers. The protective layer (312) has elastic reinforcers having a tensile modulus at most equal to 110 GPa. The rubbers, referred to as crown decoupling rubbers (6), that are located around the axial ends of the crown layers (311, 312, 321, 322, 331, 332) have an elongation at break at least equal to 500%, and a dynamic loss tan at most equal to 0.06. A crown filler rubber (5) between the axial end of the axially widest working layer (321) and the carcass reinforcement (4) possibly has an elongation at break at least equal to 650% and a dynamic loss tan, at 100 C. at 10 Hz, at most equal to 0.07.

A tire having a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers having unequal axial widths, a layer C of rubber mixture being positioned between at least the ends of the said at least two working crown layers, and the crown reinforcement having at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements positioned radially between two working crown layers. The distance d between the end of the axially narrowest working layer and the working layer separated from the axially narrowest working layer by the layer C of rubber mixture is such that 1.1<d<2.2, being the diameter of the reinforcing elements of the said at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements, and, in a meridian plane, the thickness of the layer C of rubber mixture is substantially uniform.

Provided is a steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles which, when applied to a belt of a tire, can attain lightweight without reducing the durability of the tire, and in particular, to a steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles in which the properties of a treat after rubberizing are excellent and a pneumatic radial tire using the same. Also provided is a steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles comprising a core formed by arranging two core filaments 1 in parallel without being twisted together, and N (2N4) sheath filaments 2 which are twisted together around the core. Letting the diameter of the core filament 1 be d1, and the diameter of the sheath filament 2 be d2, d1>d2.

In a pneumatic tire, both of a thickness of the first belt layer and a thickness of the second belt layer in the tire center portion are 1.00 mm or less, and when the shortest distance between the cord of the second belt layer and the cord of the first belt layer in the tire center portion is defined as a, and the shortest distance between a cord closest to an end of the second belt layer and a cord of the first belt layer is defined as b, b/a is 1.8 to 4.0, and at an end of the belt, an end rubber is disposed in a predetermined manner on a tire radially inner side of the first belt layer, between the first belt layer and the second belt layer, and on a tire radially outer side the second belt layer.