A pneumatic tire according to the invention includes: a pair of left and right beads 3 each including a bead cores 3a and bead fillers 3b; a carcass ply 5 extended around the bead cores 3a; and an inner liner 4 arranged on an inner peripheral side of the carcass ply 5, and is characterized in that the carcass ply 5 is wound up around the bead cores 3a from the outside in the direction of width of tire to the inside in the direction of width of tire, and a distortion restraining layer 7 configured to restrain distortion of the winding ends 5a of the carcass ply 5 is provided between the bead fillers 3b and the carcass ply 5 so as to overlap with a wind-up ends 5a of the carcass ply 5.

A tire is equipped with a radiofrequency communication module with a carcass reinforcement comprising two carcass plies such that the communication module is positioned in the bead axially on the outside of and against the second carcass ply.

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 run-flat tire comprises a tread portion, sidewall portions, bead portions, and a carcass ply extending between the bead portions. The sidewall portions are each provided therein with a sidewall reinforcing rubber layer having a crescent-shaped cross sectional shape and disposed on the axially inside of the carcass ply. The sidewall portions are each provided in the axially outer surface thereof with a rim protector which projects radially outward most on the radially outside of the radially inner edge of the sidewall reinforcing rubber layer. The bead portions are each provided therein with an axially inside core and an axially outside core between which each radially inner edge portion of the carcass ply is secured. When measured along a normal line drawn normally to the carcass ply from an apex of the rim protector, the thickness of the sidewall reinforcing rubber layer is in a range of from 29% to 35% of the thickness of the tire.

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 at the surface of contact between a first polymer filling material that is radially furthest towards the inside and in contact with the bead wire and a second polymer filling material that is radially on the outside of the first polymer filling material. According to the invention, a transition element, made of a polymer transition material, is in contact, via its radially inner face, with the first polymer filling material and is in contact, via its radially outer face, with the second polymer filling 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 first and second polymer filling materials.

[Object] A tire 2 that has quietness and durability improved without reducing steering stability, is provided.

[Solution] The tire 2 includes: a pair of beads 12; a carcass 14 that is extended on and between the beads 12 on both sides; and a pair of strips 24 that extend almost outward from the beads 12 along the carcass 14 in the radial direction. The beads 12 include cores 34, first apexes 36, and second apexes 38. The carcass 14 includes a carcass ply 44, and the carcass ply 44 includes a main portion 46 and turned-up portions 48. The turned-up portions 48 are disposed between the first apexes 36 and the second apexes 38. The turned-up portions 48 contact with the main portion 46 in portions radially outward of outer ends 42 of the first apexes 36. A position of an outer end 64 of each strip 24 is equal, in the radial direction, to a position Pb at which the maximum width is obtained, or the outer end 64 of each strip 24 is disposed radially inward of the position Pb at which the maximum width is obtained.

In an apex 34 of a tire 2, a reinforcing portion 48 is located inward of a main body 46 in an axial direction. When a position on an outer surface of the tire 2 at which position a height from a BBL is 14 mm is defined as a first point P1 and a position on the outer surface of the tire 2 at which position a height from the BBL is 20 mm is defined as a second point P2, the reinforcing portion 48 overlaps the first point P1 and the second point P2 in a radial direction. A loss tangent of the reinforcing portion 48 is equal to a loss tangent of the main body 46 or less than the loss tangent. A hardness of the reinforcing portion 48 is equal to a hardness of the main body 46 or greater than the hardness.

A tire 2 includes a pair of chafers 8 and a tag member 26. The chafer 8 comes into contact with a rim R. The tag member 26 includes an RFID tag 60. A state where a load equal to 50% of a normal load is applied to the tire 2 in the normal state and the tire 2 is brought into contact with a flat surface FS is a standard ground-contact state. In the standard ground-contact state, the RFID tag 60 is located between an axially outer end PRa of the rim R and a maximum width position PWs of the tire 2 in an axial direction, and is located between a radially outer end PRr of the rim R and the maximum width position PWs of the tire 2 in a radial direction.

A pneumatic tire comprises a bead portion including a reinforcing rubber portion disposed adjacently to an axially outer side of a carcass ply. The reinforcing rubber portion includes an inner rubber layer and an outer rubber layer. The radially outer end of the outer rubber layer is positioned radially outside the radially outer end of the inner rubber layer.

A tire 2 of the present invention includes a pair of fillers 20 turned up around beads 10. Each filler 20 has multiple cords made of steel and aligned with each other. In the tire 2, an outer surface of a chafer 8 has a bottom surface 26 that contacts with a seat surface of a rim 30. When a reference line M represents a straight line that contacts with the bottom surface 26 in a cross-section obtained by cutting the tire at the plane perpendicular to the circumferential direction, the bottom surface 26 has a depression 66 that is shaped so as to project radially outward of the reference line M. A ratio (D/L) of a maximum depth D of the depression 66 to a width L of the depression 66 is greater than or equal to 0.007 and not greater than 0.060.