The bead portion of the pneumatic tire includes a bead structure having a bead core composed of a bead cord, and an annular plate which extends to the tire circumferential direction and is formed of a resin material. The annular plate has a planar first annular ring portion extending to the tire circumferential direction and a second annular ring portion positioned outside the tire radial direction of the first annular portion and extending to the tire circumferential direction, the first annular portion is provided along the bead structure, and the second annular portion is further inclined to the outside in tire width direction of the first annular portion.

With a pneumatic tire not mounted on a rim, in a meridian cross-section a first line is parallel with an innermost bottom side of a bead core in a radial direction and passes through an outermost projection of the bead core in a lateral direction, a second line is orthogonal with the first line at the outermost projection, a third line is orthogonal with the first line and passes through an intersection of a rim cushion rubber, a distance between the second and third lines is 2.0 to 4.0 mm, a shortest distance between an innermost projection of the bead core in the lateral direction and a cord of a carcass layer is 0.6 to 1.4 mm, and a shortest distance between an innermost end of the bottom side of the bead core in the lateral direction and the cord of the carcass layer is 1.2 to 2.2 mm.

A tire (1) for a passenger vehicle exhibits improved performance in terms of rolling resistance without adversely affecting the transverse cornering stiffness. The bead (50) comprises a filler layer (70) and a lateral reinforcing layer (60) is made more flexible by the use of low-hysteresis materials. The transverse cornering stiffness is increased by managing the contact between the bead (50) and the mounting rim (100). In a first section located in the contact patch, in at least a first bead, the length of the rim contact curve, LADC, is measured. In a second section located opposite the contact patch in relation to the axis of rotation of the tire, in at least a second bead, the length of the rim contact curve, LCJ, is measured. The ratio of the difference in the lengths, i.e. 100*(LADC?LCJ)/LCJ, is greater than or equal to 30.

In a pneumatic tire, a bead filler is radially outward of a bead core, a carcass turned up end is radially inward of an outer side end of the bead filler, the turned up end is spaced from a carcass body, a reinforcement layer is laterally outward of the bead filler, a sidewall rubber extends from a sidewall to the bead, an inner rubber reinforcing layer is between the bead filler and the reinforcement layer and adjacent to the turned up end, a crack suppression layer is between the reinforcement layer and the sidewall rubber, the crack suppression layer extends 5 mm or more from where the crack suppression layer overlaps, the reinforcement layer contacts the carcass body radially outwardly of the bead filler, and a 100% modulus Kc.sub.M100 of the crack suppression layer is at least 1.5 times that of the sidewall rubber.

A heavy-duty pneumatic tire includes a section width being equal to or less than 335 mm, an aspect ratio being equal to or less than 55%, and a toroidal carcass extending between axially spaced bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions, wherein the carcass includes a carcass ply which includes a main portion and a turn-up portion, a belt layer disposed radially outward of the carcass in the tread portion, a sidewall rubber defining an outer sidewall profile of each sidewall portion, and a chafer rubber defining an outer bead profile of each bead portion, wherein in each bead portion, on a straight line that is perpendicular to the main portion of the carcass ply and passes a radially inner end of the sidewall rubber, the chafer rubber has a thickness of from 40% to 60% of a thickness of the bead portion.

A pneumatic tire comprising a tread, a sidewall, a bead portion having a bead core, a bead reinforcing layer reinforcing the bead portion, and a carcass ply moored on a bead core of the bead portion, wherein the bead reinforcing layer and adjacent members adjacent to the bead reinforcing layer are each composed of a rubber composition containing an amine type antioxidant, 0.3 to 8 parts by mass of the amine type antioxidant is contained in the bead reinforcing layer based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, the adjacent member adjacent to the bead reinforcing layer and the bead reinforcing layer satisfy the following formula.

3B/A8

A: Content (wt %) of amine type antioxidant in bead reinforcing layer
B: Content (wt %) of amine type antioxidant in the adjacent member

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, an organic fiber reinforced layer, and a first reinforcing rubber layer. A distance from a second line segment to a third line segment is from 4 mm to 12 mm, a complex modulus of the first reinforcing rubber layer is from 6 MPa to 10 MPa, an elongation at break of the first reinforcing rubber layer is from 300% to 450%, and a difference between a first height and a second height is from 3 mm to 15 mm.

A pneumatic tire includes a carcass ply wound up from an inner side to an outer side around bead cores, chafers wound up from an outer side to an inner side around the bead cores, and an inner liner rubber which is arranged in an inner side of the carcass ply, wherein a squeegee rubber having a higher modulus than the inner liner rubber is provided closer to the inner liner rubber side than the chafers between the carcass ply and the inner liner rubber, and the squeegee rubber is arranged so as to cover inside wound-up ends of the chafers, and is provided with a thick portion which is thicker than the inner liner rubber, and thin portions which are arranged respectively in an inner side and an outer side in the tire diametrical direction of the thick portion and are thinner than the inner liner rubber.

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.