A tire having four belt plies laminated at an outside circumference of the carcass. Cords at second and third belt plies among the four belt plies, as numbered from the carcass to the outside circumference, intersect, being inclined in mutually opposite fashion with respect to a tire axis. Angles of inclination with respect to the tire circumferential direction of the second and third belt plies are such that an angle at a belt end is less than an angle at a tire equator. A first mounded region that has a peak at which the angle of inclination is greater than at a periphery and that corresponds to a shoulder rib which among the plurality of ribs is provided. The peak at the first mounded region is arranged at a shoulder rib region which appears to overlap the shoulder rib as seen in plan view.

A tire 2 includes a tread 4 on which at least three circumferential grooves 24 continuously extending in a circumferential direction are formed, and a belt 14 located radially inward of the tread 4. A ratio of a center stretch, at a center portion of the belt, indicated by the follow/Mg formula (2) to a shoulder stretch, at an end portion of the belt, indicated by the following formula (1) is not less than 1 and not greater than 3, and the shoulder stretch is not less than 1%.

(Shoulder stretch)

100×(Rsa−Rsb)/Rsb  (1)

(Center stretch)

100×(Rca−Rcb)/Rcb  (2)

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°.

Pneumatic vehicle tire of radial type of construction, in particular a commercial vehicle tire, having a belt assembly (3) made up of at least three plies (8, 9, 10), namely two working plies (8, 9) and a protective ply (10) arranged radially on the outside with respect to the working plies (8, 9), wherein the protective ply (10) has reinforcing members (11) made up of one or more twisted-together steel filaments (12), wherein the steel of the steel filaments (12) of the reinforcing members (11) of the protective ply (10) can be assigned to the strength class ST or to a higher strength class, wherein the strength class ST has a tensile strength in MPa of 3980-2000 d and the strength class UT has a tensile strength in MPa of 4400-2000 d, wherein d is the diameter of a steel filament in mm.

A tyre includes a tread portion being provided with a pair of shoulder circumferential grooves on an outer surface thereof and a tread reinforcing layer disposed in the tread portion. The tread reinforcing layer includes a circumferential belt layer having a plurality of first reinforcing cords oriented along a tyre circumferential direction. The circumferential belt layer includes a pair of axially spaced first circumferential belt plies extending in radially inner regions of the pair of shoulder circumferential grooves. The pair of first circumferential belt plies is arranged apart from one another at a distance L equal to or more than 20 mm in a tyre axial direction.

Technique to increase the endurance of tires comprising two crossed working layers (41, 42), comprising mutually parallel reinforcing elements (411, 421) forming, with the circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire, an angle at least equal to 20° and at most equal to 50°, the reinforcing elements being made up of individual metal threads or monofilaments having a cross section at least equal to 0.20 mm and at most equal to 0.6 mm. The end of the monofilaments comprises flats such that they reduce the shear forces in the rubber compounds of the tire under compressive loading.

A construction vehicle tire includes a carcass layer and a belt layer formed by six belts at an outer side of the carcass layer in a tire radial direction. A fourth belt arranged fourth from the carcass layer toward the outer side in the tire radial direction among the belt layer includes steel cords arranged along a predetermined direction. The steel cord includes one core strand having a two-layer-twisted structure in which a plurality of core filaments and a sheath filament forming a sheath are twisted, and a plurality of sheath strand twisted with the core strand, the sheath strand having a layer-twisted structure in which a plurality of steel filaments are twisted. A gap between the filaments is filled with a predetermined rubber material.

A heavy duty tire includes a recess portion that is formed in a buttress portion and that opens toward a tire outside, and a first air entry and exit promotion portions, each of which is linked to a side portion of the recess portion, that is open toward the tire outside, and that includes a slope from a surface of the tire toward a bottom portion of the recess portion, such that a depth dimension from the tire surface gradually increases. An average incline angle of the slope with respect to the tire surface is no greater than 45°, and air entry and exit promotion portions are disposed at two or more locations.

A motorcycle tyre includes a tread portion, a pair of bead portions, a toroidal carcass extending between the pair of bead portions, and a band layer disposed outward in a tyre radial direction of the carcass and inside the tread portion. The band layer includes a band ply having one or more steel cords spirally wound in a tyre circumferential direction. The tyre has a parameter (A) in which a load index LI (kg) of the tyre is divided by a bending/compression stiffness ratio that is obtained by dividing a bending stiffness (g.Math.cm) of the steel cords by a compression stiffness (N/mm) of the steel cords being in a range of 1500 to 6000.

A pneumatic tire for use on trucks, the tire comprising: a tread which includes a belt reinforcement structure of only three belts, the belt structure including a pair of working belts, wherein the angle of the working belts range from about 12 degrees to about 35 degrees, wherein a low angle belt is positioned preferably between of the working belts, wherein the angle of the low angle belt is less than 5 degrees. The working belts are made of high elongation wire having an elongation at break greater than 3.5%.