A resin-covered cord provided at a tire is configured with plural arrayed reinforcing cords that are covered with a covering resin. A belt is configured with the resin-covered cord that is wound in a spiral pattern, and an array direction of the reinforcing cord is inclined with respect to a tire axial direction. Portions of the resin-covered cord that are adjacent to each other in the tire axial direction are joined together at mutual contact portions (joined portions).

A motorcycle tire comprises a tread reinforcement including a jointless band ply. The jointless band ply has a developed width Wa of not more than 65% of the developed tread width TWe. The tread portion has a tread profile comprising a crown arc portion having a radius R1 of curvature and a pair of shoulder arc portions having a radius R2 of curvature. The radius R1 is smaller than the radius R2 and smaller than 50% of the maximum tire cross-section width Wt. In a normal state of the tire, the axial ends of the crown arc portion are respectively positioned axially inward of the outer edges of the jointless band ply.

A tire includes an electronic device, such as a RFID chip, within the body of the tire. For particular embodiments, a RFID chip is disposed within a tire belt. The RFID chip may be disposed on an inner or outer belt. The RFID chip is connected to at least one steel cords forming an antenna for the RFID chip. The steel cords are disposed at a first angle and second angle with respect to the tire equator. A method of joining the RFID chip to a tire cord is also provided.

The present technology pertains to a pneumatic tire (1) comprising: a pair of bead portions (2); sidewall portions (3) connected to the pair of bead portions; and a tread portion (10) connected to the sidewall portions. A ratio between a total width (SW) and an outer diameter (OD) of the pneumatic tire satisfies the relationship SW/OD0.3. Moreover, if the length along a tread profile (12) from a first side second reference point (Q1) to a second side second reference point (Q2) is the developed tread width (TDW), and an angle formed between a straight line that connects the second reference points and the profile center (cc), and a straight line parallel to the tire width direction is an amount of depression (), the following relationships are satisfied: 0.8TDW/SW<1, and 1.54.5.

Pneumatic vehicle tire includes a carcass, a belt with at least three belt plies arranged one on top of the other in a radial direction and being arranged radially outside the carcass and a profiled tread arranged radially outside the belt. The at least three belt plies include a radially inner belt ply and a radially outer belt ply are working plies having parallel strength members that are embedded in rubber so that, when viewed in a circumferential direction of the vehicle tire, the strength members of the radially inner belt ply have an opposing axial direction of inclination to the strength members of the radially outer belt ply. A generally zero-degree ply is arranged between and in contact with the two working plies.

A tire including a spiral cord layer constituted by a reinforcing cord in a crown portion of the tire, in which the occurrence of separation between the spiral cord layer and an auxiliary belt layer is suppressed when the auxiliary belt layer is arranged on a tire radial-direction outer side of the spiral cord layer. The tire includes: a carcass which toroidally extends between a pair of bead portions; and a spiral cord layer which is arranged on the tire radial-direction outer side of the carcass in the crown portion and in which an upper layer and a lower layer are formed by spirally winding a reinforcing cord. An auxiliary belt layer is arranged on the tire radial-direction outer side of the spiral cord layer, and belt cords of the auxiliary belt layer have an angle in a range of 30 to 90 with respect to a tire circumferential direction.

A tire that has a spiral cord layer including reinforcing cords on a tire crown portion to inhibit breakage of the reinforcing cords caused by a projection input given to an end of the spiral cord layer during running. The tire includes: a carcass toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions; and a spiral cord layer 1 disposed tire-radially outside the crown portion of the carcass and including an upper layer and a lower layer that are formed by spirally winding the reinforcing cords. An auxiliary belt layer is disposed tire-radially outside the spiral cord layer and an angle of belt cords in the auxiliary belt layer with respect to a tire circumferential direction is in a range of 0 to 45.

The invention relates to a tire with radial carcass reinforcement, made up of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself radially capped by a tread, the said tread being connected to two beads via two side walls, the said tire comprising a first layer of polymer compound radially between the carcass reinforcement and the radially innermost layer of reinforcing elements of the crown reinforcement. According to the invention, the said first layer of polymer compound constitutes a buffer zone designed to trap oxygen on the outside of the said first layer, the axial width of the said first layer being at least equal to 70% of the width of the radially innermost layer of reinforcing elements of the crown reinforcement.

To provide a rubber compound for tires, a pneumatic tire and an airless tire capable of improving the steering stability of the tire while exerting excellent low fuel consumption performance. A rubber compound for tires characterized in that, of vulcanized rubber's physical properties, a complex elastic modulus E*.sub.70 (unit: MPa) and a loss tangent tan .sub.70 under initial strain of 10%, dynamic strain of 2% and temperature of 70 degrees C., satisfy 90<E*.sub.70<250, and E*.sub.70/tan .sub.70>800. A pneumatic tire provided with a rubber member made of the above-mentioned rubber compound. An airless tire provided with a rubber member made of the above-mentioned rubber compound. An airless tire provided in a tread ring with a shear rubber layer made of the above-mentioned rubber compound.

In a tire, a tire outer diameter OD is in a range 200 mmOD660 mm. A total tire width SW is in a range 100 mmSW400 mm. A carcass layer is formed by layering two layers of carcass plies formed by covering organic fiber cords with coating rubbers. The organic fiber cords of the two layers of the carcass plies have cord angles in a range of 80 degrees or more and 100 degrees or less with respect to a tire circumferential direction. A tensile strength Tcs per a width of 50 mm of each of the two layers of the carcass plies (13A, 13B) is in a range 17 N/mmTcs/OD120 N/mm with respect to the tire outer diameter OD.