Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of four working crown layers of reinforcing elements. In a meridian plane, the thickness of the four working crown layers, measured in the equatorial plane, is less than 5 mm, the reinforcing elements of the four working crown layers being individual metal wires of diameter less than 0.50 mm, the distance between the reinforcing elements, measured along the normal to the direction of the mean line of the wire, being strictly less than 1 mm, and the axial width of each of the four working crown layers being greater than 60% of the axial width of the tread.

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.

The invention relates to a bicycle tire with high riding comfort. A damping rubber insert (3) made from a highly elastic rubber is arranged between the tire tread (2) and the tire carcass. Said damping rubber insert (3) has a material thickness of between 0.2 and 2 mm, and the carcass insert ends (10) extend to a maximum of the lateral edge areas of the tire tread (2).

A radial tire includes a crown reinforcement or belt having a lightened belt structure. The lightened belt structure is constructed of a multilayer composite laminate that includes a first layer of rubber that radially surmounts, in a direction Z, two other layers of rubber. The first layer of rubber includes weakly heat-shrinkable textile circumferential reinforcers, for example, made of nylon or polyester. The two other layers of rubber are reinforced with monofilaments of high tensile steel. The first reinforcers have a diameter between 0.40 mm and 0.70 mm and a density between 70 and 130 threads/dm, and the second and third reinforcers have a diameter between 0.20 mm and 0.50 mm and a density between 120 and 180 threads/dm.

A radial tire includes a crown reinforcement or belt having a lightened belt structure. The lightened belt structure is constructed of a multilayer composite laminate that includes a first layer of rubber that radially surmounts, in a direction Z, two other layers of rubber. The first layer of rubber is reinforced with first reinforcers, which are circumferential heat-shrinkable polyester textile reinforcers. The two other layers of rubber are reinforced with second and third reinforcers, which are monofilaments of high tensile steel. The first reinforcers have a diameter between 0.40 mm and 0.70 mm and a density between 70 and 130 threads/dm, and the second and third reinforcers have a diameter between 0.20 mm and 0.50 mm and a density between 120 and 180 threads/dm.

A cord-rubber composite 11 comprises a cord array 12 of parallel steel cords 14, and an unvulcanized topping rubber 13 coating the cord array 12 and having a complex elastic modulus E* of not less than 5 MPa after vulcanization. The code array has a surface area parameter S (mm) of not less than 60 mm. The surface area parameter s (mm) is defined by the following expression: S=DPiE, wherein E is a cord count of the steel cords 14 per 5 cm width of the cord-rubber composite 11 in a direction orthogonal to longitudinal directions of the steel cords, and D is an average outer diameter (mm) of the steel cords per the 5 cm width.

A radial tire, notably for a passenger vehicle or van, has a very thin belt structure comprising a multilayer composite laminate of specific construction, with a first layer of rubber reinforced by circumferential textile reinforcers in the form of monofilaments or assemblies of monofilaments, preferably slightly heat-shrinkable, for example made of nylon or of polyester, this first layer radially (in the direction Z) surmounting two other layers of rubber, reinforced by high-strength steel monofilaments. The mean thickness of rubber, measured in the radial direction (Z), separating a first reinforcer from the second reinforcer which is closest to it, and that separating a second reinforcer from the third reinforcer which is closest to it, are both less than or at most equal to 0.35 mm.

A radial tire, notably for a passenger vehicle or van, has a lightened belt structure comprising a multilayer composite laminate of specific construction, with a first layer of rubber reinforced by heat-shrinkable circumferential textile reinforcers in the form of monofilaments or assemblies of monofilaments, for example made of nylon or of polyester, this first layer radially (in the direction Z) surmounting two other layers of rubber, reinforced by small steel cords such as, for example, carbon steel cords of construction 12.

The present invention is directed to a tire comprising a tread and a belt portion located radially below the tread, wherein the belt portion comprises a pair of working belts and a low angle belt. The low angle belt has reinforcement elements having an angle of less than 5 with a circumferential direction of the tire. In a first aspect, the low angle belt comprises a first layer and one or more further layers, wherein the first layer extends over at least 70% of the axial width of the axially largest working belt, and wherein each layer of the one or more further layers extends over at most 50% of the width of the axially largest working belt and is arranged radially below one of the shoulder grooves.

Provided is a pneumatic tire in which rolling resistance is reduced by gauge thinning of a belt, and a reduction in durability in an end of a belt layer and the deterioration of the moist heat resistive adhesiveness of the belt layer are suppressed. Each of the thickness of a first belt layer 5a and the thickness of a second belt layer 5b in the center section of the tire is 1.00 mm or less; when the shortest distance between the code 6b of the second belt layer 5b and the code 6a of the first belt layer 5a in the center section of the tire is set at a, and the shortest distance between the code 6b of the second belt layer 5b in an end and the code 6a of the first belt layer 5a is set at b, a and b satisfy a relationship represented by the following expression: 1.8 b/a4.0; and a coating rubber 7 that coats the first belt layer 5a and the second belt layer 5b includes: a rubber component including natural rubber; a resin component; and a sulfenamide vulcanization accelerator.