A motorcycle tire comprises a carcass and a tread reinforcing layer. The tread reinforcing layer comprises a belt and a band. The band is composed of a jointless band ply having a developed width less than 65% of the developed tread width. The belt is composed of at least one belt ply having a developed width of 65% or more of the developed tread width. At first positions, the intersecting angle between the belt cords and the carcass cords is 20 to 60 degrees. In the tread portion in a tire meridional cross sectional view, a single arc passing through a point on the tread surface at the tire equator and two points on the tread surface at the tread edges has a radius of not more than 0.7 times the maximum tire cross-section width.

Technique to increase the endurance of tires comprising two crossed working layers (41, 42), comprising mutually parallel reinforcing elements forming, with the circumferential direction (XX) of the tire, an angle which is at least equal to 20 and at most equal to 50. The reinforcing elements are made up of individual metal threads or monofilaments having a cross section which is at least equal to 0.20 mm and at most equal to 0.5 mm. The tire also comprises grooves comprising a radially inferior zone Z1 having a radial height h1 equal to D/3, and a radially superior zone Z2 having a radial height h2 equal to 2D/3. These grooves have a mean width W at least equal to 1 mm and a depth D at least equal to 5 mm, and a maximum width W1 of zone 1, at least equal to 2 mm and a width of zone 2 at most equal to 1 mm.

A tire for a heavy construction-type vehicle includes a tread, a radial carcass reinforcement, and a crown reinforcement. The crown reinforcement includes a working reinforcement and a hoop reinforcement. The working reinforcement includes two working layers, each of which includes inelastic metallic reinforcers that are crossed from one layer to a next layer and that make an angle in a range of from 15 to 40 with respect to a circumferential direction. The hoop reinforcement, which is a ply that is wound circumferentially to form a radial stack of at least two hooping layers, includes circumferential elastic metallic reinforcers that make an angle equal to at most 2.5 with respect to the circumferential direction. The hoop reinforcement is radially positioned between the working layers, and the circumferential metallic reinforcers of the hoop reinforcement have a force at break equal to at least 800 daN.

A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass layer, a belt layer disposed on an outer side of the carcass layer in a tire radial direction, and a tread rubber disposed on the outer side of the belt layer in the tire radial direction. The belt layer formed by laminating an angle belt having a belt angle 45 and 70 in absolute values, a pair of cross belts, having belt angles of 10 and 45 in absolute values and having belt angles of mutually opposite signs, and a circumferential reinforcing layer having a belt angle within a range of 5 with respect to a tire circumferential direction. A tread width TW and a cross-sectional width Wca of the carcass layer have a relationship such that 0.82TW/Wca0.92. A width Ws of the circumferential reinforcing layer and a cross-sectional width Wca of the carcass layer such that 0.60Ws/Wca0.70.

A pneumatic vehicle tire having a carcass with textile carcass strength elements, a belt arranged radially outside the carcass, and a belt bandage ply of a belt bandage arranged radially outside the belt, wherein the belt bandage ply has textile cords as strength elements, which are arranged substantially parallel to one another and are embedded in elastomeric material, wherein the cords each have precisely two yarns, wherein the two yarns are yarns of polyamide 6.6 (PA 6.6), which have the same linear density and are end-twisted together to form the cord.

A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, made up of a single layer of reinforcing elements anchored in each of the beads by being turned up around a bead wire, reinforced by a stiffener. The two working crown layers are the only ones present to form the crown reinforcement over at least 75% of the width of the tread, the absolute value of the difference between the absolute values of the angles 2 and 1 being greater than 8, 2 being greater than 1 in terms of absolute value, the mean angle satisfying the relationship 13+131*exp(L/100)<<20+164*exp(L/100), the reinforcing elements of the carcass reinforcement being cords which, in the test referred to as the permeability test, yield a flow rate of less than 20 cm.sup.3/min, a rubber compound being present within the cords, and, in the sidewall of the tire, the profile of the outer surface of the tire is at a constant distance from the carcass reinforcement layer between the points F and A, and meets the outer surface of the bead at the point C, forming two successive circular arcs.

In a tire having a belt ply that is formed from ply strips arranged at intervals in the tire circumferential direction, in order to prevent deterioration in durability when high modulus organic fibers are used in a band cord, said tire is provided with a belt layer comprising a belt ply, and a band layer comprising a band ply positioned to the outside of the belt layer in the radial direction. The belt ply is formed by a plurality of ply strips, which are narrow and have a prescribed length, arranged side-by-side with intervals therebetween in the tire circumferential direction. The band ply is formed by a ply tape, which is narrow and long, wound spirally in the tire circumferential direction. The band cord comprises a composite cord in which first strands, which comprise high modulus organic fibers, and second strands, which comprise low modulus organic fibers and are narrower than the first strands, are twisted together.

Pneumatic radial tire comprising a tread (4) forming the outermost layer of the tire (1) and at least one belt (5) on top of the carcass (3) forming the inner layer of the tire (1). As cap ply reinforcement layer (6) hybrid cords are applied comprising polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and nylon 6.6 multifilament yarns to provide a pneumatic radial tire having high speed durability and a low flatspot feature.

A pneumatic tire includes a carcass, a tread portion and a belt layer having a first inclined belt ply, circumferential direction belt ply, and second inclined belt ply. Ground contact edge side belt plies extend from tire width direction end portions of the second inclined belt ply toward tire width direction outsides, at a tire radial direction outside of the carcass. With respect to a tire circumferential direction, an angle of cords of the first inclined belt ply is from 45 to 60, an angle of a cord of the circumferential direction belt ply is 5 or less, an angle of cords of the second inclined belt ply is from 30 to 60, and an angle of cords of the ground contact edge side belt plies exceeds 5 and is 30 or less. A distance dimension of the ground contact edge side belt plies is 80% or more of a ground contact width.

The present invention relates to a tyre (1) comprising: a carcass (5); at least one high elongation belt (1, 2, 3, 4), being applied as a single cord externally to said carcass (5); and an external tread portion (6), provided with two or more grooves (7) extending according to a circumferential direction (L) around said tread portion (6), wherein the axial width (Wg) of at least one of said grooves (7), measured according to an axial direction (A) parallel to an axis of rotation (R) of said tyre (10) and orthogonal to said circumferential direction (L), is at most equal to 2 millimeters.