A pneumatic tire including: a pair of bead cores; a carcass that is formed spanning the pair of bead cores; a belt layer that is disposed at a tire radial direction outside of the carcass and that is formed by covering a cord with a thermoplastic resin having an elastic modulus of from 100 MPa to 10,000 MPa and winding the cord around a tire circumferential direction; and a tread that is provided at a tire radial direction outside of the belt layer. A thickness of the pneumatic tire at a tire equatorial plane is no greater than 5 mm.

A reinforcement structure for a polymer ply includes a plurality of flat woven cords. Each flat woven cord has a width between 0.5 mm and 1.6 mm and a thickness between 0.2 mm and 0.8 mm thereby producing the reinforcement structure with an overall width between 25.0 mm and 26.0 mm. Each flat woven cord includes materials with melting points between 130° C. and 230° C.

A tire includes a carcass ply, two beads, two sidewalls, and a crown reinforcing zone. The carcass ply connects the two beads by way of the two sidewalls. The crown reinforcing zone is positioned radially external to the carcass ply. The crown reinforcing zone includes a plurality of reinforcing strips disposed in at least two layers. The reinforcing strips are coated in an elastomeric composition. A mean overlap between the reinforcing strips of the two layers is greater than 40%. The reinforcing strips are made of a thermoplastic film having a modulus greater than 0.9 GPa, and preferably greater than 2 GPa, in a main direction and in a transverse direction.

A hooping reinforcement of a tire for a heavy duty civil engineering type vehicle is disclosed. The crown reinforcement (3) of the tire (1), radially on the inside of a tread (2), comprises a protective reinforcement (6), a working reinforcement (5) and a hooping reinforcement (7). Said hooping reinforcement (7) has an axial width at most equal to the smallest axial width (L61, L62) of the two working layers (61, 62), and comprises at least two hooping layers (71, 72) that are formed from strips each made up of elastic metal reinforcers. Each hooping layer (71, 72) is made up of an axial juxtaposition of contiguous turns of the strip (8), which are circumferentially wound around the working layer (51). Each strip (8) is at least 35 mm and at most 250 mm thick, and its distributed breaking tension is at least equal to 100 daN/mm.

A resin-metal composite member for a tire comprises a metal member (27) and a coating resin layer (28) that covers the metal member (27) and contains a resin composition. The resin composition includes a thermoplastic elastomer, at least one additive resin selected from an amorphous resin having an ester bond or a polyester-based thermoplastic resin, and at least one chemical selected from a carbodiimide compound, a polyfunctional epoxy compound, or a polyfunctional amino compound.

Provided is a pneumatic tire comprising a carcass straddling between bead portions and extending toroidally, a belt including a cord, and a coating material made of a resin or a rubber and with which the cord is coated, the belt being disposed at a position outside a crown portion of the carcass in a tire radial direction, and a resin layer disposed between the carcass and the belt or at a position outside the belt in the tire radial direction, the resin layer being in contact with the coating material of the belt, and an outer end of the resin layer in a tire width direction is located, in the tire width direction, at the same position as in an outer end of the belt in the tire width direction, or located, in the tire width direction, outside the outer end of the belt in the tire width direction.

The tire comprises a carcass ply connecting two beads via two sidewalls, the carcass ply being surmounted radially towards the outside of the tire by a crown reinforcing zone which is itself surmounted radially towards the outside of the tire by a tread, the crown reinforcing zone comprising a plurality of reinforcing strips arranged over at least one ply of strips. The strips are arranged so that they are juxtaposed and at an angle less than or equal to 15 with respect to the circumferential direction. Each reinforcing strip is made up of a laminate of at least 3 composite layers, each composite layer containing oriented fibers having a tensile modulus greater than or equal to 55 GPa, which are parallel to one another and coated in a polymer matrix.

The tire comprises a carcass ply connecting two beads via two sidewalls, the carcass ply being surmounted radially towards the outside of the tire by a crown reinforcing zone which is itself surmounted radially towards the outside of the tire by a tread, the crown reinforcing zone comprising a plurality of reinforcing strips arranged over at least one ply of strips. The strips are arranged so that they are juxtaposed and at an angle less than or equal to 15 with respect to the circumferential direction. Each reinforcing strip is made up of a laminate of at least 3 composite layers, each composite layer containing oriented fibers having a tensile modulus less than or equal to 30 GPa, which are parallel to one another and coated in a polymer matrix.

The tire includes: a carcass toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions; a spiral cord layer arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of a crown portion of the carcass and in which an upper layer and a lower layer are formed by spirally winding a reinforcing cord; and an auxiliary belt layer arranged on the outer side in the tire radial direction of the spiral cord layer. At least at ends in a tire width direction of a region where the spiral cord layer and the auxiliary belt layer are laminated, a 100% modulus of at least a rubber other than a coating rubber of the auxiliary belt layer among rubbers interposed between the spiral cord layer and the auxiliary belt layer is lower than a 100% modulus of the coating rubber of the auxiliary belt layer.

A metal-resin composite member for tires, the metal-resin composite member comprising: a metal cord; and a resin layer, wherein: the resin layer is formed from a resin mixture that contains a polyester thermoplastic elastomer and an ester bond-containing amorphous resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 40 C. or higher, and a content ratio of the amorphous resin is not higher than 50% by mass of the resin mixture.