A tire that includes a band and a belt, the band is layered outward of the belt in a radial direction of the tire, the belt includes two or more layers layered in the radial direction of the tire, the band includes a rubber composition and a polyester cord, each of the two or more layers of the belt includes a rubber composition and a cord, and a gauge between the cords of two adjacent layers is not greater than 0.40 mm.

In my pneumatic tire, a circumferential belt is formed by a spirally wound band strip, the tread includes at least three circumferential land portions, cords of the inclined belt layer are steel cords, the total cross-sectional area of the steel cords per 25 mm of width perpendicular to the extending direction of the steel cords is from 2.3 to 4.0 mm.sup.2, a gap is present in the tire width direction between each lap of the band strip, and the relational expression W/{(w+2d)+0.3w}1.0 is satisfied, where W is the width in the tire width direction of the circumferential land portion with the smallest width among the circumferential land portions, w is the width of the band strip in the tire width direction, and d is the width of the gap in the tire width direction between each lap of the band strip.

The present invention provides a thin layer capply and a low-weight tire to which the thin layer capply is applied. The thin layer capply of the present invention has effects of reducing a rolling resistance of the tire through a weight reduction and improving fuel efficiency of a vehicle in which the tires are mounted while maintaining stiffness required for the tire, by forming the cord spinning layer in a thin tape form by spinning and depositing a plurality of cord strands, rather than twisting a plurality of cord strands to form the capply cord.

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with a band layer disposed radially inside a tread rubber provided with a first circumferential groove. Cords of the band layer are a hybrid cord formed by twisting together a first filament and a second filament having an elastic modulus lower than that of the first filament. In a region radially inside the first circumferential groove, a maximum thickness t1 of topping rubber on the radially outer side of the band cords is not more than 1.0 mm; a minimum distance d1 from the bottom of the first circumferential groove to the radially outer surface of the band layer is not more than 2.0 mm; and a distance d2 from a groove edge of the first circumferential groove to the radially outer surface of the band layer is not more than 15.0 mm.

A tire comprising a tire frame having a circular shape and a metal-resin composite, the metal-resin composite having a structure in which a metal member, an adhesive layer and a resin layer are disposed in this order, the adhesive layer comprising a thermoplastic resin and carbon black, and a content of carbon black in the adhesive layer being greater than 0% by mass and less than 10% by mass with respect to the entire adhesive layer.

A tire comprising a tire frame that comprises a resin material and has a circular shape, and a belt portion that comprises a metal-resin composite that is disposed around the tire frame, the metal-resin composite having a structure in which a metal member, an adhesive layer and a resin layer are disposed in this order, and satisfying the following Formula (1) and Formula (2):

23number of metal-resin composites in the belt portion/width of the belt portion (mm)100 Formula (1):

1/{(a/A)+(b/B)}210Formula (2): wherein, in Formula (2), A is a water permeation index of the resin layer, B is a water permeation index of the adhesive layer, a is a thickness of the resin layer (mm) and b is a thickness of the adhesive layer (mm).

A tire including: a circular tire frame containing a resin material; and a metal-resin complex wound around an outer circumferential portion of the tire frame, which includes a metal member, an adhesive layer and a resin layer in this order, and in which a tensile elastic modulus of the adhesive layer is less than a tensile elastic modulus of the resin layer.

A pneumatic radial tire includes a carcass structure having a pair of sidewalls and a crown, a pair of beads, a tread, a belt structure, and a plurality of reinforcing hoops. The plurality of spaced apart reinforcing hoops are disposed intermediate the crown of the carcass structure and the tread, and are formed of a rigid material coated in an elastomeric material. The plurality of reinforcing hoops includes a pair of outer reinforcing hoops disposed adjacent the sidewalls of the carcass, and an at least one inner reinforcing hoop disposed between the outer reinforcing hoops.

The present invention provides a pneumatic tire having excellent durability. Provided is a pneumatic tire including at least one steel belt layer, at least one cap ply layer, and at least one carcass layer, the steel belt layer including a steel belt topping rubber composition which has a zinc oxide content of 8.0 parts by mass or more per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, the cap ply layer including a cap ply topping rubber composition, the carcass layer including a carcass topping rubber composition, the cap ply topping rubber composition and the carcass topping rubber composition both having stearic acid and zinc oxide contents, each per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, which satisfy the following relationships (1) and (2):

stearic acid content3.0 parts by mass,(1):

stearic acid content/zinc oxide content0.5.(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.