In a pneumatic tire, a belt cover disposed on an outer side in a radial direction of a belt layer includes a cover portion having a width equal to a width of the belt cover, and edge cover portions layered on the cover portion at two locations on both sides of the cover portion. Of the edge cover portions at the two locations, one of the edge cover portions is located on a radially inner side of the cover portion, and the other of the edge cover portions is located on a radially outer side of the cover portion. The belt cover is a single strip material having a band-like shape spirally wound about a tire rotation axis, and the cover portion at least partially includes a portion where circumferential portions adjacent in the width direction of the strip material that is spirally wound overlap in the radial direction.

A tire 2 has a nominal aspect ratio of 65% or less. The tire 2 includes a tread 4, a pair of sidewalls 6, a pair of chafers 8, a pair of beads 10, and a band 40. The band 40 includes a full band 44 having ends 44e opposed to each other across an equator plane, and a pair of edge bands 46 located outward of the ends 44e of the full band 44 in a radial direction. An outer surface of each chafer 8 has a fitting recess 62 into which a flange F of a rim R fits.

Provided is a tire in which low rolling resistance is improved by using reinforcing cords containing polyamide multifilaments as reinforcing cords of a reinforcing member of the tire. In a tire (10) that includes at least one belt reinforcing layer (3) covering the full width of a belt (2), the belt reinforcing layer (3) includes, as a constituent, a rubber-cord composite that is formed of a rubber and reinforcing cords containing multifilaments of a semi-aromatic polyamide composed of a polycondensate of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid-containing dicarboxylic acid and a non-aromatic diamine, or a polycondensate of a non-aromatic dicarboxylic acid and an aromatic diamine-containing diamine acid; and, when the width of a maximum-width belt layer constituting the belt (2) is defined as W, a region of at least more than 0.35 W from a tire equatorial plane is a sparse region in terms of the end count of the reinforcing cords in the belt reinforcing layer (3), while regions on the tire width-direction outer side of the sparse region are dense regions.

The outer diameter of the pneumatic tire is 350 mm or more and 600 mm or less, and the tire width is 125 mm or more and 255 mm or less. An aspect ratio of the pneumatic tire is 40% or more and 75% or less, a rim diameter of a rim wheel is 10 inches or more and 22 inches or less, and a rim width of the rim wheel is 3.8 inches or more and 8 inches or less. The pneumatic tire satisfies the relationship of 0.78≤RW/SW≤0.99 and 0.56≤RD/OD≤0.75. The carcass has a plurality of carcass cords arranged at intervals, the carcass cords are formed of prescribed organic fibers, and the breaking strength of the carcass cords is ≥2.2 kN/cm.

A pneumatic tire for use on trucks, the tire comprising a tread and a belt structure located radially inward of the tread, the belt structure including a pair of working belts, wherein the working belts are reinforced plies each comprising parallel reinforcement elements, wherein the angle of the reinforcement elements in the respective working belt ranges from 12 degrees to 35 degrees from the circumferential direction, wherein the belt structure further includes a low angle belt positioned between the working belts comprising parallel reinforcement elements angled at less than 5 degrees from the circumferential direction, and wherein the low angle belt has folded belt edges forming a first and second narrow belt at the lateral ends of the low angle belt, and wherein the first and second narrow belt are each positioned radially inward of an axially outermost groove on each side of the tread.

A tire 2 includes a reinforcing layer 20 located between a tread 4 and a carcass 12. The reinforcing layer 20 includes a band 38 and a belt 40. The band 38 includes a full band 42 and a pair of edge bands 44. The full band 42 has an end 42e located axially outward of a shoulder circumferential groove 28s. The belt 40 includes a third belt ply 46C located radially inward of the pair of edge bands 44. A distance Y between each edge band 44 and the full band 42 or the third belt ply 46C is not less than 2.2 mm and not greater than 4.0 mm. A ratio of a tire thickness E at an end PE of a tread surface 22 to a tire thickness D at an equator plane is not less than 1.2 and not greater than 2.0.

A pneumatic tire for use on trucks, the tire comprising a tread and a belt structure located radially inward of the tread, the belt structure including a pair of working belts, wherein the working belts are reinforced plies each comprising parallel reinforcement elements, wherein the angle of the reinforcement elements in the respective working belt ranges from 12 degrees to 35 degrees from the circumferential direction, wherein the belt structure further includes a low angle belt positioned between the working belts comprising parallel reinforcement elements angled at less than 5 degrees from the circumferential direction, and wherein a first and second narrow belt is positioned on the lateral ends of the low angle belt, and wherein the first and second narrow belt are each positioned radially inward of an axially outermost groove on each side of the tread.

A pneumatic tire for use on trucks, the tire comprising a tread and a belt structure located radially inward of the tread, the belt structure including a pair of working belts, wherein the working belts are reinforced plies each comprising parallel reinforcement elements, wherein the angle of the reinforcement elements in the respective working belt ranges from 12 degrees to 35 degrees from the circumferential direction, wherein the belt structure further includes a low angle belt positioned between the working belts comprising parallel reinforcement elements angled at less than 5 degrees from the circumferential direction, and wherein a first and second narrow belt is positioned on the lateral ends of the low angle belt, and wherein the first and second narrow belt are each positioned radially inward of an axially outermost groove on each side of the tread.

The invention relates to radial-type pneumatic vehicle tires comprising at least one carcass layer (3), a profiled tread (1), a two-layer belt (2), and a belt bandage (6) which covers the belt and which comprises bandage cords that run in the circumferential direction of the tire and consist of at least one thread made of a textile material. The belt bandage (6) has a central bandage part (7) and two lateral bandage parts (8), wherein the central bandage part (7) reaches laterally beyond the edges of the radially outer belt layer (2b), and the two lateral bandage parts (8) adjoin the central bandage part (7), cover the respective remaining edge portion of the two belt layers (2b), and run axially outside of the edges of the radially inner belt layer (2a) so as to contact a carcass layer (3) portion with a width of up to 15 mm. The bandage cord in the central bandage part (7) consists of a single thread, and the bandage cord in the lateral bandage parts (8) consists of two threads twisted together.

A pneumatic tire comprising a belt formed of two inclined belt layers formed of a rubberized layer of cords extending in a manner inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction, the cords crossing each other between the layers, wherein: the two inclined belt layers have different tire widthwise widths W1 (mm) and W2 (mm); a ratio W2/W1 satisfies a relation expression 0.25≦(W2/W1)≦0.8; a tire radial outer side of the belt further includes a reinforcing belt formed of one or more circumferential belt layers formed of a rubberized layer of cords extending along the tire circumferential direction; and a circumferential rigidity of the reinforcing belt in a tire widthwise region between an end of the one inclined belt layer and an end of the other inclined belt layer is higher than a circumferential rigidity of the reinforcing belt in a tire widthwise inner side of the region.