An adapter for a rolling assembly having an axis of rotation (YY′) includes an axially inner end connected to a rim, an axially outer end including an outer reinforcing element and intended to come into contact, via a substantially radial axially inner face, or bearing face, with a bead, a body connecting the axially outer end to the axially inner end so as to form a single piece, including at least one main reinforcement providing the connection between the outer reinforcing element and the inner reinforcing element, and including a substantially axial adapter seat intended to come into contact with a bead. The outer reinforcing element (15) is completely axially on the outside of the bearing face (21), and the outer reinforcing element (15) is a substantially annular structure, referred to as a bead wire, of substantially polygonal section, including at least two first layers of composite and/or metallic material, and at least two second layers of rubber compound, the first and second layers being arranged mutually parallel and in alternation with each other and parallel to the axis YY′.

A monofilament made of glass-resin composite has improved properties in compression, in particular at high temperature, and comprises glass filaments embedded in a crosslinked resin. The glass transition temperature of the resin is equal to or greater than 190° C. The elongation at break of the monofilament, measured at 23° C., is equal to or greater than 4.0%. The initial tensile modulus of the monofilament, measured at 23° C., is greater than 35 GPa. The real part of the complex modulus of the monofilament, measured at 190° C. by the DMTA method, is greater than 30 GPa. Pneumatic or non-pneumatic tires are reinforced with such a composite monofilament.

A pneumatic tire includes a ply having a plurality of cords each having an average cord diameter D, and a sidewall rubber having a loss tangent tan δ The plurality of cords each includes a plurality of filaments twisted together, the plurality of filaments each having an outer diameter d. The plurality of cords each has a ratio D/d of the average cord diameter D to the outer diameter d being equal to or more than 28. The ratio D/d and the loss tangent tan δ of the sidewall rubber satisfy the following formula;

(tan δ)/(D/d)*1000≤5.5.

A pneumatic tire having a pair of bead portions are each composed of an annular bead core made of a thermoplastic resin, and a bead core covering portion made of a thermoplastic resin.

A tire (1) includes a bead member (50) having a bead core (60) and a bead filler located at an outer side of the bead core in the tire radial direction, in which the bead filler (70) is formed of a resin composition, which includes a thermoplastic resin and a thermoplastic elastomer, of which a Tan δ curve obtained by viscoelasticity measurement has at least two peaks, or at least one peak having one or more shoulders, and which has a tensile elastic modulus of from 400 to 1100 MPa.

A pneumatic radial tire having a bead portion provided therein with a bead core, wherein the bead core is wrapped with a flipper, wherein the flipper is formed of a reinforced material, wherein the flipper has an axially inner leg that extends radially outward to a radial distance Li from the reference line XX′, wherein the line XX′ extends through the geometric center of the bead core, wherein the radial distance Li is equal to or greater than the bead radius, as measured in a radial direction from line XX′.

A pneumatic radial tire having a bead portion provided therein with a bead core, and a first layer of a plurality of sheath wires surrounding the bead core, and a second layer formed of a plurality of sheath wires surrounding the first layer, wherein the second layer of shear wires has a diameter less than the sheath wires of the first layer.

The bead portion of the tire has an inner bead provided inside the tire width direction of a carcass ply and an outer bead provided outside the tire width direction of the carcass ply. The inner bead and the outer bead have a bead core portion including a bead cord formed of a metal material, and a filler portion provided outside the tire radial direction of the bead core portion and formed of a resin material. The inner bead and the outer bead sandwich a carcass ply.

Provided are a high-strength bead wire and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes preparing a wire rod containing 0.86% to 1.02% by weight of carbon, applying 5 g/m.sup.2 to 10 g/m.sup.2 of phosphate coating onto the surface of the wire rod, and drawing the wire rod onto which the phosphate coating is applied. In the drawing, the wire rod is drawn by a drawing apparatus including a drawing die capable of drawing the wire rod and a pressure die installed in front of the drawing die and capable of applying pressure to the wire rod. The diameter of the pressure die is 1.05 times to 1.20 times the diameter of the drawing die. The high-strength bead wire includes a wire rod containing 0.86% to 1.02% by weight of carbon and 5 g/m.sup.2 to 10 g/m.sup.2 of the phosphate coating applied onto the surface of the wire rod and is manufactured by the above-described method.

A resin-rubber composite includes: a resin member that has a treated surface, to which a surface treatment by means of a plasma treatment has been applied; and a rubber member that is disposed in contact with the treated surface of the resin member and includes a rubber, a filler having a silanol group, and a silane coupling agent, with a filler content of from 30 phr to 100 phr with respect to 100 phr of the rubber, and a silane coupling agent content of from 2 parts by mass to 15 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the filler.