A pneumatic tire mountable on a 15 tapered specified rim includes a bead core, a carcass, a steel cord reinforcing layer, a bead rubber layer, an organic fiber reinforced layer, and a first reinforcing rubber layer. A distance from a second line segment to a third line segment is from 4 mm to 12 mm, a complex modulus of the first reinforcing rubber layer is from 6 MPa to 10 MPa, an elongation at break of the first reinforcing rubber layer is from 300% to 450%, and a difference between a first height and a second height is from 3 mm to 15 mm.

The reinforcing structure for a tire is in the form of a stratified assembly formed of two layers of reinforcing strips of completely connected cross section, and flattened in shape. According to the method, the strips of each layer are laid side by side in a main direction of laying. The strips of the first layer are spaced apart by a distance that is less than the width of the strips of the second layer and in such a way that the edges of the strips of the first layer overlap the edges of the strips of the second layer. The two layers of strips are separated by a layer of uncoupling rubber.

A pneumatic tire includes a carcass ply that is wound up around a bead core from an inside to an outside in a tire axial direction; an inner metal reinforcing layer and an outer metal reinforcing layer that are wound up on an outside of the carcass ply from the inside to the outside in the tire axial direction; and a buffer layer that is provided between the inner metal reinforcing layer and the outer metal reinforcing layer, and is wound up from the inside to the outside in the tire axial direction. The buffer layer includes a rubber having a higher hardness than those of a carcass rubber configuring the carcass ply and a covering rubber configuring the inner metal reinforcing layer and the outer metal reinforcing layer.

A pneumatic tire includes an up ply, a down ply, and a cord reinforcing layer. The up ply has: a main body section and a wound section. The down ply is provided on a tire outer surface side of the up ply. The cord reinforcing layer is provided from the inner side to the outer side in the tire axial direction of the bead core to cover the up ply, and has reinforcing cords. A tip of the wound section is located outward in a tire radial direction from a rim flange. An outer end in the tire axial direction of the cord reinforcing layer is located outward in the tire radial direction from a bead upper line and inward in the tire radial direction from the rim flange. The bead upper line extends from an outer surface in the tire radial direction of the bead core.

Provided is a pneumatic tire in which fiber reinforced layers on an outer side of a steel reinforced layer in a width direction each include fiber cords arranged in one direction, the fiber cords being oriented to cross each other between layers, a radially outer end of one of the fiber reinforced layers being radially outward of a turned-up end portion of a carcass layer, a radially outer end portion of another one of the fiber reinforced layers being radially inward of the turned-up end portion and radially outward of a line segment (K). Radially inner end portions of the fiber reinforced layers are inward in the width direction of a line segment (J), and cord angles A and B of the fiber reinforced layers satisfy 20|A|45 or 70|A|90, and 20|B|45 or 70|B|90.

This tire is provided with reinforcing cord layers that reinforce a bead part. The reinforcing cord layers are such that at the bead part at the inner side of vehicle mounting, the number of layers of the reinforcing cord layers with respect to a bead filler is greater at the inner side in the direction of tire width compared to the outer side in the direction of tire width with respect to the bead filler, and at the bead part at the outer side of vehicle mounting, the number of layers of the reinforcing cord layers with respect to the bead filler is greater at the outer side in the direction of tire width compared to the inner side in the direction of tire width with respect to the bead filler.

A heavy-duty pneumatic tire includes a carcass ply including a main portion extending between bead cores and a pair of turn-up portions, a first reinforcing layer of a steel cord disposed in each bead portion in a U-shaped manner, and a second reinforcing layer of an organic fiber cord disposed in each bead portion and at least a part of the second reinforcing layer extending in a radial direction of the tire at an axially outward location of the first reinforcing layer. The second reinforcing layer includes an axially inner second ply and an outer second ply. The outer second ply has an inner end positioned below the bead core. The inner second ply has an inner end located axially inward of the inner end of the outer second ply, and has a substantially same length as the outer second ply in a tire cross-section.

A tire can include a pair of beads, a carcass, a pair of sidewall layers, and a belt. One carcass ply constituting the carcass can include a ply body and a pair of turned-up portions. A radial height of each turned-up portion can be not greater than 17% of a cross-sectional height of the tire. An average thickness F of the sidewall layer in a zone can satisfy the following formula (1) represented using a constant B, a cross-sectional width SW of the tire, and a width BW of the belt, and the constant B can satisfy the following formula (2) represented using an aspect ratio RA of the tire:

416(BW/SWB).sup.2+4F416(BW/SWB).sup.2+6,Formula (1):

and

B=0.84(0.49RA/100+1.22)Formula (2):.

Provided is a pneumatic tire in which fiber reinforced layers on an outer side of a steel reinforced layer in a width direction each include fiber cords arranged in one direction, the fiber cords being oriented to cross each other between layers, a radially outer end of one of the fiber reinforced layers being radially outward of a turned-up end portion of a carcass layer, a radially outer end portion of another one of the fiber reinforced layers being radially inward of the turned-up end portion and radially outward of a line segment (K). Radially inner end portions of the fiber reinforced layers are inward in the width direction of a line segment (J), and cord angles A and B of the fiber reinforced layers satisfy 20|A|45 or 70|A|90, and 20|B|45 or 70|B|90.