Each of at least two layers of a carcass reinforcement has a breaking force per unit width higher than 2250 daN/dm. The minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of a second layer of carcass reinforcement is strictly greater than a value equal to 20% of the minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of a first layer of carcass reinforcement. The reinforcing elements of the two layers of carcass reinforcement have a thread count of less than 750 tex. The elongation of the reinforcing elements of the second layer of carcass reinforcement is greater than 4% under a force of 20 daN, and the secant elastic modulus values under tension at 10% elongation, Mt, Mj, satisfy the relationship Mt/Mj1.

A tire including an annular tire frame composed of a plurality of resin materials, wherein an Asker D hardness Ho of a side portion of the tire frame, which side portion is to be located on an outer side in a vehicle width direction when the tire is mounted on a vehicle, is lower than an Asker D hardness Hi of a side portion of the tire frame, which side portion is to be located on an inner side in the vehicle width direction when the tire is mounted on the vehicle, and wherein a resin contained as a main component in a resin material constituting the side portion of the tire frame, which side portion is to be located on the inner side in the vehicle width direction when the tire is mounted on the vehicle, has a melting point of 140 C. or higher, or does not have a melting point and has a glass transition point of 40 C. or higher.

A tire including an annular tire frame composed of a plurality of kinds of resin materials, wherein an Asker D hardness Hi of a side portion of the tire frame, which side portion is to be located on an inner side in a vehicle width direction when the tire is mounted on a vehicle, is 0.84 times or more but less than 1.00 times an Asker D hardness Ho of a side portion of the tire frame, which side portion is to be located on an outer side in the vehicle width direction when the tire is mounted on the vehicle.

A tire assembly includes a tire for mounting on a vehicle, an elastic body disposed on an inner side of the tire, and a power generation body disposed between an inner surface of the tire and the elastic body. The power generation body includes a first member and a second member. The first member has a first insulating film forming a first surface. The second member has a second insulating film forming a second surface that faces the first surface and contacts the first surface. The elastic body biases the power generation body toward the inner surface of the tire.

A tire can include a pair of beads, a carcass, an inner liner, and an insulation located between the carcass and the inner liner. The carcass can include one carcass ply. The carcass ply can include a plurality of carcass cords and a topping rubber. Each carcass cord can have a total fineness of not less than 6000 dtex and not greater than 9000 dtex. The insulation can be located between first and second beads. A ratio (ta/td) of a thickness to of the topping rubber located between the insulation and the carcass cords to a thickness td of the insulation can be not less than 0.2 and not greater than 0.6.

In a pneumatic tire, a carcass layer mounted between bead portions includes composite cords made of polyethylene terephthalate fiber yarn having a fineness from 420-1200 dtex and an aromatic polyamide fiber yarn having a fineness from 520-1200 dtex, and a total fineness from 940-2400 dtex, and a twist coefficient from 1600 to 2400, the composite cords having an intermediate elongation from 2.0% to 4.5% with a load of 2.0 cN, having a dimensional stability index from 2.5% to 6.0% which is a sum of a dry heat shrinkage rate at 150 C. and the intermediate elongation with the load of 2.0 cN, and having a ratio of an initial elastic modulus at 100 C. within a load range from 0 N to 44 N with respect to an initial elastic modulus at 25 C. within a load range from 0 N to 44 N, the ratio being from 76% to 94%.

Disclosed herein are vehicle tires including a tread, a carcass with at least one body ply, and a single steel cord-containing belt ply positioned radially inward of the tread and radially outward of the carcass. The single steel cord-containing belt ply comprises rubber reinforced with steel warp cords bi-axially woven with steel weft cords and have a specified bi-axial angle. Also disclosed is a vehicle tire containing the single steel cord-containing belt ply wherein the belt ply includes pick cords connecting the steel warp cords and steel weft cords.

A pneumatic tire includes a reinforcing rubber layer disposed in the sidewall portions, the reinforcing rubber layer having a crescent-like meridian cross-section. When the tire is assembled on a regular rim and in an unloaded state with an internal pressure of 0 kPa, a radius of curvature (RP) is smaller than a radius of curvature (RO), an arc of the radius of curvature (RP) joining an intersection (Pa) of a carcass layer and a straight line (La), an intersection (Pb) of the carcass layer and a straight line (Lb), and an intersection (Pc) of the carcass layer and a straight line (Lc), and an arc of the radius of curvature (RO) joining an intersection (Oa) of the straight line (La) and a tire external contour, an intersection (Ob) of the straight line (Lb) and the tire external contour, and an intersection (Oc) of the straight line (Lc) and the tire external contour.

A motorcycle tire set includes a front-wheel tire and a rear-wheel tire. Each of the front and rear-wheel tires includes a carcass, a band layer arranged radially outwardly of the carcass in the tread portion, and a tread rubber arranged radially outwardly of the band layer. The carcass includes a carcass ply including carcass cords. The band layer includes a jointless band ply in which a band cord is circumferentially wound spirally at an angle equal to or less than 5 degrees. The tread rubber includes a crown rubber portion. An angle ?1 of the carcass cords of the front-wheel tire is 65 degrees or more with respect to the tire circumferential direction. A rubber hardness of the crown rubber portion of the rear-wheel tire is greater than a rubber hardness of the crown rubber portion of the front-wheel tire.

A run flat tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 formed of a carcass ply 6A extending between a pair of bead portions 4 in a toroidal manner and a side reinforcing rubber layer 9 having a substantially crescent cross-sectional shape disposed on an inner side of the carcass at each of sidewall portions. steel cords 60 each including 1 to 4 filaments 61 having a strand diameter in a range of from 0.25 to 0.30 mm are arranged in the carcass ply 6A, and an outer diameter D of each of the steel cords 60 is not less than 0.62 mm.