Abstract: A tyre comprises a tread portion comprising a first tread edge and a second tread edge, and the tread portion is provided with a plurality of oblique grooves. The plurality of the oblique grooves includes a first oblique groove and a second oblique groove. Each of the first oblique grooves and the second oblique grooves has an open end and a terminating end, and a first steeply-inclined portion positioned on a side of the open end, a second steeply-inclined portion positioned on a side of the terminating end, and a mildly-inclined portion positioned between them. The second steeply-inclined portion includes a part in which an angle thereof with respect to a tyre circumferential direction is gradually decreased as it goes toward the terminating end.

Abstract: A tyre cavity noise absorber comprising a body 1 of sound absorbing material with an outer protective cover 3. The body of sound absorbing material is intended to be mounted to a wheel 2 of a wheel and tyre 6 assembly so that a surface of the body is exposed in a tyre cavity of the wheel and tyre assembly. The outer protective cover only partially covers said surface of the body of sound absorbing material such that the cover protects the body of sound absorbing material from a bead 7 of a tyre as a tyre is fitted to, or removed from, the wheel and the uncovered parts of the body of sound absorbing material are free to absorb sound.

Abstract: 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, and a first reinforcing rubber layer. A distance from a second line segment to a third line segment is from 4 mm to 8 mm; a side of an outer portion and a side of an inner portion of a bead base portion bend at an inflection point located in a range from 8 mm to 18 mm from the first intersection point; and an angle ? formed by an extension line drawn from the side of the outer portion inward in the tire radial direction and the side of the inner portion is from 4.5° to 14.5°.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a sponge member extending in a tire circumferential direction is attached around an entire circumference of a tire inner peripheral surface of a tread portion. The sponge member includes at least: a first sponge layer; a second sponge layer laminated inward of the first sponge layer in a tire radial direction; and a third sponge layer laminated inward of the second sponge layer in the tire radial direction. Each of the first sponge layer and the third sponge layer has a smaller expansion ratio than an expansion ratio of the second sponge layer.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of projection height from the tire side surface; and the plurality of protrusion portions including a radially outer protrusion portion with at least the intermediate portion disposed outward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction, and a radially inner protrusion portion with at least the intermediate portion disposed inward of the tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of projection height from the tire side surface, at least the intermediate portion being only disposed outward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction; and a ratio of a total width SW to an outer diameter OD satisfying the relationship SW/OD?0.3.

Abstract: A pneumatic tyre includes a tread portion having a pair of tread edges, and a pair of buttress portions each extending inwardly in a tyre radial direction from a respective one of the tread edges. At least one of the pair of buttress portions is provided with side protectors protruding outwardly in a tyre axial direction from an outer surface of the at least one of the pair of buttress portions and being arranged in a lyre circumferential direction. At least one of the side protectors is provided with one or more inclined grooves inclined with respect to the tyre circumferential direction. The inclined grooves include one or more ribbed inclined grooves which have groove bottoms provided with a set of plurality of first ribs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid cord for use as a reinforcement in a belt bandage of a pneumatic vehicle tire, consisting of at least two threads with ends which are twisted together. At least one first thread is a high-modulus thread with a specified thread fineness, and another thread is a low-modulus thread, said other low-modulus thread having a lower thread fineness than the first thread. The invention is characterized in that the proportion of the high-modulus thread in the hybrid cord is 80-95 wt. %; the difference between the thread fineness of the high-modulus thread and the thread fineness of the other low-modulus thread is >800 dtex; and the elongation at break of the high-modulus thread ranges from 1%-8%, and the elongation at break of the low-modulus thread ranges from 9%-30%.

Abstract: A heavy-duty pneumatic tire includes a section width being equal to or less than 335 mm, an aspect ratio being equal to or less than 55%, and a toroidal carcass extending between axially spaced bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions, wherein the carcass includes a carcass ply which includes a main portion and a turn-up portion, a belt layer disposed radially outward of the carcass in the tread portion, a sidewall rubber defining an outer sidewall profile of each sidewall portion, and a chafer rubber defining an outer bead profile of each bead portion, wherein in each bead portion, on a straight line that is perpendicular to the main portion of the carcass ply and passes a radially inner end of the sidewall rubber, the chafer rubber has a thickness of from 40% to 60% of a thickness of the bead portion.

Abstract: A tire having four belt plies laminated at an outside circumference of the carcass. Cords at second and third belt plies among the four belt plies, as numbered from the carcass to the outside circumference, intersect, being inclined in mutually opposite fashion with respect to a tire axis. Angles of inclination with respect to the tire circumferential direction of the second and third belt plies are such that an angle at a belt end is less than an angle at a tire equator. A first mounded region that has a peak at which the angle of inclination is greater than at a periphery and that corresponds to a shoulder rib which among the plurality of ribs is provided. The peak at the first mounded region is arranged at a shoulder rib region which appears to overlap the shoulder rib as seen in plan view.

Abstract: Vehicle systems and components are set forth, which aim to reduce rolling friction caused in part by the contact between the vehicle's tires and the ground surface over which the vehicle is traversing. These systems and/or components thereof may increase the overall fuel efficiency of a vehicle. In the examples provided, the systems and/or components change the tread contact patch of one or more tires during movement of the vehicle.

Abstract: Pneumatic tyre (1) comprising a carcass ply (11), two ring beads (12), a tread strip (10), a tread belt (15) comprising at least two tread plies (16), an innerliner (2) and an additional functional material layer (4,5) arranged between the innerliner (2) and the inner cavity (17) of the pneumatic tyre (1), wherein between the innerliner (2) and the layer of additional functional material (4,5) a net layer (3) is interposed, which facilitates the removal thereof during disposal at the end-of-life of the pneumatic tyre.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of projection height from the tire side surface, at least the intermediate portion being only disposed inward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction; and a ratio of a total width (SW) to an outer diameter (OD) satisfying the relationship SW/OD?0.3.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a bead portions and a bead core at the bead portions, the tire being mounted to a 15°-tapered specified rim. The bead portions include a portion inward in a radial direction of an extension line of an inner circumferential surface of the bead core, the extension line extending in the lateral direction, that is positioned outward in the tire lateral direction of an imaginary line passing through a first intersection point between the extension line and a tire inner surface and extends inward in the tire radial direction from the extension line at an angle perpendicular to the extension line. An angle ? formed by the imaginary line and a line segment passing through a second intersection point between a bead base and the tire inner surface and the first intersection point between the extension line and the tire inner surface is from 0° to 25°.

Abstract: Repair materials made of at least unvulcanized rubber are applied on a repair site of a damaged part of a tire, heating pads are applied on surfaces of the repair materials, wood pieces or other stuffing members differing in size are stuffed inside the tire, in a tire circumferential in tire circumferential direction where the repair materials are applied. The tire circumferential is fastened and pressed from surroundings by bands, and the repair site is heated by the heating pads to vulcanize the unvulcanized rubber of the repair materials, to thereby repair the tire. This repair method provides a low-cost tire repair method capable of maintaining the shape of the tire at the time of pressing and vulcanization, in various kinds of tires.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread reinforcing layer comprising a cord-reinforced part formed by winding a rubberized cord strip with at least one reinforcing cord covered with a topping rubber. The cord-reinforced part includes a mesh part in which first inclined segments and second inclined segments of the rubberized cord strip are inclined to opposite directions with respect to the tire circumferential direction. The first inclined segments intersect the second inclined segments, leaving space parts each having a quadrilateral shape. The mesh part has a tire-equator-side first region, a tread-edge-side second region and a third region therebetween, wherein the space parts within the tire-equator-side first region each have an area A1, the space parts within the tread-edge-side second region each have an area A2, and the space parts within the third region each have an area A3 which is smaller than the area A1 and larger than the area A2.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of a projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of the projection height from the tire side surface; and at least the intermediate portion being only disposed inward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction.

Abstract: Filling element (“mousse”) for tires of off-road motor vehicles. The filling element is provided with circular grooves. It is made of expanded polymeric material for longlife even under extreme conditions of external temperature, speed of the vehicle and hardness of the ground. It provides improved driving performances in terms of stability and adherence of the tire to the ground even on rough grounds of great hardness.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: a protrusion portion projecting outward in a tire lateral direction disposed in a buttress portion; and a linear portion with a linear shape when viewed in a tire meridian cross section, the linear portion constituting a surface of the protrusion portion at a position inward in a tire radial direction from a corner portion, the corner portion being an end portion of the protrusion portion outward in the tire lateral direction; the corner portion being located within a retreading development width position, which is a range in the tire radial direction in which a boundary for removing a tread when retreading is located; and the linear portion having an angle ranging from 45° to 90° with respect to a horizontal line parallel with a tire rotation axis at a position inward of the linear portion in the tire lateral direction.

Abstract: The various embodiments relate to pneumatic tires including a changing radius of curvature along a body ply that defines a tapering point of a bead assembly. The tires further include a reinforcement band and a body ply with a turn-up end. Various embodiments further relate to a bead assembly that tapers to a width at about 20 mm to 30 mm from the bottom of the bead assembly, such that the ratio of the tapered width to the width of the bead assembly at the widest point of the bead bundle is from about 0.3 to about 0.5. The bead assembly includes a first and a second bead filler where the volume of the first bead filler is from about 32% to about 44% of the bead filler.