Abstract: A hose for fluid transportation includes an inner layer, a reinforcing layer, and an outer layer. The inner layer includes a (A) layer including a thermoplastic resin composition ax made of a matrix am containing a thermoplastic resin ar and a domain ad containing a rubber ae, a (B) layer including a thermoplastic resin b or a thermoplastic resin composition bx made of a matrix bm containing a thermoplastic resin br and a domain bd containing a rubber be, and a (C) layer including a rubber composition cx. The (A), (B) and (C) layers are arranged in this order as innermost to outer layers. A 10% modulus M10 to 100% modulus M100 ratio of the (A) and (B) layer structure satisfies 0.5<M10/M100<1.2. A 100% modulus of the (C) layer<a 100% modulus of the (A) layer<a 100% modulus of the (B) layer.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire tread pattern includes, on a first side in a width direction relative to a tire centerline, first lug grooves in a shoulder land portion extending from an outer side in the width direction toward and connecting with a shoulder side main groove; and second lug grooves in a middle land portion between the shoulder side main groove and a center side main groove, the second lug grooves extending from a portion of the shoulder side main groove between connection positions of circumferentially adjacent first lug grooves with the shoulder side main groove, toward the center side main groove, and being closed within the middle land portion. The first lug grooves are inclined, at the connection position, to one side in the circumferential direction relative to the width direction. The second lug grooves are inclined to be parallel with an inclination direction of the first lug groove.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion including a rubber composition including a diene rubber including styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and butadiene rubber (BR), and a filler. The styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) includes emulsion-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (E-SBR) by an amount of 40 mass % or greater in the diene rubber. A ratio of a blended amount of the styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) to a blended amount of the butadiene rubber (BR) is from 1.0 to 1.3, and the filler includes 70 parts by mass or greater of silica with respect to 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber.

Abstract: A tread pattern of a pneumatic tire includes circumferential main grooves, lug grooves and first and second sipes connecting the circumferential main grooves, a block land portion defined by the circumferential main grooves and the lug grooves and including the sipes. The lug grooves and the first and second sipes have a shape that projects toward one direction in the circumferential direction. A shallow depth groove raised bottom is provided in a turning portion where the lug groove includes a projecting apex. The projecting apex of a sipe turning portion including the projecting apex of the first sipe is within the range of the shallow depth groove raised bottom, and is inward in the lateral direction compared with the position of the projecting apex of a sipe turning portion including the projecting apex of the second sipe.

Abstract: A tire includes a circumferential narrow groove disposed in a tread portion center region and having a groove width of 0.5 mm or more and 3.0 mm or less, and a first land portion defined by the circumferential narrow groove and a second land portion located further on a tire equatorial plane side than the first land portion and adjacent to the first land portion. Additionally, the first and second land portions include chamfered portions, respectively in edge portions on the circumferential narrow groove side. Additionally, a circumferential length L33 of the chamfered portion of the second land portion has the relationship L33<L24 with respect to a circumferential length L24 of the chamfered portion of the first land portion.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having lug grooves in shoulder land portions that each include one end reaching at least a ground contact edge and an other end terminating in the shoulder land portion. Sipes in the shoulder land portions each include one end communicating with a shoulder main groove and an other end terminating in a ground contact region. Lug grooves in intermediate land portions each include one end communicating with the shoulder main groove and an other end terminating in the intermediate land portion. Sipes in the intermediate land portion each include one end communicating with a center main groove and an other end terminating in the intermediate land portion. Sipes in the center land portion each include one end communicating with the center main groove and an other end terminating in the center land portion without exceeding a tire center line.

Abstract: In a tire, first and second center land portions each include a circumferential narrow groove and first and second lateral grooves. The first and second lateral grooves of the first center land portion are disposed overlapped with each other in a tire circumferential direction. The first and second lateral grooves of the second center land portion are disposed overlapped with each other in the tire circumferential direction. The first and second lateral grooves of the first center land portion are disposed offset with respect to the first and second lateral grooves of the second center land portion in the tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: The two-part curable adhesive composition contains a main agent (A) containing a urethane prepolymer (a1) and a residual polyisocyanate (a2), and a curing agent (B) containing a polyol compound (b1) and a polyamine compound (b2). The urethane prepolymer (a1) is made by reacting in an equivalent ratio of an isocyanate group in a raw material polyisocyanate to a hydroxy group in a polycarbonate polyol being 2.05 or greater. The equivalent ratio of an isocyanate group in the main agent (A) to an active hydrogen group in the curing agent (B) is from 0.5 to 4.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a tire vulcanization mold and a maintenance method. A positioning member protrudes at a position corresponding to a position on a master mold surface. A positioning hole is formed by a tip end of the positioning member in a rubber mold to which the surface of the master mold is transferred. The tip end is embedded in the positioning hole so that a rear end protrudes from the surface of the rubber mold. The rear end is embedded in a plaster mold to which the surface of the rubber mold is transferred. A case is detachably fixed to the tip end protruding from the surface of the plaster mold. The case is cast into a mold to which the surface of the plaster mold is transferred and fixed. A valve body is inserted into the case from which the positioning member is removed.

Abstract: A delivery container for a drone includes: an outer container (2) which is formed of an elastic material and is watertight and has a load opening (3) that opens and closes which is provided with a water stop portion (3a) to be watertight; and a cushioning portion (5) formed of an elastic material having an air chamber (6) and which is interposed between a load (B) stored inside the outer container (2) and the outer container (2) to hold the load (B) within a predetermined range inside the outer container (2). The delivery container can prevent a load to be delivered from getting damaged or wet and can easily and more reliably protect the load is provided.

Abstract: A tread pattern of a pneumatic tire includes circumferential grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and sipes disposed at intervals in the tire circumferential direction in each of land portion regions in contact with the circumferential grooves, the sipes extending in a tire width direction. At least one of the land portion regions includes a first sipe and a second sipe disposed to be adjacent to the first sipe in the tire circumferential direction as the sipe, the sipe region being provided in at least a partial region in the tire width direction. A sipe width of the second sipe is wider than a sipe width of the first sipe. The sipe region is not provided with a lug groove having a wider groove width than the sipe width of the second sipe, the lug groove extending in the tire width direction.

Abstract: Provide is a rubber composition for a tire that improves mechanical properties beyond conventional levels. The rubber composition for a tire according to an embodiment of the present invention contains from 1 to 50 parts by mass of oxidized cellulose nanofibers blended in 100 parts by mass of diene rubber containing 5% by mass or greater of modified diene rubber having 0.1% by mol or greater of a polar group.

Abstract: A tire assembly includes a tire and a shape measurement unit utilizing magnetism. The shape measurement unit is provided with one device of a magnetic generator or a magnetic sensor configured to detect a distance of separation from the magnetic generator based on a magnetic field generated by the magnetic generator to acquire a deformation state of a sidewall, in a first region that is any one of a tread-portion-corresponding region and bead-portion-corresponding regions that are on an inner surface of the tire, the tread-portion-corresponding region corresponding to a tread portion and the bead-portion-corresponding regions corresponding to bead portions, and is provided with another of the magnetic generator or the magnetic sensor in a second region.

Abstract: In manufacturing a pneumatic tire, a replaceable member having a smooth flat surface is attached to a mold body of a tire mold configured to vulcanize an unvulcanized tire into a predetermined shape by contact with the unvulcanized tire. A mold inner surface that forms the shape of a tire side surface portion includes a curved surface of the mold body and the flat surface surrounded by the curved surface. A vulcanized tire is produced by vulcanizing the unvulcanized tire by bringing the unvulcanized tire into contact with the mold inner surface. A two-dimensional code is engraved in a planar surface region of the vulcanized tire, which corresponds to the flat surface. In the two-dimensional code, a dot pattern is formed by two types of gray scale elements that are formed identifiable from each other by surface unevenness.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire, a placement unit is moved relative to a forming drum in a drum circumferential direction to repeatedly perform a one-side step of delivering a reinforcing wire in a folded back state in a length from a central portion toward one side in the width direction of the forming drum and compression bonding the reinforcing wire to an innerliner of an outer surface of the forming drum, and after delivering the reinforcing wire in the length toward the one side in the width direction as described above, perform an other-side step of delivering the reinforcing wire in a folded back state in a length from the central portion toward an other side in the width direction of the forming drum and compression bonding the reinforcing wire to an outer surface of the innerliner.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire with a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions, a transponder is embedded in an outer side of the carcass layer in the tire width direction, a rubber member having the largest storage modulus at 20° C. of rubber members located on an outer side of the transponder in the tire width direction has a modulus M50out(0° C.) during 50% deformation at 0° C. and a modulus M50out(?20° C.) during 50% deformation at ?20° C. that satisfy a relationship 0.50?M50out(0° C.)/M50out(?20° C.)<1.00, and a rubber member having the largest storage modulus at 20° C. of rubber members located on an inner side of the transponder in the tire width direction has a modulus M50in(0° C.) during 50% deformation at 0° C. and a modulus M50in(?20° C.) during 50% deformation at ?20° C. that satisfy a relationship 0.25?M50in(0° C.)/M50in(?20° C.)<1.00.

Abstract: A rubber composition contains 10-50 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin in 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber containing 60 mass % or more of a styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of 5-30 mass % and a vinyl content of 10-35 mass %. In a mixture containing the diene rubber and the thermoplastic resin in a mass ratio of 1:1, a difference (Tga-Tgm) between a theoretical value (Tga) of a glass transition temperature of the mixture calculated based on an average glass transition temperature (Tg1) of the diene rubber and a glass transition temperature (Tg2) of the thermoplastic resin, and a measurement value (Tgm) of a glass transition temperature of the mixture, is 5-50° C., and a difference (Tg2-Tg1) is 110-150° C. An amount of the thermoplastic resin is 30 mass % or more in 100 mass % total of a plasticizer component contained in the rubber composition.

Abstract: In a tread portion of a pneumatic tire, an average lateral groove width Lc of a center region is obtained by dividing the groove area of lateral grooves in the center region by a circumferential length of the center region, and an average lateral groove width Lsh of a shoulder region is obtained by dividing the groove area of lateral grooves in the shoulder region by a circumferential length of the shoulder region. A relationship between a tire average thickness Gc of the center region and a tire average thickness Gsh in the shoulder region satisfies 1.05?(Gc/Gsh)?1.35, a relationship between the average lateral groove width Lc of the center region and the tire average thickness Gc in the center region satisfies 0.07?(Lc/Gc)?0.12, and a relationship between the average lateral groove width Lsh of the shoulder region and the tire average thickness Gsh in the shoulder region satisfies 0.17?(Lsh/Gsh)?0.26.