Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a pair of bead portions, a pair of side wall portions which extend from the bead portions to an outer side in a tire diametrical direction, a tread portion which is connected to an outer side end of each of the pair of side wall portions in the tire diametrical direction, a plurality of projections which are provided in a buttress region of the side wall portions along a tire circumferential direction; and a plurality of spews which protrude out of surfaces of the projections. In each of a plurality of sides forming a periphery of the surfaces of the projections, in the case that rectangular areas having a distance from the side being in a range of 2.5 mm or less are defined on the surfaces of the projections, at least one spew is provided in each of the rectangular areas.

Abstract: Disclosed is a surface-treated carbon black in which a surface of a carbon black is treated with a compound represented by general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group, alkenyl group or alkynyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and R1 and R2 may be the same as or different from each other; and M+ represents a sodium ion, potassium ion or lithium ion. The use of this surface-treated carbon black allows to yield a vulcanized rubber low in exothermicity.

Abstract: A rubber composition for tires is disclosed, which is capable of improving fuel efficiency, wet grip performance, and low-temperature characteristics, and also a pneumatic tire using the same. A rubber composition for tires, including, per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component, 1 to 30 parts by mass of a phosphate having a coagulation point of ?50° C. or less and 1 to 20 parts by mass of a thermoplastic elastomer having a tan ? peak value of 1.5 to 2.0 and a peak-value onset temperature within a range of ?20° C. to 20° C. as measured by the dynamic viscoelasticity test specified in JIS K6394 under conditions of 10 Hz frequency, 10% static strain, and 0.15% dynamic strain.

Abstract: A rubber composition for tires is disclosed, which is capable of improving fuel efficiency, wet grip performance, and low-temperature characteristics, and also a pneumatic tire using the same. A rubber composition for tires, including al rubber component, an inorganic filler, a thermoplastic elastomer containing a functional group that reacts or interacts with a surface functional group of the inorganic filler and having a specific gravity of 1.00 or less, and a phosphate having a coagulation point of ?55° C.

Abstract: A method for arranging stud pins in a pneumatic tire is a method for arranging stud pins in a tread portion at intervals in a tire width direction so as to form a plurality of rows. This method includes specifying an inner region, an intermediate region, and an outer region by virtually partitioning the tread portion into equal three parts from a center line extending in a tire circumferential direction to a ground contact end in the tire width direction outward. The method also includes arranging the stud pins such that among numbers of stud pins per row in the inner region, the intermediate region, and the outer region, the number in the outer region is the largest, the number in the intermediate region is the second largest, the number in intermediate region is the smallest.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a center rib extending in a tire circumferential direction at a center in a tire width direction; a plurality of inclined blocks branching and extending from the center rib to both sides in the tire width direction and defined by a plurality of inclined grooves extending obliquely in the tire circumferential direction toward an outside in the tire width direction; and a plurality of stud pins arranged in at least one of inclined blocks, in which the plurality of inclined grooves are arranged at predetermined formation intervals in the tire circumferential direction so as not to intersect with each other, and a length of each inclined groove in the tire circumferential direction is within twice the formation intervals.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of blocks formed by being divided by a longitudinal groove in a tire width direction and divided by a lateral groove in a tire circumferential direction. The blocks include a first block on the inner side in the tire width direction, a second block on the outer side in the tire width direction, a third block adjacent to the first block in the tire circumferential direction, and a fourth block adjacent to the second block in the tire circumferential direction. The pneumatic tire includes a bridge formed in the longitudinal groove and the lateral groove and coupling the first block, the second block, and the third block, or the third block, the fourth block, and the second block.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for heavy loads comprising a bead core, a bead filler arranged on the outside in a tire radial direction of the lead core, a steel cord-containing carcass ply wound up on the outside from the inside in a fire axis direction around the bead core, a steel cord-containing chafer provided so as to cover the carcass ply from the inside in the tire radial direction, and a reinforcing sheet comprising a rubber and a cotton kneaded therein and interposed between the bead core and the carcass ply. The tire can improve durability of a bead part.

Abstract: A tread portion has a pin hole with a stud pin being mounted. In the periphery of the pin hole a recess is formed that gradually deepens as the recess extends toward radially outside and that has a depth of 10% or less of the depth of the pin hole.

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: A pneumatic tire includes a shoulder block on an outer side in the tire width direction. The pneumatic tire includes an edge portion protruding from an end portion of the shoulder block located on the outer side in the tire width direction toward a tire step-in side so as to be inclined toward the center side in the tire width direction.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire exerts an excellent blurring effect on irregularities resulting from a boundary between members in a sidewall portion. A pneumatic tire includes a serration portion formed by providing multiple basic ridges side by side at intervals in a tire circumferential direction on a surface of a sidewall portion, and multiple sub-ridges extending in a direction crossing the basic ridges and shorter than the basic ridges, which are provided without coupling the basic ridges neighboring each other.

Abstract: A tire cure mold has a tread molding face that comes in contact with a tread face of a tire set in a cavity, a protruding portion for foaming a groove portion and protruding inward in a tire diametrical direction from the tread molding face, a depression for foaming a groove bottom projection and formed by recessing a top face of the protruding portion, a first vent hole open in the tread molding face, a second vent hole open in a bottom face of the depression, and a spring vent mounted in the second vent hole.

Abstract: One purpose of the present invention is to provide a liquid-crystal compound which exhibits liquid crystallinity at low temperatures. Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermally responsive material which exhibits liquid crystallinity and rubber elasticity at low temperatures (around room temperature) ever, though a large amount of a liquid-crystal compound is contained therein, and a method for producing this thermally responsive material. A liquid-crystal compound according to the present invention is obtained by adding an alkylene oxide and/or styrene oxide to a mesogenic group-containing compound that has an active hydrogen group.

Abstract: A tire vulcanization mold including a sector mold divided into a plurality of pieces along a circumferential direction of a green tire, the sector mold configured to vulcanization mold a tread portion of the green tire into a predetermined shape, and an upper mold and a lower mold disposed on both sides of the green tire so as to sandwich the green tire therebetween in an axial direction of the green tire, the upper mold and the lower mold configured to vulcanization mold a side portion of the green tire into a predetermined shape. The sector mold has a relief groove in a vicinity of a fitting portion between the sector mold, and the upper mold and the lower mold.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wet rubber masterbatch that will serve as raw material for vulcanized rubber having excellent tensile strength and tear strength and that will permit wet rubber masterbatch to be molded in a short time. A method comprising an operation in which a collection of granules comprising a plurality of granular coagula are obtained from a liquid mixture comprising filler and rubber latex solution, and an operation in which the collection of granules is compressed under conditions satisfying Formula I; 3?P×Da?500 (P indicates pressure (kgf/cm2) applied to the collection of granules. Da indicates granule diameter (mm) of the granular coagula), making it possible to cause a wet rubber masterbatch capable of serving as raw material for vulcanized rubber having excellent tensile strength and tear strength to be molded in a short time.

Abstract: A method having: acquiring pressure distribution data at which there are a plurality of measurement points for which forces along three axes have been measured; calculating friction coefficients based on the forces along the three axes at the respective measurement points; generating associated data, linking a contact patch pressure and a maximum friction coefficient that is capable of being exhibited at the contact patch pressure, for a plurality of situations based on a single situation represented by a contact patch pressure and a friction coefficient exhibited at the contact patch pressure at a single measurement point; identifying maximum friction coefficients corresponding to contact patch pressures at respective measurement points based on the associated data; and calculating a margin of the friction coefficient, which is a difference between the maximum friction coefficient and the friction coefficient.