Abstract: A tire can include a pair of beads, a carcass, a pair of protective rubber layers, and a pair of reinforcing rubber layers. A carcass ply of the carcass can include a ply body and a pair of turned-up portions. Each reinforcing rubber layer can be between the turned-up portion and the protective rubber layer. An outer end of an apex of each bead can be between an outer end and an inner end of the reinforcing rubber layer in a radial direction. A thickness of the protective rubber layer in a zone from a rim contact end to the outer end of the reinforcing rubber layer can be small at a center portion in the radial direction of the reinforcing rubber layer and can be large at another portion.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion having a tread surface and buttress surfaces. The buttress surfaces have inclinations such that the tread edges shift axially outwards as the tread portion is worn off. The tread rubber includes a radially outermost first rubber layer and a radially inner second rubber layer. The loss tangent ?2 of the second rubber layer is larger than the loss tangent ?1 of the first rubber layer. One of or each of the buttress surfaces is provided with an outer lateral groove. The outer lateral groove is located axially outside the tread edge when the tire is new, and when the tread portion is worn off and the tread edge shifts axially outward, the outer lateral groove is at least partially located axially inward of the tread edge.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion provided with circumferential grooves and including a circumferential first land portion and a circumferential second land portion on the tire equator side of the first land portion. Each of the first land portion and the second land portion comprises a cap tread rubber layer and an intermediate tread rubber layer. The loss tangent ?2 of the intermediate tread rubber layer is larger than the loss tangent ?1 of the cap tread rubber layer. The shortest distance L2 from the ground contacting surface of the second land portion to the radially outer surface of the intermediate tread rubber layer of the second land portion is smaller than the shortest distance L1 from the ground contacting surface of the first land portion to the radially outer surface of the intermediate tread rubber layer of the first land portion.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of bead portions, a pair of bead cores each disposed in a respective one of the pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the pair of bead cores, the carcass including a carcass ply that includes a main portion extending between the pair of bead cores and a pair of turn-up portions each turned up around a respective one of the pair of bead cores from axially inside to outside of the tire and extending outwardly in a tire radial direction, and a reinforcing rubber layer disposed in each bead portion and being adjacent to an axially outside of the turn-up portion, wherein the reinforcing rubber layer has a laminated body in which a plurality of sheet-shaped rubber members having different radial lengths are laminated in the tire axial direction.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including a first cap rubber layer forming a ground contact surface and having a loss tangent tan ?1, and a second cap rubber layer disposed inwardly in a tire radial direction of the first cap rubber layer and having a loss tangent tan ?2, the loss tangent tan ?2 being greater than the loss tangent tan ?1. The tread portion is provided with a plurality of sipes opening to the ground contact surface, The plurality of sipes, at least partially, extends inwardly in a tire radial direction from the ground contact surface to a. location beyond a boundary between the first cap rubber layer and the second cap rubber layer, and a maximum length L2 of the plurality of sipes in the second cap rubber layer is smaller than a length L1 of the plurality of sipes at the ground contact surface.

Abstract: A tire has a visible outer surface comprising a decorative region provided with a plurality of micro-protrusions each comprising a recess and a wall portion. The wall portion surrounds the recess to form a protrusion's apex having an upper surface, and the upper surface of the wall portion comprises at least two peak points in the protruding-height direction of the micro-protrusion, at which the protruding height of the wall portion becomes local maximum.

Abstract: A tire has an outer surface comprising a decorative portion which is visible and provided with micro-protuberances at a density of from 2 to 10 micro-protuberances per 1 sq.mm, and the micro-protuberances include a recessed micro-protuberance provided at its top surface with a recess.

Abstract: A tyre includes a tread portion including a land portion having a ground contact surface and at least one sidewall. The land portion is provided with a radial channel extending from a radially outer end opened at the ground contact surface to a radially inner end, an internal lateral channel extending under the ground contact surface within the land portion and having one end opened at the at least one sidewall and communicating with the radially inner end of the radial channel, and a sipe opened at the ground contact surface and communicating with the radial channel and the internal lateral channel. The radially outer end of the radial channel has an axial opening width in a range of from 5% to 20% of an axial width of the land portion.

Abstract: The disclosure improves the wear resistance without impairing the on-ice performance. A tire is provided with a block divided by a lateral groove on a ground-contacting part. The block is provided with a plurality of sipes. The plurality of sipes are arranged in a thickness direction of the sipes. Each sipe has a pair of sipe walls that are separated in the thickness direction. Each sipe includes a protrusion that protrudes in a taper shape from one toward the other of the pair of sipe walls.

Abstract: A tire has a visible outer surface comprising a decorative region provided with a plurality of micro-protrusions each comprising a recess and a wall portion. The wall portion surrounds the recess to form a protrusion's apex having an upper surface, and the upper surface of the wall portion comprises a peak point and a bottom point in a protruding-height direction of the micro-protrusion, wherein a protruding amount at the peak point is larger than a protruding amount at the bottom point.

Abstract: A groove bottom is formed symmetrically about a center line of a circumferential groove in a tread plan view and includes groove bottom protruding portions protruding radially outwardly from a groove bottom reference surface parallel to a tread surface at a deepest position of a groove depth. Groove bottom protruding portions have a first groove bottom surface extending radially and a second groove bottom surface having an angle larger than the first groove bottom surface. Groove walls include groove wall protruding portions protruding toward an inner side of the circumferential groove from a groove wall reference surface as a circumferential surface at a widest position of a groove width. The groove wall protruding portions each has a first groove wall width surface and a second groove wall surface having an angle larger than the first groove wall width surface.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 has a carcass 6 extending between a first bead portion 4A and a second bead portion 4B through a tread portion 2 and a pair of sidewall portions 3. The carcass 6 is composed of at least two carcass plies 7 including a first carcass ply 7A and a second carcass ply 7B which have the same ply length. Each of the first carcass ply 7A and the second carcass ply 7B is arranged asymmetrically with respect to the tire equator C.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion provided with at least one longitudinal groove extending in a tire circumferential direction. The longitudinal groove has a groove bottom surface and a pair of groove wall surfaces extending outwardly in a tire radial direction from the groove bottom surface. The groove bottom surface is provided with a groove bottom protruding portion protruding outwardly in the tire radial direction. At least one of the pair of the groove wall surfaces is provided with a groove wall protruding portion protruding toward a side of a groove center of the longitudinal groove.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each having a bead core embedded therein, and a carcass extending between the bead portions in a toroidal manner. A buttress portion of at least one of the pair of the sidewall portions is provided with at least one raised portion protruding outward in a tire axial direction. The carcass includes a main body portion and a pair of turned up portions. In the sidewall portion which is provided with the at least one raised portion, the turned up portion is arranged so as to overlap with the raised portion in the tire radial direction. A length in the tire radial direction of an overlapping portion of the turned up portion and the raised portion is 5% or more and 40% or less of a tire section height.

Abstract: A tire has a visible outer surface comprising a decorative region provided with a plurality of micro-protrusions each comprising a recess and a wall portion. The wall portion surrounds the recess to form a protrusion's apex having an upper surface, and the upper surface of the wall portion comprises a peak point and a bottom point in a protruding-height direction of the micro-protrusion, wherein a protruding amount at the peak point is larger than a protruding amount at the bottom point.

Abstract: A tire has a visible outer surface comprising a decorative region provided with a plurality of micro-protrusions each comprising a recess and a wall portion. The wall portion surrounds the recess to form a protrusion's apex having an upper surface, and the upper surface of the wall portion comprises at least two peak points in the protruding-height direction of the micro-protrusion, at which the protruding height of the wall portion becomes local maximum.

Abstract: A tire has an outer surface comprising a decorative portion which is visible and provided with micro-protuberances at a density of from 2 to 10 micro-protuberances per 1 sq.mm, and the micro-protuberances include a recessed micro-protuberance provided at its top surface with a recess.

Abstract: A tyre includes a tread portion including a land portion having a ground contact surface and at least one sidewall. The land portion is provided with a radial channel extending from a radially outer end opened at the ground contact surface to a radially inner end, an internal lateral channel extending under the ground contact surface within the land portion and having one end opened at the at least one sidewall and communicating with the radially inner end of the radial channel, and a sipe opened at the ground contact surface and communicating with the radial channel and the internal lateral channel. The radially outer end of the radial channel has an axial opening width in a range of from 5% to 20% of an axial width of the land portion.

Abstract: A groove bottom is formed symmetrically about a center line of a circumferential groove in a tread plan view and includes groove bottom protruding portions protruding radially outwardly from a groove bottom reference surface parallel to a tread surface at a deepest position of a groove depth. Groove bottom protruding portions have a first groove bottom surface extending radially and a second groove bottom surface having an angle larger than the first groove bottom surface. Groove walls include groove wall protruding portions protruding toward an inner side of the circumferential groove from a groove wall reference surface as a circumferential surface at a widest position of a groove width. The groove wall protruding portions each has a first groove wall width surface and a second groove wall surface having an angle larger than the first groove wall width surface.