Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Akihiro Nakatani

Kenji Saito

Akira Kajikawa

Atsushi Yamahira

Hiroyuki Noma

Kazuhiko Kawamura

Hideaki Nagayasu

A belted radial ply tire which comprises a bead core disposed in each bead portion, a carcass extending between the bead portions and turned up around the bead cores, and a belt comprising at least two cross plies disposed radially outside the carcass and inside the tread, and in a state that the tire is mounted on its regular rim and inflated to its regular inner pressure but loaded with no tire load, the effective belt width BW of the effective belt part BE of the belt, the belt edge camber height CH of the belt, and the tire section width TW satisfy 2.50(BW/TW)-1.25&lt;CH&lt;13.3(BW/TW)-4.65.

Radial tire with even wear at tread shoulders

Automobile tire

A tire and wheel rim assembly in which the tire has a pair of axially spaced bead portions, and the wheel rim has a pair of axially spaced bead seats upon which the bead portions of the tire are seated, at least one of the bead seats is provided at the axially inner edge thereof with a circumferential groove, at least one of the bead portions is provided with a toe extending radially inwardly into the circumferential groove, wherein the toed bead portion comprises a soft rubber layer disposed along the bottom face of the bead portion to form said bead toe and a hard rubber layer disposed radially outside the soft rubber layer, the soft rubber layer is covered by a fabric chafer disposed along the contour of the bead portion, the hard rubber layer is made of relatively hard rubber having a JIS A hardness HS1 of not less than 60 and not more than 95, the soft rubber layer is made of soft rubber having a JIS A hardness HS2 of not less than 48 and not more than 90, and the ratio HS2/HS1 of the hardness HS2 of the soft rubber to the hardness HS1 of the hard rubber layer is not less than 0.7 and not more than 0.95.

Tire and wheel rim assembly

Vehicle tire

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Hyogo, Japan

Akihiro Nakatani