The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Marco Joseph Eicher

Maurice Graas

Sebastien Willy Fontaine

Kenneth Jenner Powell

Xavier Sebastien Benoit Fraipont

Jerome Marcel Germain Delu

Gia Van Nguyen

Michel Marguerite Walther Ghislain Constant

Sebastien Morin

Francois Marie Baumard

Vincent Dominique Claude Rion

Marc Hubert

Andre Hardy

Josepha Beaubras

Alain Alphonse Zelie Samuel Klepper

Edouard Pierre Michel

Thierry Vincent Joseph Martin Botman

A pneumatic radial tire has a carcass and a tread. The carcass has at least one carcass reinforcing ply and opposing bead portions. Each bead portion has a bead core and a bead apex radially. The apexes in each bead portion having the same radial height (HA), as measured from a bead base line (B). The tire has a bead reinforcing ply comprising aramid fiber reinforcing cords located in only one bead portion of the tire, with the bead reinforcing ply being adjacent to the carcass reinforcing ply.

Asymmetrical pneumatic tire

Tire tread

A radial ply, passenger vehicle tire has a tread with a substantially flat tread profile, a belt structure, and a carcass comprising two sidewalls, two beads and one or more plies. The one or more plies have a loaded shoulder ply radius that is smaller than the tire's unloaded shoulder ply radius. This design eliminates tread-lift and eliminates the need for decoupling grooves in the shoulder regions of the tread.

Radial tire with improved ply line

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Schrondweiler, Luxembourg

Marco Joseph Eicher