The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Tadashi Higuchi

Daisuke Kanenari

Yoshiaki Hashimura

Zenichiro Shida

A pneumatic tire using an inner liner layer comprising a film of a thermoplastic resin, or a blend of a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, having an air permeation coefficient of not more than 25&#xd7;10cc&#xb7;cm/cm&#xb7;sec&#xb7;cmHg and a Young's modulus of 1 to 1000 MPa, wherein a buffer rubber layer containing short fibers is arranged between the inner liner layer and a carcass layer in bead directions from two ends of a widest width belt layer in ranges of at least 20 mm, whereby a problem of trouble during production is solved and the durability of the inner liner layer is improved, without causing a problem of an increase in tire weight.

Pneumatic tire with buffer rubber layer

A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total of formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.

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Hiratsuka, Japan

Tadashi Higuchi