Bridgestone Corporation

Tatsuro Shimada

Hiroyuki Koseki

Kuninobu Kadota

Akira Yagi

Kiyoshi Sato

Toshio Hayakawa

Kazuomi Kobayashi

A heavy duty radial tire includes at least one radial carcass extending from one bead portion to the other bead portion and using inextensible cords and a belt arranged outwardly of the radial carcass for reinforcing a tread of the tire. The tire comprises, during expanding of the tire from 5% to 100% of a normal inner pressure, a first profile portion expanding radially outwardly in a tread zone, a second profile portion depressing axially inwardly of the tire in a radially outer zone of a sidewall from one end of said tread to a tire maximum width position when filled with the normal inner pressure, and a third profile portion expanding axially outwardly of the tire in a radially inner zone of the sidewall from the tire maximum width position when filled with the normal inner pressure to a parting point of the sidewall from the rim, thereby properly distributing strains occurring in the tire in filling with the normal inner pressure.

Heavy duty radial tire carcass profile

Automobile tire

A pneumatic tire for use in passenger cars is disclosed, which comprises a carcass as a reinforcement for a tire casing and a belt composed of two parallel-arranged belt layers each containing steel cords therein, the cords of which layers being crossed with each other with respect to the mid-circumferential line of the tire. In this tire, the belt is composed of a combination of a rubberized layer containing flexible and stretchable steel cords of strand construction in the same direction, each cord having a bending resistance of 5.about.1.4 gf/mm as a ratio of load to unit deflection under loading in three-point bending test and an elongation under a load of 3 kgf of 0.5.about.2% in tension test, and a layer and/or a cap composed of textile cords surrounding an outer periphery of each of at least both side ends of the rubberized layer.

Pneumatic tires with specified belt cord properties

A passenger car pneumatic tire excellent in cornering stability, which is characterized in that the following ratio relations are met when the tire is assembled onto a rim with an internal pressure being filled:

Passenger car pneumatic tire excellent in cornering stability

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Musashimurayama, Japan

Tatsuro Shimada