The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Toru Horikawa

Tomohiko Kogure

Yusaku Miyazaki

Masakazu Okihara

Tuneo Morikawa

Tsuneo Morikawa

A pneumatic tire for automobiles which has a carcass reinforced with polymeric monofilaments of the same or different diameter which are interconnected by radially inwardly curved peripheral extensions thereof to form a cord having a substantially flat transverse cross-sectional configuration as a whole.

Pneumatic tire having a carcass reinforced with a flat cord made of a

A pneumatic tire characterized in that a carcass layer is constructed by arranging non-twisted polyamide monofilament cords each having a flat cross-section such that the major axis of said flat cross-section is disposed along the surface direction of said carcass layer, that said carcass layer is fold up from the inside to the outside of said tire around a bead portion, and that the folded-up end portions are constructed such that the thickness thereof becomes smaller toward the distal end thereof.

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Hiratsuka, Japan

Toru Horikawa