Patent ID: 7036541

Claim:
A pneumatic tire comprising a carcass including a carcass ply extending from a tread portion to a bead core of a bead portion through a sidewall portion, and a belt layer having a belt ply arranged inside the tread portion and outside the carcass, wherein a standard grounding surface shape when a standard load is applied to the pneumatic tire in a state in which the tire is assembled into a standard rim and a standard internal pressure is charged into the tire includes an inner region including a shortest grounding length Lm between a central region including a grounding length Lc at a tire equator in which a grounding length L in a circumferential direction of the tire becomes maximum and a tread edge region including a ground length Le at a grounding edge, said grounding length Lm the shorter than the grounding length Lc and the grounding length Le, the shortest grounding length Lm is located in a range apart from the tire equator by a distance of 0.5 to 0.9 times of a tread half width TW, a rubber thickness t 1 between a carcass cord of the carcass ply and a belt cord of the radially inward belt ply which is the closest to the carcass cord is gradually increased outward in an axial direction of the tire from the tire equator, furthermore, the rubber thickness t 1 q in a half width position of 0.55 times of the tread half width TW from the tire equator is set to 0.5 to 3.0mm, additionally, a ratio t 2 q /t 2 c between an entire thickness t 2 q of the tread portion if the half width position and an entire thickness t 2 c of the tread portion in the tire equator is set to 1.01±0.05.