Toyota Highlander 2020 Owner's Manual page 511

Tire related term
Vehicle normal load on the tire
Weather side
Bead
Bead separation
Bias ply tire
Carcass
Chunking
Cord
Cord separation
Cracking
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8-1. Specifications
Meaning
The load on an individual tire that is deter-
mined by distributing to each axle its share
of curb weight, accessory weight, and nor-
mal occupant weight (distributed in accor-
*
dance with Table 1 below), and dividing by
two
The surface area of the rim not covered by
the inflated tire
The part of the tire that is made of steel
wires, wrapped or reinforced by ply cords
and that is shaped to fit the rim
A breakdown of the bond between compo-
nents in the bead
A pneumatic tire in which the ply cords that
extend to the beads are laid at alternate
angles substantially less than 90 degrees
to the centerline of the tread
The tire structure, except tread and side-
wall rubber which, when inflated, bears the
load
The breaking away of pieces of the tread
or sidewall
The strands forming the plies in the tire
The parting of cords from adjacent rubber
compounds
Any parting within the tread, sidewall, or
innerliner of the tire extending to cord
material
A pneumatic tire with an inverted flange
tire and rim system in which the rim is
designed with rim flanges pointed radially
inward and the tire is designed to fit on the
underside of the rim in a manner that
encloses the rim flanges inside the air cav-
ity of the tire
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