Patent ID: 6962184
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tire for a vehicle wheel, comprising: two sidewalls spaced apart axially from each other and joined at their radially outer portions by a crown zone provided on its radially outer portion with a circumferential tread; a bead arranged radially to the inside of each of the sidewalls, at least one bead comprising a seat and an outer flange which are intended to come into contact with a rim, said seat having a generatrix, the axially inner end of which lies on a circle of diameter greater than the diameter of the circle on which the axially outer end is located; and a carcass-type reinforcement structure extending substantially radially from each of the beads, along the sidewalls, towards said crown zone, the carcass type reinforcement structure cooperating, in said at least one bead, only with a substantially radial arrangement of circumferential cords arranged in at least one stack, said substantially radial arrangement of circumferential cords being in an axially inner position with respect to the center of pressure in said at least one bead, a portion of the carcass-type reinforcement structure being arranged in the immediate vicinity of at least one portion of a stack, the space between said portions of the carcass-type reinforcement structure and the stack being substantially occupied by a rubber mix of high elasticity modulus.