Patent ID: 6595257
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: B60C

Abstract:
An aircraft tire, to be inflated to a high pressure, comprising a tread connected to two beads by way of two sidewalls, each bead having at least one annular reinforcing element, a crown reinforcement, and a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a number of axially inner plies greater than or equal to two, said radial carcass reinforcement plies having textile reinforcing elements, at least half the total number of axially inner plies being turned up in each bead about at least one annular reinforcing element, at least one and at most three of the remaining axially inner plies being not turned up in any of the beads and having ends situated radially below a straight line XXâ€² parallel to the axis of rotation of the tire and passing through the radially innermost point of the cross-section of the annular reinforcing element and axially inside a straight line YYâ€², perpendicular to the axis of rotation and passing through the center of gravity O of the cross-section of the annular reinforcing element.