Patent ID: 7416007

Claim:
A tyre for a vehicle wheel, comprising: a carcass structure; a belt structure applied to the carcass structure at a circumferentially outer position of the carcass structure; a tread band applied to the belt structure at a circumferentially outer position of the belt structure; and at least one pair of sidewalls applied to the carcass structure at laterally opposite positions; wherein the carcass structure comprises: at least one first carcass ply; and at least two annular reinforcing structures; wherein the at least one first carcass ply comprises elongated sections circumferentially distributed around a geometric rotation axis of the tyre, wherein each elongated section extends in a U-shaped configuration around a cross-section outline of the carcass structure to define two side portions and one crown portion, wherein the side portions are mutually spaced apart in an axial direction of the carcass structure, wherein the crown portion extends at a radially outer position between the side portions, wherein the at least two annular reinforcing structures are configured to anchor the tyre to a rim and are disposed close to respective inner circumferential edges of the at least one first carcass ply, wherein each elongated section substantially lies in a plane parallelly offset relative to a meridian plane of the carcass structure, and wherein the crown portion of each elongated section is oriented, relative to a radial reference plane passing through a transition region between the crown portion and at least one corresponding side portion, at an angle having a different value from an inclination of the at least one corresponding side portion.