Patent ID: 7426950

Claim:
A pneumatic tire having a tire framework, wherein the tire framework includes a plurality of ribbon pieces arranged along the circumferential direction of the tire, each ribbon piece being joined to the adjacent ribbon pieces at the sides in the lateral direction, wherein each ribbon piece has a plurality of cords and rubber coating all of the corresponding cords, wherein the cords extend in the longitudinal direction of the ribbon piece and are arranged in parallel, wherein all the cords of each ribbon piece form one cord group forming a specific cord arrangement pattern that is identical to the cord arrangement pattern of the cord groups of the other ribbon pieces, wherein the cord groups are consecutively and uniformly arranged along the circumferential direction of the tire so that the specific cord arrangement pattern repeatedly appears over the entire circumference of the tire, and wherein the specific cord arrangement pattern is formed by varying the cord interval in each cord group such that the cord interval at a central region is smaller than that at side regions.