Patent ID: 6935393

Claim:
A tire having an outer tread and an inner casing with a belt structure, the belt structure includes an overlay reinforced by parallel cords oriented circumferentially having a width W between lateral outermost edges, the overlay having a pattern of cuts within discrete segments, each segment being wrapped around the circumference of the tire and a width w between lateral edges of the respective segment and joined to adjacent segments at the lateral edges, each segment being characterized by: a repeated pattern of cuts arranged in six rows each cut being spaced at least 100 mm from a cut in an adjacent row and being laterally offset from an adjacent segment by at least 3 mm, this distance being smaller than the cut width to ensure that each overlay cord is cut, the overlay cord lengths within the respective rows being of any length L in the range 200 to 500 mm, the cut pitch within the respective rows being of any percentage P of the tire circumference in the range 8 to 30%, the circumferential offset between two adjacent segments being of any percentage O of the tire circumference in the range of 0.5 to 2%.