Patent ID: 6860307

Claim:
A pair of mounted pneumatic tires on a vehicle, each tire comprising a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions extending inward from both side parts of the tread portion in a radial direction, a bead portion continuously connected to an inner end of each sidewall portion in the radial direction, a carcass reinforcing these portions, and a reinforcing member comprised of at least one rubberized cord reinforcing layer arranged in a tire zone including at least each of the sidewall portions and extending from each bead portion to a radial height substantially greater than the radial height of the flange of the rim on which the tire is mounted; wherein a shearing rigidity of the reinforcing member in the circumferential direction, which serves to apply a braking force to the tire, arranged in the same tire at a posture of the mounted tire onto the vehicle is made larger at a first tire zone located at an outside of the vehicle than at a second tire zone located at an inside of the vehicle among the above tire zones; and wherein the pair of mounted tires left- and right-wheeled tires symmetrically located at both sides of the vehicle with respect to a center line of the vehicle in a widthwise direction and the pair of mounted tires are constructed so that the reinforcing members arranged in the first and second tire zones are symmetrical with RESPECT to the center line in both tires.