Patent ID: 7490648

Claim:
A pneumatic super single radial truck tire ( 10 ) having at least one pair of parallel annular beads ( 17 ), at least one carcass ply ( 16 ) wrapped around said beads, a crown reinforcing structure comprising radially spaced belt plies in a crown area of said tire, tread ( 28 ) disposed over said crown reinforcing structure, and sidewalls ( 26 ) disposed between said tread and said beads, characterized in that the belt plies comprise a least three ply layers ( 22 , 23 , 25 ) and a pair of helically wound layers ( 24 ) located in embedded fashion between two of the ply layers ( 22 , 23 , 25 ) wherein the width (EB 1 ) of the inwardmost belt ( 25 ) is about 94% of a footprint width of the tire tread, the width (EB 2 ) of the next inwardmost helically wound layers ( 24 ) are about 99% of the footprint width of the tire tread, the width (EB 3 ) of the next inwardmost belt ( 23 ) is about 94% of the footprint width of the tire tread; and the width (EB 4 ) of outermost belt ( 22 ) is about 84% of the footprint width of the tire tread.