Patent ID: 7172000

Claim:
A tire comprising a carcass reinforcement of at least one ply of reinforcement elements which is anchored within each bead to at least one annular bead element, and a crown reinforcement composed of at least two plies of metallic reinforcement elements, which are parallel to each other within each ply and are crossed from one ply to the next, forming angles of between 10 and 35Â° with the circumferential direction, wherein it additionally comprises at least in each shoulder of the tire a ply of reinforcement elements, which are parallel to each other in the additional shoulder ply and form an angle with the circumferential direction in the range of 60 to 90Â°, wherein the axially inner edge of said additional shoulder ply is radially adjacent to at least one edge of one of the plies of the crown reinforcement, and wherein the axially outer edge of said additional shoulder ply is radially internal to the edge of the ply to which the additional shoulder ply is adjacent, wherein the reinforcement elements of the additional shoulder ply have a compacted diameter less than 0.5 times the compacted diameter D of the metallic elements of the working crown plies of said tire, and the reinforcement elements of the additional shoulder ply are metallic.