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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1996
The Yokohama Rubber, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A pneumatic vehicle tire having a belt layer at the outside of a carcass layer of the tread, wherein a plurality of mutually parallel reinforcement cords are wound back and forth in a spiral at a predetermined angle to the longitudinal direction and embedded in a matrix of a lateral flattened tubular cross-section to form a continuous tape and the continuous tape is continuously wound around the outer circumference of the carcass layer a plurality of times in a spiral to form the belt layer or a pneumatic vehicle tire having a continuous tape, composed of a two-layer construction consisting of a plurality of aligned rubberized reinforcement cords wound in a spiral to form a lateral flattened tubular cross-section and an elastic cord inserted inside the flattened tube along its longitudinal direction as a core member, continuously wound over an outer circumference of a carcass layer at a tread in a spiral with a slight angle with respect to the tire circumferential direction to form a belt layer.