The invention relates to a tyre (10) comprising a hooping ply (19) comprising at least one textile wire-like hoop reinforcer element making an angle strictly less than 10° with the circumferential direction (Z) of the tyre (10). The bonded textile wire-like reinforcer element has, before the step of production of the hooping ply (19), a tangent modulus less than or equal to 5 cN/tex/% for any elongation less than or equal to 3%. The textile wire-like hoop reinforcer element has, once extracted from the tyre (10), a tangent modulus greater than or equal to 5 cN/tex/% for any elongation greater than or equal to 4%.

The invention relates to a tyre comprising a working reinforcement comprising a single working ply, a carcass reinforcement and a hoop reinforcement. The hooping reinforcing textile filamentary element or elements (480), the working reinforcing filamentary elements (460) and the carcass reinforcing filamentary elements (440) are arranged so as to form a triangular mesh in projection on the circumferential equatorial plane (E). The or each hooping reinforcing textile filamentary element (480) is formed by a cord (30) with a triple twist (T1, T2, T3), comprising an assembly (25) consisting of N>1 strands (20a, 20b, 20c) twisted together with a twist T3 in a direction D2, each strand consisting of M>1 pre-strands, which are themselves twisted together with a twist T2 (T2a, T2b, T2c) in a direction D1 opposite to D2, each pre-strand itself consisting in a yarn that has been previously twisted about itself with a twist T1 in the direction D1, wherein at least half of the N times M yarns consist of elementary monofilaments of aromatic polyamide or aromatic copolyamide.

The present invention relates to a asymmetric cap ply reinforcement cord comprising yarns having yarns with two different linear density values in range of 1300-1500 dtex and 850-100 dtex in the cap ply reinforcement layer that is located between the tread and the belt package in a pneumatic radial vehicle tire comprising a tread and a belt package, and that is formed by winding spirally as strip comprising at least two cords such that it will make 0 to 5° angle with the equatorial plane on the said belt package.

A hooping reinforcement of a tire for a heavy duty civil engineering type vehicle is disclosed. The crown reinforcement (3) of the tire (1), radially on the inside of a tread (2), comprises a protective reinforcement (6), a working reinforcement (5) and a hooping reinforcement (7). Said hooping reinforcement (7) has an axial width at most equal to the smallest axial width (L61, L62) of the two working layers (61, 62), and comprises at least two hooping layers (71, 72) that are formed from strips each made up of elastic metal reinforcers. Each hooping layer (71, 72) is made up of an axial juxtaposition of contiguous turns of the strip (8), which are circumferentially wound around the working layer (51). Each strip (8) is at least 35 mm and at most 250 mm thick, and its distributed breaking tension is at least equal to 100 daN/mm.

The invention relates to a rubberized reinforcing ply (1) for articles consisting of an elastomeric material, preferably for vehicle tires, wherein the reinforcing ply (1) has a multiplicity of textile strengthening members (2) which are arranged parallel to and spaced apart from one another, wherein each textile strengthening member (2) is composed of at least one twisted multifilament yarn, and wherein the textile strengthening member (2) is not composed of the material rayon. The reinforcing ply (1) satisfies the following condition: (D.sup.2/E.sub.0) in mm corresponds to a value in a range from 0.22 mm to 0.38 mm, and the reinforcing ply (1) has a strength of >10 kN/dm, where D is the diameter of the textile strengthening member (2) in mm and lies in a range from 0.38 mm to 0.52 mm, and where E.sub.0=100/epdm.

The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire for passenger cars comprising a carcass (2), a tread (6) and a belt (7) which has belt plies (7a, 7b) and which is covered radially outwardly by a belt bandage (8) having strengthening elements oriented approximately in the circumferential direction, wherein the belt bandage (8) has at least one belt bandage ply (8a) whichas viewed in the tire cross sectionconsists of three sections, namely a central section (10) and two lateral sections (11, 12), wherein one lateral section (11) is arranged to the left of the central section (10) and one lateral section (12) is arranged to the right of the central section (10) and wherein the strengthening elements of the central section (10) have the construction x1 and wherein the strengthening elements of the two lateral sections (11, 12) have identical cords consisting of at least two twisted-together yarns.

The invention is distinguished by the fact that the two lateral sections (11, 12) are arranged next to the central section (10), that is to say without overlapping with the central section (10), that the density of the strengthening elements in the central section (10) is less than the density of the strengthening elements in the lateral sections (11, 12), and that the end of the lateral sections (13) that points toward the central section (10) in each case has a distance (14) of 5 mm-30 mm, preferably a distance (14) of 5 mm-15 mm, from the outer end of the widest belt ply (15), where the distance (14) is measured in the axial direction (aR).

A cord (30) has a triple twist (T1, T2, T3) and comprises an assembly (25) consisting of N=3 strands (20a, 20b, 20c) twisted together with a twist T3 in a direction D2, each strand consisting of M=2 pre-strands, which are themselves twisted together with a twist T2 (T2a, T2b, T2c) in a direction D1 opposite to D2, each pre-strand itself consisting in a yarn that has been previously twisted about itself with a twist T1 in the direction D1, wherein each yarn consists of elementary monofilaments of aromatic polyamide or aromatic copolyamide. Each yarn has a count varying from 90 to 130 tex.

The present invention relates to a radial tire having a cap ply manufactured with a polyethylene terephthalate dip cord. The radial tire comprises: a pair of parallel bead cores; at least one radial carcass ply wound around the bead cores; one or more inclined belt layers layered on the outer circumference of the carcass ply; and one or more cap ply layers layered in the circumferential direction of a tire on the outer circumference of the inclined belt layers, wherein the cap ply comprises a dip cord manufactured using a yarn comprising 90 mol % or more of polyethylene terephthalate, and the dip cord has a shrinkage of 3.0-4.0%, a strength of 2.5-3.0 g/d at an elongation of 5%, a breaking strength of 6.5-7.5 g/d, and a dimensional stability index of 5.8-6.5.

A tire (10) comprises a crown (12) comprising a tread (20), a crown reinforcement (14), a carcass reinforcement (32), two side walls (22), two beads (24), each side wall (22) linking each bead (24) to the crown (12), the crown reinforcement (14) extending in the crown (12) in a circumferential direction (Z) of the tire (10). The textile wire-like hoop reinforcer element (48), the wire-like working reinforcer elements (46) and the wire-like carcass reinforcer elements (44) are arranged so as to define, in projection on the equatorial circumferential plane (E), a triangular mesh. The textile wire-like hoop reinforcer element comprises a core composed of a first strand comprising at least one monofilament, and a layer comprising at least two second strands, each second strand comprising at least one monofilament, each second strand of the layer being helically wound around the core.

A pneumatic tire that can improve high speed durability while reducing a tire weight is provided. The pneumatic tire comprises a carcass, a belt layer comprising a cord inclined to a tire circumferential direction and arranged on the periphery of a crown of the carcass, and a belt reinforcing layer comprising an organic fiber cord arranged on the periphery of the belt layer along a tire circumferential direction. The organic fiber cord comprises an aromatic polyamide fiber having a fineness of 500 to 3,000 dtex, and has a single twist construction having a twist coefficient of 800 to 2,000.