Pneumatic vehicle tire

Claim 1

In a pneumatic vehicle tire having a radial carcass, the load-carriers of which are made of a material of high strength comparable to that of steel, and the ends of which are anchored in the tire beads by being looped around pull-resistant bead cores, with said tire having a centrally disposed tread strip that has recessed portions respectively on each tread side, and with said tire also having a multi-ply belt, said belt relative to the tread sides respectively extending into the said recessed portions, and which has load-carriers made of a material of high strength comparable to that of steel, the improvement in combination therewith comprising: a first rubber layer, of soft, low-damping rubber, that disposed between said radial carcass and the radially innermost one of said plies of said belt and that extends continuously between opposite belt edges as well as to the sides of the tire beyond the belt plies, with said rubber layer having a Shore A hardness of from 50 to 65, and furthermore having a rebound elasticity specifically in a range of between 55 and 70%; and a second low-damping rubber layer that is disposed between plies of said belt; said first rubber layer, over its entire axial extension, having a thickness of up to 2 mm.