Tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorShintaro Hayashi
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Abstract
A tire includes primary inclined grooves and auxiliary inclined grooves. Each primary inclined groove has a first gently inclined portion and a first steeply inclined portion. Each auxiliary inclined groove has a second gently inclined portion and a second steeply inclined portion. Each primary inclined groove does not communicate with a circumferential groove on the tire equator line side and extends beyond a tread edge outward in a tire width direction. Each auxiliary inclined groove does not communicate with the circumferential groove on the tire equator line side, and does not reach the tread edge but terminates on the tire equator line side.
Claims4
A tire comprising, in a tread plan view:
- a pair of circumferential grooves formed respectively on opposite sides of a tire equator line and extending in a tire circumferential direction;
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- a plurality of lug grooves formed on an outer side of at least one circumferential groove of the pair of circumferential grooves in a tire width direction, wherein
- the plurality of lug grooves include primary inclined grooves and auxiliary inclined grooves alternately formed in the tire circumferential direction,
- each of the primary inclined grooves does not communicate with the circumferential groove on the tire equator line side and extends beyond a tread edge outward in the tire width direction,
- each primary inclined groove includes:
- a first gently inclined portion located on the tire equator line side;
- and a first steeply inclined portion located on the tread edge side and continuing to the first gently inclined portion,
- an inclination angle of the first steeply inclined portion relative to the tire circumferential direction is larger than an inclination angle of the first gently inclined portion relative to the tire circumferential direction,
- each of the auxiliary inclined grooves does not communicate with the circumferential groove on the tire equator line side, and does not reach the tread edge but terminates on the tire equator line side,
- each auxiliary inclined groove includes:
- a second steeply inclined portion located on the tire equator line side;
- and a second gently inclined portion located on the tread edge side relative to the second steeply inclined portion,
- an inclination angle of the second steeply inclined portion relative to the tire circumferential direction is larger than an inclination angle of the second gently inclined portion relative to the tire circumferential direction, wherein
- each primary inclined groove includes:
- a first contacting groove wall provided on a side that comes into contact with a ground first in a tire rotation direction;
- and a later contacting groove wall provided on a side that comes into contact with the ground later in the tire rotation direction, and
- an inclination of the later contacting groove wall relative to the tire radial direction is larger than an inclination of the first contacting groove wall relative to the tire radial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.