Tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsTomoo Hasegawa, Fumihiro Nomura, Yosuke Mori
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Abstract
A tire 1 includes plural land portions 40 formed on a tread portion 10. The plural land portions 40 are segmented by a circumferential direction groove 30 extending in a tire circumferential direction L and a width direction groove 20, or segmented by an end portion 10E of the tread portion 10 in the tire width direction W and the width direction groove 20. A length of the width direction groove 20 in the tire width direction W is not less than 30% of a length of the tread portion 10 in the tire width direction W. The width direction groove 20 has at least one angled portion 50A/50B configured to be bent toward an opposite direction to a tire rotational direction R on at least one side of a tire equator line CL.
Claims7
A tire comprising:
- a plurality of land portions formed on a tread portion, wherein
- the plurality of land portions is segmented by one or more circumferential direction grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and width direction grooves extending in a tire width direction, and an end portion of the tread portion in the tire width direction,
- a length of the width direction grooves in the tire width direction is not less than 30% of a length of the tread portion in the tire width direction,
- each of the width direction grooves has an angled portion configured to be bent so that both ends of each of the width direction grooves are directed toward an opposite direction to a tire rotational direction,
- the one or more circumferential direction grooves include a central circumferential direction groove extending on the tire equator line along the tire circumferential direction,
- each of the width direction grooves having the angled portion extends from the end portion of the tread portion in the tire width direction to the central circumferential direction groove,
- the plurality of land portions includes central land portions that are formed in a tread center area including the tire equator line as a center in the tire width direction,
- the tread center area has a width that is not larger than 40% of the length of the tread portion in the tire width direction, and
- a ratio P/H of a length P of the central land portions in the tire circumferential direction and a height H of the central land portions in a tire radial direction is not smaller than 2 and not larger than 3.5;
- and
- a plurality of belt plies, wherein
- the angled portion is disposed near a tire width direction position that is associated with an end portion of a belt ply that has the smallest angle between cords constructing the belt ply and the tire circumferential direction,
- the belt ply having the smallest angle between cords and the tire circumferential direction is disposed below a belt layer having a larger angle between cords and the tire circumferential direction than the smallest angle,
- wherein the tire is a heavy load tire comprising three belt plys, each belt ply including two belt layers,
- an upper belt ply and a middle belt ply of the three belt plys have a cord angle that is larger than a lower belt ply of the three belt plys, and
- the upper belt ply and the middle belt ply extend outward of a position located about ¼ of the width of the tread portion from the tire equator line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.