Tire
AssigneeHankook Tire Co., Ltd.
InventorsEun Chang Chun, Yong Keun Kim, Myeong Rak Choi
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Abstract
A tire that can attach and detach and that can prevent splash when running a wet road and cool discharging a heat is provided. The tire having a tread and a shoulder portion connected to the tread includes a protector portion provided in a circumferential direction at a side surface of the shoulder portion and in which a plurality of penetration portions are formed at a predetermined gap in a length direction; a plurality of protruding portions provided in the protector portion and formed at a predetermined gap in a length direction of the protector portion; and a plurality of installation grooves formed at a side surface of the shoulder portion such that the protruding portion attaches or detaches when the protruding portion enters or discharges.
Claims11
A tire comprising:
- a tread and a shoulder portion connected to the tread;
- a protector portion configured to be attached to a side surface of the shoulder portion so as to be disposed in a circumferential direction of the shoulder portion, and in which a plurality of penetration portions are formed at a predetermined gap in a length direction of the protector portion;
- a plurality of protruding portions protruded from the protector portion and arranged at a predetermined gap in the length direction of the protector portion;
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- a plurality of installation grooves formed at the side surface of the shoulder portion,
- wherein the protector portion has a body portion, an outer circumferential surface which is one surface of the body portion exposed to an outside of the tire, and an inner circumferential surface which is another surface of the body portion that is configured to contact the side surface of the shoulder portion,
- wherein the plurality of penetration portions are respectively formed in a groove shape at the inner circumferential surface,
- wherein the plurality of protruding portions are respectively connected to a support portion protruded between the adjacent respective penetration portions, and
- wherein each of the plurality of protruding portions includes a protrusion head and a protrusion body extended from the protrusion head, and an external circumference of at least one portion of the protrusion head is larger than an external circumference of the protrusion body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.