Pneumatic tire
AssigneeToyo Tire Corporation
InventorYusuke Ikuno
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire includes a block formed by a main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a lateral groove extending in a tire width direction. The block includes a first inclined surface provided at a corner portion between a first side surface and a top surface, the first inclined surface extending obliquely toward a groove bottom of the main groove or the lateral groove defined by the first side surface, and a first narrow groove extending from a center of the block toward the first side surface, an outer end of the first narrow groove being located on the first inclined surface, the first narrow groove being smaller in groove width than the main groove and the lateral groove.
Claims4
A pneumatic tire, comprising a block formed by at least one main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a pair of lateral grooves extending in a tire width direction and provided at a distance from each other in the tire circumferential direction, wherein the block includes:
- a base portion;
- a first protruding portion protruding from the base portion in a first direction which intersects a tire radial direction, and having a first side surface at a distal end of the first protruding portion;
- a second protruding portion protruding from the base portion in a second direction which intersects the tire radial direction and differs from the first direction, and having a second side surface at a distal end of the second protruding portion;
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- a third protruding portion protruding from the base portion in a third direction which intersects the tire radial direction and differs from the first and second directions, and having a third side surface at a distal end of the third protruding portion,
- wherein the block has a substantially Y-shape in which a gap is provided between each of adjacent two of the first, second, and third side surfaces at the distal ends of the first, second, and third protruding portion, respectively,
- wherein the first protruding portion includes:
- a first inclined surface provided at a corner portion between a top surface of the first protruding portion and the first side surface, the first inclined surface extending obliquely toward a groove bottom of the main groove or one of the lateral grooves defined by the first side surface, and
- a first narrow groove extending from the base portion toward the first side surface of the first protruding portion, an outer end of the first narrow groove being located on the first inclined surface, the first narrow groove being smaller in groove width than the main groove and the lateral grooves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.