Tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorKazuma Mori
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Abstract
A tire comprises a tread portion. The tread portion is provided with a sipe. The sipe comprises four sipe segments: a first sipe segment, a second sipe segment, a third sipe segment, and a fourth sipe segment. At least one of the first sipe segment and the third sipe segment comprises an oscillated portion which extends in the radial direction of the tire, while oscillating in a lateral direction orthogonal to the length direction of the sipe in a cross section of the sipe orthogonal to the length direction. Each of the first sipe segment and the third sipe segment comprises the oscillated portion including an oscillating-start portion, and the oscillating-start portion of the first sipe segment is inclined with respect to the tire radial direction in the same direction as the oscillating-start portion of the third sipe segment.
Claims19
A tire comprising a tread portion provided with a plurality of sipes adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the tire, wherein
- each of the sipes comprises a portion in which a plurality of repeat units is connected in series in a length direction of the sipe,
- each of the repeat units is bent so that four sipe segments form acute angles with each other, said four sipe segments include:
- a first sipe segment extending in a tire axial direction, a second sipe segment extending from an end of the first sipe segment in a first tire circumferential direction,
- a third sipe segment extending in the tire axial direction from the second sipe segment, and
- a fourth sipe segment connected to the third sipe segment and extending from the third sipe segment in a second tire circumferential direction opposite the first tire circumferential direction,
- each of the first sipe segment and the third sipe segment comprises, in a cross section orthogonal to the length direction, an oscillated portion which extends in a tire radial direction, while oscillating in a lateral direction orthogonal to said length direction,
- the oscillated portion comprises an oscillating-start portion which extends from a ground contacting surface of the tread portion toward an inside in the tire radial direction while inclining toward one side in said lateral direction, and the oscillating-start portion of the first sipe segment is inclined with respect to the tire radial direction in a same direction as the oscillating-start portion of the third sipe segment, and
- only the first and third sipes have the oscillated portion, and each of the second sipe segment and the fourth sipe segment extend only in the tire radial direction and do not have the oscillated portion.
A tire comprising a tread portion provided with a plurality of sipes adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the tire, wherein
- each of the sipes comprises a portion in which a plurality of repeat units is connected in series in a length direction of the sipe,
- each of the repeat units is bent so that four sipe segments form acute angles with each other, said four sipe segments include:
- a first sipe segment extending in a tire axial direction, a second sipe segment extending from an end of the first sipe segment in a first tire circumferential direction,
- a third sipe segment extending in the tire axial direction from the second sipe segment, and
- a fourth sipe segment connected to the third sipe segment and extending from the third sipe segment in a second tire circumferential direction opposite the first tire circumferential direction,
- each of the first sipe segment and the third sipe segment comprises, in a cross section orthogonal to the length direction, an oscillated portion which extends in a tire radial direction, while oscillating in a lateral direction orthogonal to said length direction,
- the oscillated portion comprises an oscillating-start portion which extends from a ground contacting surface of the tread portion toward an inside in the tire radial direction while inclining toward one side in said lateral direction, and the oscillating-start portion of the first sipe segment is inclined with respect to the tire radial direction in a same direction as the oscillating-start portion of the third sipe segment, and
- of the plurality of sipes, only the first and third sipes have the oscillated portion per repeat unit.
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