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US 11,884,109 B2Granted
Pneumatic tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki Yoshida
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Abstract
In a pneumatic tire, a pair of first center blocks and two or more second center blocks are alternately arranged in the tire circumferential direction to form a block row of a center land portion. Additionally, the block row of the center land portion is obtained by coupling in a row in the tire circumferential direction and in a zigzag shape via coupling grooves each including a groove bottom portion shallower than first and second inclined lug grooves.
Claims14
A pneumatic tire comprising:
- first and second circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction;
- and a pair of shoulder land portions and one row of a center land portion defined by the first and second circumferential main grooves,
- the center land portion comprising:
- first and second inclined lug grooves extending at an incline with respect to the tire circumferential direction;
- a pair of first center blocks defined by the first and second inclined lug grooves and disposed adjacent in a tire lateral direction;
- and two or more second center blocks defined by the first and second inclined lug grooves and disposed adjacent in the tire lateral direction,
- the pair of first center blocks and the two or more second center blocks being alternately arranged in the tire circumferential direction to form a block row of the center land portion, and
- the block row of the center land portion being obtained by coupling in a row in the tire circumferential direction and in a zigzag shape via coupling grooves each comprising a groove bottom portion shallower than the first and second inclined lug grooves;
- wherein
- the pair of first center blocks are coupled together via a first coupling groove of the coupling grooves, the two or more second center blocks are coupled together via a second coupling groove of the coupling grooves, and a first center block included in the first center blocks and defined by the first circumferential main groove is coupled, via a third coupling groove of the coupling grooves, to a second center block included in the second center blocks and defined by the first circumferential main groove, forming a first block unit, and
- the second center block that is included in the second center blocks forming the first block unit and that is defined by the second circumferential main groove is coupled, via a fourth coupling groove of the coupling grooves, to the first center block that is included in the pair of first center blocks forming a second block unit different from the first block unit and that is defined by the second circumferential main groove, coupling adjacent block units together.
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