Tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeshi Kaneko
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Abstract
A tire includes a mounting direction indicator indicating a tire mounting direction with respect to a vehicle. Additionally, the tire includes a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove extending intermittently or continuously in a tire circumferential direction. Additionally, the second circumferential groove is located further on an inner side than the first circumferential groove in a vehicle width direction in a state in which the tire is mounted on a vehicle. In addition, a distance D1 from the tire equatorial plane to the groove center line of the first circumferential groove and a distance D2 from the second circumferential groove to the groove center line have the relationship D1<D.
Claims10
A tire comprising a mounting direction indicator indicating a tire mounting direction with respect to a vehicle, the tire being a racing pneumatic radial tire configured both for public road running and for circuit running, the tire comprising:
- a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove extending intermittently in a tire circumferential direction,
- the second circumferential groove being located further on an inner side than the first circumferential groove in a vehicle width direction in a state in which the tire is mounted on the vehicle,
- a distance D1 from a tire equatorial plane to a groove center line of the first circumferential groove and a distance D2 from the tire equatorial plane to a groove center line of the second circumferential groove having a relationship D1<D2,
- each of the first and second circumferential grooves including a plurality of grooves arranged discontinuously in a row in the tire circumferential direction and extending intermittently in the tire circumferential direction, and
- each of opening areas of the groove portions constituting the first and second circumferential grooves being in a range of 200 mm2 or more and 340 mm2 or less, wherein maximum groove depths of the first and second circumferential grooves are in a range of 2.5 mm or more and 5.0 mm or less, and
- a groove area ratio of a tire ground contact region is in a range of 3.0% or ore and 5.0% or less,
- wherein a tire cross-sectional height SH has a relationship 0.20≤SH/SW≤0.70 with respect to a total tire width SW, and a tire ground contact width TW has a relationship 0.90≤TW/SW≤0.98 with respect to the total tire width SW.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.