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US 12,479,241 B2Granted
Tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorShingo Nobukuni
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Abstract
A tire can include a tread portion and a buttress portion. The tread portion can include a crown region between a tire equator and a middle position and a shoulder region between a first tread ground-contact end and the middle position. The buttress portion can have a land ratio which is a land portion ratio between the first tread ground-contact end and a first position. A land ratio of the shoulder region can be larger than a land ratio of the crown region and the land ratio of the buttress portion.
Claims19
A tire comprising:
- a tread portion having a first tread ground-contact end;
- and
- a buttress portion extending outward in a tire axial direction from the first tread ground-contact end, wherein
- the tread portion includes:
- a middle position in the tire axial direction between the first tread ground-contact end and a tire equator,
- a crown region between the tire equator and the middle position, and
- a shoulder region between the first tread ground-contact end and the middle position,
- the buttress portion has a first land ratio which is a land portion ratio between the first tread ground-contact end and a first position separated from an outer end in a tire radial direction of the tread portion inward in the tire radial direction by a distance which is 23% of a tire cross-sectional height Ha,
- a second land ratio of the shoulder region is larger than a third land ratio of the crown region and the first land ratio of the buttress portion,
- the tread portion includes a plurality of grooves,
- the plurality of grooves include a plurality of shoulder lateral grooves connected to the first tread ground-contact end,
- the buttress portion includes a plurality of buttress lateral grooves connected to the first tread ground-contact end,
- less than half of the plurality of shoulder lateral grooves are connected to any of the plurality of buttress lateral grooves, and
- one or more of the following:
- a total of edge components in the tire axial direction of grooves provided in the crown region among the plurality of grooves is 30% to 50% of a total of edge components in the tire axial direction of grooves provided in the shoulder region among the plurality of grooves,
- a total of edge components in a tire circumferential direction of grooves provided in the crown region among the plurality of grooves is 300% to 500% of a total of edge components in the tire circumferential direction of grooves provided in the shoulder region among the plurality of grooves, and/or
- in the plurality of buttress lateral grooves, a total of edge components in the tire radial direction is 1000% to 2000% of a total of edge components in the tire circumferential direction.
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A tire comprising:
- a tread portion having a first tread ground-contact end;
- and
- a buttress portion extending outward in a tire axial direction from the first tread ground-contact end, wherein
- the tread portion includes:
- a middle position in the tire axial direction between the first tread ground-contact end and a tire equator,
- a crown region between the tire equator and the middle position, and
- a shoulder region between the first tread ground-contact end and the middle position,
- the buttress portion has a first land ratio which is a land portion ratio between the first tread ground-contact end and a first position separated from an outer end in a tire radial direction of the tread portion inward in the tire radial direction by a distance which is 23% of a tire cross-sectional height Ha,
- a second land ratio of the shoulder region is larger than a third land ratio of the crown region and the first land ratio of the buttress portion,
- the tread portion includes a plurality of grooves,
- the plurality of grooves include a plurality of shoulder lateral grooves connected to the first tread ground-contact end,
- the buttress portion includes a plurality of buttress lateral grooves connected to the first tread ground-contact end,
- less than half of the plurality of shoulder lateral grooves are connected to any of the plurality of buttress lateral grooves, and
- the plurality of buttress lateral grooves include:
- a plurality of first buttress lateral grooves,
- a plurality of second buttress lateral grooves different in configuration from the first buttress lateral grooves,
- a plurality of third buttress lateral grooves different in configuration from the first buttress lateral grooves and the second buttress lateral grooves, and
- a plurality of fourth buttress lateral grooves different in configuration from the first buttress lateral grooves, the second buttress lateral grooves, and the third buttress lateral grooves.
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A tire comprising:
- a tread portion having a first tread ground-contact end;
- and
- a buttress portion extending outward in a tire axial direction from the first tread ground-contact end, wherein
- the tread portion includes:
- a middle position in the tire axial direction between the first tread ground-contact end and a tire equator,
- a crown region between the tire equator and the middle position, and
- a shoulder region between the first tread ground-contact end and the middle position,
- the buttress portion has a first land ratio which is a land portion ratio between the first tread ground-contact end and a first position separated from an outer end in a tire radial direction of the tread portion inward in the tire radial direction by a distance which is 23% of a tire cross-sectional height Ha,
- a second land ratio of the shoulder region is larger than a third land ratio of the crown region and the first land ratio of the buttress portion,
- in a ground-contact surface in a standardized load-applied state where the tire is fitted on a standardized rim with a standardized internal pressure and is brought into contact with a flat surface at a camber angle of 0° with 80% of a load represented by a load index being applied to the tire, and
- a ratio (F/E) of a ground-contact length F in a tire circumferential direction at a second position separated from the tire equator outward in the tire axial direction by 80% of a length in the tire axial direction between the first tread ground-contact end and the tire equator, to a ground-contact length E in the tire circumferential direction on the tire equator, is 0.7 to 0.9.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.