Pneumatic tire and vehicle
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorAtsushi Tanno
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire includes a carcass portion, a belt layer, a tread portion including a tread rubber, and a sidewall portion including a sidewall rubber. The tread portion includes a center portion, shoulder portions disposed on both sides of the center portion, and a lug groove disposed at the shoulder portions and extending outward of a ground contact edge portion of the tread portion. A shoulder region is defined between the ground contact edge portion and a terminating portion of the lug groove. A colored region is disposed continuously or intermittently in the circumferential direction at the shoulder region.
Claims24
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
- a carcass portion;
- a belt layer;
- a tread portion including a tread rubber;
- and
- a sidewall portion including a sidewall rubber;
- wherein
- the tread portion includes:
- a center portion,
- shoulder portions disposed on both sides of the center portion,
- a lug groove disposed at the shoulder portions and extending outward of a ground contact edge portion of the tread portion, wherein
- a shoulder region is defined as a region between the ground contact edge portion and a terminating portion of the lug groove,
- the shoulder region is an uncontacted region to a ground and is disposed out of the ground contact edge portion in the tire width direction,
- a colored region is disposed continuously or intermittently in the circumferential direction in the shoulder region,
- the colored region is provided outward in the radial direction of an edge in the tire width direction of the belt layer in a meridian cross-section through a tire rotation axis,
- the colored region and the belt layer overlap each other in the tire width direction, and
- the colored region is not disposed at any surface of the pneumatic tire other than the shoulder portions.
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
- a carcass portion;
- a belt layer;
- a tread portion including a tread rubber;
- and
- a sidewall portion including a sidewall rubber;
- wherein
- the tread portion includes:
- a center portion,
- shoulder portions disposed on both sides of the center portion,
- a lug groove disposed at the shoulder portions and extending outward of a ground contact edge portion of the tread portion, wherein
- a shoulder region is defined as a region between the ground contact edge portion and a terminating portion of the lug groove,
- the shoulder region is an uncontacted region to a ground and is disposed out of the ground contact edge portion in the tire width direction,
- a colored region is disposed continuously or intermittently in the circumferential direction in the shoulder region,
- the colored region and the belt layer overlap each other in the tire width direction in a meridian cross-section through a tire rotation axis, and
- the colored region is not disposed at any surface of the pneumatic tire other than the shoulder portions.
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
- a carcass portion;
- a belt layer;
- a tread portion including a tread rubber;
- and
- a sidewall portion including a sidewall rubber;
- wherein
- the tread portion includes:
- a center portion,
- shoulder portions disposed on both sides of the center portion,
- a lug groove disposed at the shoulder portions and extending outward of a ground contact edge portion of the tread portion, wherein
- a shoulder region is defined as a region between the ground contact edge portion and a terminating portion of the lug groove,
- the shoulder region is an uncontacted region to a ground and is disposed out of the ground contact edge portion in the tire width direction,
- a colored region is disposed continuously or intermittently in the circumferential direction in the shoulder region, and
- the colored region is not disposed at any surface of the pneumatic tire other than the shoulder portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.