Pneumatic Tire
AssigneeToyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorToshiyuki Ohashi
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Abstract
The invention provides a pneumatic tire which can obtain a sufficient engagement force in a depth direction in comparison with a known pattern while making good use of an advantage of a waveform sipe, and is hard to be affected in an inhibiting effect in accordance with a collapsing direction of a block. In a pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern having a plurality of blocks forming a plurality of sipes therein, the sipe is formed in a zigzag or wavy line shape on a surface of the block and formed as a waveform groove in a depth direction, and the waveform groove has an auxiliary wavy portion in a wavy surface direction, and has a concave portion in a peak portion of the wave.
Claims4
A pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern having a plurality of blocks forming a plurality of sipes therein,
- wherein the sipe is formed in a zigzag or wavy line shape on a surface of the block and formed as a waveform groove in a depth direction, and
- wherein the waveform groove has an auxiliary wavy portion in a wavy surface direction, and has a concave portion in a peak portion of the wave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.