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US 2014/0110026 A1Published application
Pneumatic radial tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorJun Koyanagi
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Abstract
A pneumatic radial tire according to the present invention has a tread pattern specifying a tire rotation direction and an optimized shape of a groove wall on a kicking-out side of a lateral groove.
Claims4
A pneumatic radial tire comprising:
- a directional pattern specifying a rotation direction of the tire;
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- at least one lateral groove provided in a tread surface of the tire extending from a tread end to the inside, in the width direction, of a widthwise midpoint P of a tread half having the tread end, wherein
- a groove wall on a kicking-out side of the at least one lateral groove has a protruding portion protruding toward a groove wall on a stepping side, and
- with reference to a point Q representing a midpoint in a tread width direction between the tread end and the widthwise midpoint P, the protruding portion extends in the tread width direction from a position between the point P and the point Q to the inside of the point P in the width direction.
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