Pneumatic Tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorTakahiro Yamakawa
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AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorTakahiro Yamakawa
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A pneumatic tire includes four main grooves defining a central land portion, intermediate land portions, and outer land portions. Compound grooves including lateral grooves communicate with the main groove and terminate inside a land portion, and including sipes extending from the lateral grooves to the main groove, are formed at an interval in the tire-circumferential direction in the central land portion or an intermediate land portion. An opening direction of the lateral grooves relative to the main grooves alternatingly reverses in the tire circumferential direction. The lateral grooves include a broad width portion that opens to the main groove and extends at a constant groove width, and a narrow width portion positioned between the broad width portion and the sipe and extends at a constant groove width narrower than the broad width portion.
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
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