Pneumatic tire
AssigneeToyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorTsuyoshi Fujioka
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Abstract
In a shoulder block row in which a plurality of shoulder blocks are disposed in a tire circumferential direction, a lateral groove between adjacent shoulder blocks in the tire circumferential direction has a first shallow groove portion that is positioned on a side close to a main groove and has a depth shallower than that of the main groove, a third shallow groove portion that is positioned on a side close to a tire ground contact end and has a depth shallower than that of the main groove, and a second shallow groove portion that is positioned between the first shallow groove portion and the third shallow groove portion, and has a depth shallower than those of the first shallow groove portion and the third shallow groove portion.
Claims6
A pneumatic tire comprising:
- a tread portion, wherein a shoulder block row in which a plurality of shoulder blocks partitioned by lateral grooves between a main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a tire ground contact end are arranged in the tire circumferential direction, are provided at an end portion of the tread portion in a tire width direction,
- wherein the lateral groove between adjacent shoulder blocks in the tire circumferential direction includes a first shallow groove portion that is positioned on a side close to the main groove and has a depth shallower than that of the main groove, a third shallow groove portion that is positioned on a side close to the tire ground contact end and has a depth shallower than that of the main groove, and a second shallow groove portion that is positioned between the first shallow groove portion and the third shallow groove portion, and has a depth shallower than those of the first shallow groove portion and the third shallow groove portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.