Pneumatic Tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorTomohisa Nishino
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire comprising circumferential main grooves, a land portion defined by the circumferential main grooves, and a plurality of lug grooves disposed in the land portion that open to the circumferential main grooves. The land portion comprises notch portions formed on opening portions of the lug grooves and chamfered portions formed on edge portions of the notch portions. The notch portions have an edge portion with a V-shape projecting in a tire circumferential direction. A maximum width W2 of the notch portions and a width W3 of the chamfered portions have the relationship 0.30≦W3/W2≦1.80.
Claims14
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
- a plurality of circumferential main grooves;
- a land portion defined by a pair of the plurality of circumferential main grooves;
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- a plurality of lug grooves disposed in the land portion that open to at least one of the plurality of circumferential main grooves;
- the land portion comprising notch portions formed only on opening portions of the lug grooves, and chamfered portions formed on edge portions of the notch portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.