Tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorMasashi WAKASUGI
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Abstract
A tire comprises a tread portion. The tread portion comprises a first tread edge, a shoulder main groove extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction between the first tread edge and a tire equator, and a shoulder land region defined between the first tread edge and the shoulder main groove. The shoulder land region is provided with a shoulder sipe extending in a tire axial direction with a width less than 1.5 mm. The shoulder sipe includes a narrow sipe portion and a wide sipe portion having a width larger than that of the narrow sipe portion. The wide sipe portion is arranged on a side of the shoulder main groove.
Claims20
A tyre comprising a tread portion comprising a first tread edge, a shoulder main groove extending continuously in a tyre circumferential direction between the first tread edge and a tyre equator, and a shoulder land region defined between the first tread edge and the shoulder main groove, wherein
- the shoulder land region is provided with a shoulder sipe extending in a tyre axial direction with a width less than 1.5 mm,
- the shoulder sipe includes a narrow sipe portion and a wide sipe portion having a width larger than that of the narrow sipe portion, and
- the wide sipe portion is arranged on a side of the shoulder main groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.