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US 2021/0260930 A1Published application
Pneumatic tire
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorShun SATO
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire includes circumferential main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and arranged side by side in the tire width direction and a land portion defined by the circumferential main grooves. The land portion includes notch portions extending in the tire width direction and connected to the circumferential main grooves and shallow groove portions connected to the notch portions, respectively, and terminating in the land portion. The height of the notch portions decreases continuously toward the circumferential main grooves connected thereto.
Claims13
A pneumatic tire, comprising:
- two circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and arranged side by side in a tire width direction;
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- a first land portion defined by the two circumferential main grooves,
- the two circumferential main grooves comprising an inner circumferential main groove closest to a tire equatorial plane and an outer circumferential main groove provided on an outer side in the tire width direction of the inner circumferential main groove,
- the first land portion comprising a notch portion extending in the tire width direction and connected to the circumferential main groove and a shallow groove portion connected to the notch portion and terminating in the first land portion, and
- a height of the notch portion decreasing continuously toward the circumferential main groove connected thereto.
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