Pneumatic tire with 3d kerf
AssigneeHankook Tire & Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorsJae Wook IHM, Woo Haeng HEO
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Abstract
Proposed is a pneumatic tire with a 3D kerf, including: one or more 3D kerfs; and a tire having a tread and a shoulder formed at a side surface of the tread. The tread has: one or more grooves that are sunken toward a center of the tread and are formed in a circumferential direction of the tire; one or more kerf grooves that are sunken toward the center of the tread and are formed in a central axis direction of the tire; and one or more blocks which are divided by the one or more grooves and the one or more kerf grooves, respectively. The one or more 3D kerfs come into close contact with and are fixed between the one or more blocks, respectively, as being inserted into the one or more kerf grooves, respectively.
Claims9
A pneumatic tire with a 3D kerf, comprising:
- one or more 3D kerfs;
- and
- a tire having a tread and a shoulder formed at a side surface of the tread,
- wherein the tread includes:
- one or more grooves sunken toward a center of the tread and formed in a circumferential direction of the tire;
- one or more kerf grooves sunken toward the center of the tread and formed in a central axis direction of the tire;
- and
- one or more blocks divided by the one or more grooves and the one or more kerf grooves, and
- wherein the one or more 3D kerfs come into close contact with and are fixed between the one or more blocks as being inserted into the one or more kerf grooves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.