Pneumatic tire
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsYoshio KAJI, Hiroshi NOMURA, Shuhei IKEDA
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Abstract
A pneumatic tire in which a surface of a block has a plurality of sipes and a plurality of shallow grooves that extend in mutually opposite directions in the tire width direction, relative to one direction along the tire circumferential direction, depth of the shallow grooves is less than depth of the sipes, an inclination angle θ1 of the sipes relative to the tire circumferential direction is greater than 0° and less than 90°, an inclination angle θ2 of the shallow grooves relative to the tire circumferential direction is greater than 0° and less than 90°, and magnitude of a difference between the inclination angle θ1 and the inclination angle θ2 is 30° or less.
Claims8
A pneumatic tire wherein
- a plurality of blocks are defined on a contact surface of a tread portion by a plurality of circumferential main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and a plurality of width direction groove extending in the tire width direction,
- a surface of each of the blocks has a plurality of sipes and a plurality of shallow grooves that extend in mutually opposite directions in the tire width direction, relative to one direction along the tire circumferential direction,
- depth of the shallow grooves is less than depth of the sipes,
- an inclination angle θ1 of the sipes relative to the tire circumferential direction is greater than 0° and less than 90°,
- an inclination angle θ2 of the shallow grooves relative to the tire circumferential direction is greater than 0° and less than 90°, and
- magnitude of a difference between the inclination angle θ1 and the inclination angle θ2 is 30° or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.