Pneumatic tire
AssigneeToyo Tire Corporation
InventorAkito NAKATANI
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Abstract
Provided is a pneumatic tire capable of reducing the likelihood that a tip portion of a V-shaped land decreases in rigidity and experiences uneven wear, thereby improving steering stability. A pneumatic tire includes a tread and has a tire rotation direction specified therefore. The tread includes a first V-shaped land as a V-shaped land projecting toward a forward side of the tire rotation direction, and a V-shaped groove as a groove externally defining the first V-shaped land, and the first V-shaped land includes a tapered portion extending toward the forward side of the tire rotation direction from a leading edge of the first V-shaped land closer to the forward side of the tire rotation direction, the tapered portion being inclined from the leading edge toward a bottom of the V-shaped groove.
Claims12
A pneumatic tire comprising a tread and having a tire rotation direction specified therefor,
- the tread including:
- a V-shaped land projecting toward a forward side of the tire rotation direction;
- and a groove externally defining the V-shaped land,
- the V-shaped land including a tapered portion extending toward the forward side of the tire rotation direction from a leading edge of the V-shaped land closer to the forward side of the tire rotation direction, and the tapered portion being inclined from the leading edge toward a bottom of the groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.