A tread (10) for a heavy truck tire is provided that has an upper surface for engaging the ground, a leading edge, and a trailing edge forward of the leading edge in a rolling direction. The tread also has a J shaped sipe (30) that has a main portion (32) that extends from the upper surface. The main portion (32) has an opening at the upper surface and a bottom end (36) opposite the opening in a radial direction. A curved portion (38) extends from the bottom end (36) and has a bottom curved wall (40) that has a radius (r1). The curved portion (38) extends from the bottom end (36) forward in the rolling direction (24), and has a curved portion end (42).

A pneumatic tire of the present disclosure includes, on a tread surface, circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and land portions defined between circumferential main grooves adjacent in a tire width direction among the circumferential main grooves or by the circumferential main grooves and tread edges. The land portions include widthwise grooves extending in the tire width direction and are divided into blocks by the widthwise grooves. At least one widthwise sipe extending in the tire width direction is included within the blocks. Hard rubber with a higher elastic modulus than that of tread rubber is disposed in a tire radial region including at least an opening to the tread surface of a wall defining the widthwise sipe. Microfabrication is applied in a region of the tread surface surrounding at least a portion of the opening of the widthwise sipe to the tread surface.

A tire according to the present disclosure is a tire including, in a tread surface, a tread land portion partitioned by a partitioning groove or by the partitioning groove and a tread edge. The tread land portion includes a sipe extending from a surface of the tread land portion inwardly in a tire radial direction. The sipe includes a widened portion with a larger sipe width than a position adjacent in a sipe longitudinal direction. The cross-sectional area of the widened portion in cross section perpendicular to the tire radial direction is larger on inside than on outside in the tire radial direction.

A tire 1 according to an example of an embodiment includes a plurality of lands, and a tread having a sipe formed in at least part of the lands. An inclined surface is formed between an opening end on at least one side in a width direction of the sipe and a ground contact surface, the inclined surface having a linear shape in cross section and continuing from the ground contact surface. An intermediate surface is formed between the inclined surface and the sipe, the intermediate surface having an inclination angle with respect to the ground contact surface of 0 degrees or having an inclination angle with respect to the ground contact surface that is smaller than an inclination angle of the inclined surface with respect to the ground contact surface.

A tire comprises a tread portion comprising a circumferentially arranged blocks divided by lateral grooves. Each block has a block side wall and a block tread. Each lateral groove comprises an axially outer first portion, an axially inner second portion, and a connect portion at which the first portion and the second portion are connected with each other so that each block is provided with a convex corner portion which is convex toward the outside of the block at the connect portion. In the convex corner portion, the block side wall comprises a first side wall extending along the first portion, a second side wall extending along the second portion, and a substantially triangular third side wall intersecting the first side wall, the second side wall and the block tread. The third side wall terminates radially outside the groove bottom of the lateral groove.

It is an object to provide a tire having well-improved fuel efficiency, wet grip performance, abrasion resistance, and wet grip performance at a later stage of abrasion. Provided is a tire comprising a tread part of a rubber composition comprising a rubber component comprising an isoprene-based rubber and a styrene-butadiene rubber, wherein a vinyl content of the styrene-butadiene rubber is greater than 26 mol %, wherein a given ratio A of an ash content of the rubber composition is greater than 25 mol %, wherein the tread part comprises two or more circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction, and land parts partitioned by the circumferential main grooves, wherein at least one land part of the land parts comprises at least one given flask-like circumferential groove extending in the tire circumferential direction.

A lamella plate for forming a sipe to a tire includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The first surface has a first primary plate indentation and a first primary plate protrusion, and the second surface has a second primary plate protrusion opposite to the first primary plate indentation and a second primary plate indentation opposite to the first primary plate protrusion. The first surface defines a first primary lamella plate surface having a planar or a curved surface, from which the first primary plate protrusion protrudes and into which the first primary plate indentation descends. The second surface defines a second primary lamella plate surface having a planar surface or a curved surface, from which the second primary plate protrusion protrudes and into which the second primary plate indentation descends. A tire includes a primary first sipe producible in a molding process using the lamella plate.

In a pneumatic tire, a sipe includes an edge on a leading side and an edge on a trailing side; the edge and the edge each include a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe; a non-chamfered region in which other chamfered portions are not present is provided at portions facing the chamfered portions of the sipe; and for all chamfered portions, including at least the chamfered portions of the sipe, formed on grooves other than main grooves, with a ground contact width being equally divided into three in the tire lateral direction, a total projected area A.sub.CE of chamfered portions provided in a center region centrally located in the tire lateral direction and each of total projected areas A.sub.SH of chamfered portions provided in shoulder regions located on either side of the center region satisfy a relationship A.sub.CE<A.sub.SH.

A tread for a tire includes a first circumferential main groove, a second circumferential main groove, a third circumferential main groove, and a fourth circumferential main groove. The fourth main groove has a stabilizing structure for increasing tread stiffness. The stabilizing structure has a circumferentially extending wavy subgroove in a radially innermost bottom of the fourth circumferential main groove.

A pneumatic tire is provided. A tread portion includes shallow grooves formed in a road contact surface of each of shoulder blocks, intermediate blocks, and center blocks, defined by a plurality of longitudinal grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and a plurality of lateral grooves extending in a tire lateral direction, the shallow groove having a smaller groove depth than the longitudinal groove and the lateral groove. The shallow groove extends along the tire lateral direction, and at least one end thereof communicates with the longitudinal groove or the lateral groove. A contour line of the shallow groove is provided with at least one bend point. A sipe is provided in a flat bottom surface of the shallow groove extending along the shallow groove. Among the shallow grooves, center shallow grooves formed in the center block are each provided with a terminating end portion terminating in the center block.