B60C2011/0348

TIRE
20220097457 · 2022-03-31 ·

A circumferential narrow main groove extending in a circumferential direction in a tread of a pneumatic tire. The circumferential narrow main groove includes a narrow portion opening to a road contact surface of the tread and a widened portion having a wider groove width than the narrow portion. The widened portion is at a groove bottom. A groove width ratio (W2/W1) of a maximum groove width W2 of the widened portion to a groove width W1 of the narrow groove portion is in a range 1.5≤(W2/W1)≤4.0, and a cross-sectional area ratio (A2/A1) of a groove bottom-side cross-sectional area A2 to a groove opening-side cross-sectional area A1 in a meridian cross-section is within a range 1.2<(A2/A1)<4.0 when the circumferential narrow main groove is divided into two parts at 50% of a maximum groove depth of the circumferential narrow main groove. The cross-sectional area ratio changes along the circumferential direction.

TIRE
20220097458 · 2022-03-31 ·

A tire includes shoulder main grooves, circumferential narrow grooves disposed between the shoulder main grooves and each having a groove width of 0.5 mm to 3.0 mm, and five or more rows of land portions defined by the shoulder main grooves and the circumferential narrow grooves. A first land portion includes S-shaped sipes that extend through the first land portion in a width direction. A second land portion includes S-shaped sipes that extend through the second land portion in the width direction, and the second land portion is a rib including a continuous road contact surface in a tire circumferential direction when the tire comes into contact with the ground. Connection portions of the S-shaped sipes of the first and second land portions with respect to the circumferential narrow grooves are at identical positions in the tire circumferential direction.

TIRE
20220097461 · 2022-03-31 ·

A tire includes a circumferential narrow groove disposed in a tread portion center region and having a groove width of 0.5 mm or more and 3.0 mm or less, and a first land portion defined by the circumferential narrow groove and a second land portion located further on a tire equatorial plane side than the first land portion and adjacent to the first land portion. Additionally, the first and second land portions include chamfered portions, respectively in edge portions on the circumferential narrow groove side. Additionally, a circumferential length L33 of the chamfered portion of the second land portion has the relationship L33<L24 with respect to a circumferential length L24 of the chamfered portion of the first land portion.

Tire tread including serrations in recessed pockets of groove sidewall

A tire includes first and second laterally spaced sides and a tread interposed between the first and second sides. The tread includes a tread surface having at least one groove therein, the at least one groove including facing, first and second sidewalls separated by a groove bottom surface. A first pocket region of recessed serrations extends over at least a portion of the first sidewall and a second pocket region of recessed serrations extends over at least a portion of the second sidewall. The serrations of the first and second pocket regions are staggered in a circumferential direction relative to one another.

TIRE
20220072910 · 2022-03-10 · ·

Provided is a tire including, in a surface of a tread of the tire, a land portion row in which four land portions are arranged in parallel in a width direction of the tread, in a land portion on one end side of the land portion row, a recess that opens in a circumferential groove on an adjacent land portion side, and an intermittent sipe extending in an orientation intersecting the width direction of the tread, intermittently by being interrupted by the circumferential groove, from a position of a start end corresponding to the recess, across three land portions of the four land portions excluding the land portion on the one end side, wherein the intermittent sipe opens in a surface of each of the three land portions via an inclined surface from the surface of each of the three land portions toward the intermittent sipe.

PNEUMATIC TIRE
20210331522 · 2021-10-28 ·

A tire, comprising: a plurality of shoulder blocks side by side in a tire circumferential direction on the outermost side in a tire width direction, by a main groove extending in the tire circumferential direction in a tread surface of a tread portion and by a plurality of subsidiary grooves intersecting the main groove; and a plurality of sipes extending along the tire width direction in the tread surface of each of the plurality of shoulder blocks and provided side by side in the tire circumferential direction. Each of the plurality of sipes includes at least an end portion terminated on an outer side in the tire width direction, a cap tread rubber forming the tread surface has JIS hardness Ha of in a range of not less than 45 and not greater than 55, a snow traction index in a 0° direction is less than 180.

PNEUMATIC TIRE
20210331524 · 2021-10-28 · ·

A pneumatic tire of the embodiment including two main grooves provided on a tread and extending in a tire circumferential direction; a center land portion formed between the two main grooves and extending in the tire circumferential direction; a pair of shoulder land portions formed between a ground contact end and the main groove; a center auxiliary groove provided on the center land portion; and a shoulder auxiliary groove provided on the shoulder land portion, in which the center auxiliary groove has a groove width narrower than that of the main groove and extends in the tire circumferential direction, and the shoulder auxiliary groove has a groove width narrower than that of the main groove and extends in the tire circumferential direction.

AVERAGE VOID DEPTH TRUCK TIRE WITH ANGLED RIBS HAVING DECOUPLED SHOULDER BLOCKS

A heavy truck tire tread with a rib (18) located between first (14) and second (16) tread grooves. A shoulder block (30) is adjacent the rib and at a shoulder edge of the tread, and a decouple groove (32) is present that decouples the shoulder block from the rib. The decouple groove is spaced from and free from engagement with the shoulder edge, and extends at least twice as long in the longitudinal direction than in the lateral direction. The width of the decouple groove is less than widths of the first and second tread grooves. The tread has an average void depth that does not go past a twenty percent line, where the twenty percent line is twenty percent of a full void depth located from an outer surface of the tread, and where the average void depth does not include decouple grooves and tread outboard from the decouple grooves.

Tire
11148474 · 2021-10-19 · ·

A tire includes four zigzag circumferential grooves and hexagonal blocks divided by the lateral grooves each extending so as to connect between adjacent ones of the zigzag circumferential grooves. The zigzag circumferential grooves include a pair of center circumferential grooves each having a groove width not more than 4.0 mm and a pair of shoulder circumferential grooves each having a groove width larger than that of each of the center circumferential grooves. A depth of each of the lateral grooves is smaller than a depth of each of the zigzag circumferential grooves, and a groove bottom of each of the lateral grooves is provided with a first sipe.

Tire

A tire includes an outboard tread edge and an inboard tread edge to be located on an outboard side and an inboard side of a vehicle, respectively, circumferentially and continuously extending main grooves, and land portions divided by the main grooves. The land portions include an outboard shoulder land portion, an outboard middle land portion, an inboard shoulder land portion, and an inboard middle land portion. Each of the outboard shoulder land portion, the inboard shoulder land portion, and the inboard middle land portion is provided with axially extending lateral grooves. The outboard middle land portion is provided with outboard middle lateral grooves extending from an edge of the outboard middle land portion on the outboard tread edge side toward the inboard tread edge. The outboard middle lateral grooves are inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction at angles smaller than those of the lateral grooves.