Patent classifications
B60C2011/0369
Pneumatic tire
A pneumatic tire includes a tread; sidewalls; and beads. The tread includes main grooves, including a center main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a pair of shoulder main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction, and land portions defined between the main grooves. At least one of the land portions includes lug grooves extending from at least one of the main grooves defining the at least one of the land portions and terminating within the at least one of the land portions. At least one of the lug grooves includes a raised bottom portion that is shallower than a groove bottom at a portion on an opening end side and a communicating portion that extends in a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the lug grooves following the raised bottom portion and is deeper than the raised bottom portion.
Tire
A tire includes a tread formed with: circumferential grooves extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction; lateral grooves connecting the circumferential grooves in a tire axial direction; and blocks divided by the circumferential grooves and the lateral grooves. In the lateral groove, a groove bottom is raised to form a tie bar connecting the blocks in the tire circumferential direction. The tie bar is formed with a groove portion penetrating the tie bar in the tire axial direction. In a state where the tire is assembled to a regular rim, filled with a regular internal pressure, loaded with a regular load, and contacting a flat surface at a camber angle 0°, a side wall formed on the tie bar by the groove portion on one side in the tire circumferential direction does not contact a side wall on the other side in the tire circumferential direction.
Tire
A tire has a tread portion having a second middle land region which is provided with middle lateral grooves and circumferentially divided into middle blocks. Each middle block is provided with two first middle sipes extending from a second shoulder circumferential groove, and one second middle sipe disposed between the two first middle sipes. Each first middle sipe extends in a wavy manner in its depth direction. The second middle sipe extends straight in its depth direction. The second middle sipe extends from the second shoulder circumferential groove and is terminated within the second middle land region.
PNEUMATIC TIRE
A pneumatic tire includes a circumferential direction groove extending in a zigzag shape with a first groove part and a second groove part being aligned alternately, a first land part and a second land part. A first lateral groove has a first opening that opens to the first groove part, one groove wall of the first lateral groove is connected to a first land part-side second groove wall demarcating the first land part in the second groove part. A second lateral groove has a second opening that opens to the first groove part and longer than the first opening in the tire circumferential direction, one groove wall of the second lateral groove is connected to a second land part-side second groove wall demarcating the second land part in the second groove part, and the second opening is provided on an extension of the first land part-side second groove wall.
Tyre
A tyre includes a tread portion including a first land portion having a circumferentially extending first edge and a circumferentially extending second edge on its ground contacting surface. The first land portion is provided with sipes each extending from the first edge to the second edge. The sipes include bent sipes each including two or more sipe elements joined with each other to form a bent portion. The bent sipes include first sipes and second sipes. Each first sipe, as the sipes elements, includes at least one first sipe element inclined in a first direction with respect to a tyre axial direction and at least one second sipe element inclined in a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to the tyre axial direction. All sipe elements of each second sipe are inclined in the first direction with respect to the tyre axial direction.
MOTORCYCLE TIRE
A motorcycle tire includes a tread portion including a crown portion that is a region of 50% of a tread development width centered on a tire equator, a first shoulder portion that is an outer region of the crown portion, and first lateral grooves. Each lateral groove includes a first groove portion in the crown portion, a second groove portion in the first shoulder portion, and a third groove portion connecting the first and second groove portions. A groove depth and a groove width of the third groove portion are respectively smaller than groove depths and groove widths of the first groove portion and the second groove portion, respectively. More than 80% of a tire axial length of the third groove portion is in the first shoulder portion.
TIRE FOR ROUGH TERRAIN
A tire for running on rough terrain for which an intended tire rotational direction is specified. The tread portion is provided with blocks raised from a tread base portion. Each block has a first side wall surface comprising a radially outer portion extending substantially straight and radially inwardly, while inclining toward the toe side in the intended tire rotational direction, and a radially inner portion extending from the radially outer portion to the tread base portion while curving in an arc shape. The radially outer portion has a radial length of from 30% to 70% of a radial height of the block.
TIRE FOR ROUGH TERRAIN
A tire for running on rough terrain for which an intended tire rotational direction is specified, and which comprises a tread portion provided with crown blocks disposed on the tire equator. Each of the crown blocks comprises a V-shaped crown block main portion which bends convexly toward a circumferential direction opposite to the intended tire rotation direction, and only two crown fin portions projecting from the crown block main portion toward the above-said circumferential direction opposite to the intended tire rotation direction.
Tire
A tire includes a tread portion. The tread portion has a main groove extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction, and a land portion adjacent to the main groove. The land portion has lateral grooves extending from the main groove in a tire axial direction. Each of the lateral grooves has a first portion communicating with the main groove, and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first portion has a larger groove width than the second portion and has a smaller groove depth than the second portion.
TIRE
A tire comprises a tread portion having an outboard tread edge To and an inboard tread edge Ti. The tread portion is provided with: an outboard shoulder main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction; an outboard crown main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction and disposed between the outboard shoulder main groove and a tire equator; and outboard lateral grooves extending from the outboard crown main groove to the outboard tread edge To. The groove width of each of the outboard lateral grooves is decreased toward the outboard crown main groove 4.