B60C11/1263

TIRE
20230011233 · 2023-01-12 · ·

A tire according to the present disclosure is a tire including, in a tread surface, a block-shaped land portion partitioned by a partitioning groove or by the partitioning groove and a tread edge. The block-shaped land portion includes a first sipe and a second sipe extending from different positions in a surface of the block-shaped land portion inwardly in a tire radial direction. The first sipe includes, on a side of a sipe bottom, a widened portion with a larger sipe width than a side of the tread surface. The second sipe includes a plurality of holes recessed inwardly in the tire radial direction in a sipe bottom at positions separate in a sipe longitudinal direction.

PNEUMATIC TIRE

A pneumatic tire includes a first tread-half region from the tire equator to a first tread edge. In the first tread-half region, a crown land portion and a middle land portion are not provided with any grooves having widths equal to or more than 2 mm. In the first tread-half region, crown, middle and shoulder portions are respectively provided with a first crown sipe, a first middle sipe and a first shoulder sipe each having a width less than 2 mm. The first crown sipe, the first middle sipe and the first shoulder sipe are respectively configured as arc shapes having radiuses R1, R2 and R3 of curvature to protrude in a first circumferential direction side, wherein the radiuses R1, R2 and R3 are satisfied the following relation: R1<=R2<=R3, and R1<R3.

Pneumatic tire

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.

TIRE
20230020227 · 2023-01-19 ·

A tire tread pattern includes: first sipes in a first land portion between first and second circumferential main grooves; first chamfered surfaces in which a tread surface of the first land portion is inclined toward a first circumferential main groove side in an end portion in a width direction, the first sipes opening to the first chamfered surfaces; second sipes in a second land portion on an opposite side of the first land portion with respect to the second circumferential main groove; and second chamfered surfaces in which a tread surface of the second land portion is inclined toward a second circumferential main groove side in an end portion in the width direction, the second sipes opening to the second chamfered surfaces. The first and second. chamfered surfaces are greater in length in the circumferential direction than in the width direction.

TIRE
20230015786 · 2023-01-19 ·

A tread pattern of a tire includes: a circumferential main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction; a plurality of sipes extending in a tire width direction within a region of a land portion in contact in the tire width direction with the circumferential main groove; and a chamfered surface having a tread surface of the land portion inclined toward the circumferential main groove in an end portion in the tire width direction on a circumferential main groove side of the land portion, the chamfered surface being provided in a plurality in the tire circumferential direction, and the sipes opening to the plurality of the chamfered surfaces without reaching a groove wall of the circumferential main groove. The length of the chamfered surface in the tire circumferential direction is greater than the length thereof in the tire width direction.

Pneumatic tire, a tread band, and a tread block comprising a sipe, and a lamella plate for the manufacture thereof
11554613 · 2023-01-17 · ·

A pneumatic tire is provided with sipes, at least some of which have an open top end to the surface of the tread block. An intersection of the sipe with a surface that is geometrically congruent and parallel with the surface of the tread block and arranged a depth apart from the surface of the tread block into the tread block forms a curved line. A first sipe is shaped in such a way, that at all depths (d) within a range from the open top of the first sipe to a first transition depth, the curved line includes at least one deflection point having an inner corner that has a radius of curvature under 0.3 mm. A lamella plate for manufacturing the pneumatic tire, the tread band, or the tread block. Use of the lamella plate for manufacturing a tread block, a tread band, or a pneumatic tire.

Tire
11691459 · 2023-07-04 · ·

A tire comprises a tread portion. The tread portion is provided with a sipe. The sipe comprises four sipe segments: a first sipe segment, a second sipe segment, a third sipe segment, and a fourth sipe segment. At least one of the first sipe segment and the third sipe segment comprises an oscillated portion which extends in the radial direction of the tire, while oscillating in a lateral direction orthogonal to the length direction of the sipe in a cross section of the sipe orthogonal to the length direction. Each of the first sipe segment and the third sipe segment comprises the oscillated portion including an oscillating-start portion, and the oscillating-start portion of the first sipe segment is inclined with respect to the tire radial direction in the same direction as the oscillating-start portion of the third sipe segment.

PNEUMATIC TIRE
20220410628 · 2022-12-29 · ·

A pneumatic tire includes circumferential main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction on the tread surface, and in widthwise outermost land portions, widthwise grooves extending from the tread edges inward in the tire width direction and widthwise sipes extending from the tire widthwise inner edge of the widthwise grooves inward in the tire width direction and connecting to the circumferential main groove. Each widthwise sipe includes a widened portion, by the sipe bottom, with a larger sipe width than at the tread surface. A rectangle ratio is less than 0.8. In a tire radial region containing the widened portion, the widened portion includes a portion extending at a first angle relative to the tire width direction. In plan view of the tread surface, each widthwise sipe extends along the tire width direction or at a second angle smaller than the first angle relative to the tire width direction.

TIRE
20220410634 · 2022-12-29 ·

A tire tread includes a pair of first circumferential main grooves in a first half-tread region on one side in a tire width direction, a pair of second circumferential main grooves in a second half-tread region, first sipes provided in a first region between the first circumferential main grooves, a circumferential narrow groove having a groove width smaller than a groove width of the first circumferential main groove and extending in the tire circumferential direction within the first region, and sipes in a second region between the second circumferential main grooves, extending in the tire width direction, and closing within the second region. The number of intervals of the second sipes mutually adjacent is larger than the number of intervals of the first sipes mutually adjacent.

TIRE

A tire includes a tread portion including a first cap rubber layer forming a ground contact surface and having a loss tangent tan δ1, and a second cap rubber layer disposed inwardly in a tire radial direction of the first cap rubber layer and having a loss tangent tan δ2, the loss tangent tan δ2 being greater than the loss tangent tan δ1. The tread portion is provided with a plurality of sipes opening to the ground contact surface, The plurality of sipes, at least partially, extends inwardly in a tire radial direction from the ground contact surface to a. location beyond a boundary between the first cap rubber layer and the second cap rubber layer, and a maximum length L2 of the plurality of sipes in the second cap rubber layer is smaller than a length L1 of the plurality of sipes at the ground contact surface.