Invention Application
US20050247388A1 Tire with asymmetric tread pattern and method of mounting the tire
审中-公开
具有不对称胎面花纹的轮胎和安装轮胎的方法
- Patent Title: Tire with asymmetric tread pattern and method of mounting the tire
- Patent Title (中): 具有不对称胎面花纹的轮胎和安装轮胎的方法
-
Application No.: US10526084Application Date: 2003-09-01
-
Publication No.: US20050247388A1Publication Date: 2005-11-10
- Inventor: Yasuo Ohsawa , Takafumi Sawada , Takanari Saguchi , Kazuto Fujita , Arata Tomita
- Applicant: Yasuo Ohsawa , Takafumi Sawada , Takanari Saguchi , Kazuto Fujita , Arata Tomita
- Priority: JP2002-253645 20020830; JP2002-254020 20020830; JP2002-254053 20020830; JP2002-254173 20020830
- International Application: PCT/JP03/11163 WO 20030901
- Main IPC: B60C11/01
- IPC: B60C11/01 ; B60C11/03 ; B60C11/04 ; B60C19/00 ; B60C11/117 ; B60C111/00 ; G01M17/02

Abstract:
This invention relates to a tire suitable in a passenger car, particularly a tire being high in the resistance to hydroplaning on a wet road surface and low in the tire noise and having an asymmetric tread pattern. In such a tread pattern that at least two circumferential grooves extending along an equatorial plane of the tire are formed in a region of a tread surface at an axially inner side with respect to the equatorial plane in the mounting on the vehicle and at least one circumferential groove is formed in a region at an axially outer side thereof, a circumferential groove nearest to the equatorial plane of the tire among the circumferential grooves arranged in the axially inner side region has a width wider by 20% or more than an average groove width of the tire and a circumferential groove arranged toward a side of a tread end at the axially inner side region has a width corresponding to 90-110% of the average groove width, and the circumferential groove nearest to the equatorial plane of the tire at the axially outer side region has a width narrower by 10% or more than the average groove width, whereby the resistance to hydroplaning and the controllability of tire noise, which have a conflicting relation in the prior art, are established in a higher level.
Information query