Invention Application
- Patent Title: PNEUMATIC TIRE
- Patent Title (中): 气动轮胎
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Application No.: US12677228Application Date: 2009-04-22
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Publication No.: US20100193096A1Publication Date: 2010-08-05
- Inventor: Yoshimasa Hashimoto
- Applicant: Yoshimasa Hashimoto
- Applicant Address: JP MINATO-KU, TOKYO
- Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP MINATO-KU, TOKYO
- Priority: JP2008-139444 20080528
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/057979 WO 20090422
- Main IPC: B60C11/117
- IPC: B60C11/117 ; B60C11/12

Abstract:
Provided is a pneumatic tire having further improved ice performance achieved by narrow grooves. The pneumatic tire of the present invention is provided, in a tread, with land sections formed by partitioning the tread by grooves, and each of the land sections is provide with narrow grooves in a ground contact surface of the land section. The angle of tilt of the narrow grooves relative to the tire's circumferential direction is set to be larger in end regions located at both sides of a center region in a tire's lateral direction in each of the land sections than in the center region.
Public/Granted literature
- US08967210B2 Pneumatic tire with tread having zigzag sipes and narrow grooves Public/Granted day:2015-03-03
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