Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pneumatic tire with asymmetric tread pattern
- Patent Title (中): 具有不对称胎面花纹的气动轮胎
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Application No.: US12608066Application Date: 2009-10-29
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Publication No.: US08550133B2Publication Date: 2013-10-08
- Inventor: Tadao Matsumoto
- Applicant: Tadao Matsumoto
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe-shi, Hyogo
- Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe-shi, Hyogo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2008-312456 20081208
- Main IPC: B60C11/03
- IPC: B60C11/03

Abstract:
A tire having an asymmetric tread pattern that land proportion of outer side area 2o is larger than inner side area 2i, but having a reduced difference in drainage performance between tires on right and left wheels, the tire having tread surface 2 divided by four circumferential grooves 3 and 4 into center land 5, middle lands 6, 6 and shoulder lands 7, 7, wherein middle land 6o and shoulder land 7o in the outer side area 2o are divided respectively by outer middle lateral grooves 8o and outer shoulder lateral grooves 10o into blocks 9o and blocks 11o, inclination direction of the middle lateral grooves 8o is opposite to that of the shoulder lateral grooves 10o with respect to tire axial direction, and the lateral grooves 8o and 10o are inclined at an angle θmo between 5° and 45° and at an angle θso between more than 0° and not more than 40°, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100139826A1 PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH ASYMMETRIC TREAD PATTERN Public/Granted day:2010-06-10
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