Abstract:
To provide a pneumatic tire capable of improving resistance to stone drilling while ensuring snow traction performance, protrusions are arranged at intervals in a groove, each of the protrusions being lower than a height of a block and being separated from the block. The protrusion includes a protrusion main portion having a top portion, and a sloped portion having a slope of which angle with a groove bottom is formed in a range from 3 to 60°. The sloped portion is formed at positions in two directions which are mutually opposite to each other at least along the groove. Consequently, a stone trapped within the groove moves up to the top portion along the slope, and is ejected from the groove. Since the protrusions are arranged separately from the block and are arranged at intervals, the capacity of the groove is ensured. Thus, the resistance to stone drilling can be improved while the snow traction performance is ensured.
Abstract:
A groove bottom of a circumferential groove formed in a tread surface is provided with a protruding stripe extending along a next ending direction of the circumferential groove. The protruding stripe is provided with a top head portion protruding toward a tire outer circumferential side, and a base portion which is narrower than the top head portion and connects the top head portion and the groove bottom. If a small stone is pinched, the top head portion is inclined around the base portion, and the protruding stripe is deflected as a whole, thereby generating a reaction force on the basis of a deformation restoring force.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire has a tread designed primarily for off-road activities, comprising large lugs. The tread can be defined as having a central tread width that is divided into a central tread zone and opposing lateral tread zones. The tire also has shoulder regions extending from each lateral tread zone. The tread itself has a plurality of tread elements separated by lateral grooves in the lateral tread zones. The lateral grooves in the lateral tread zones are protected by elongated pads, the pads extending from between a pair of the tread elements and into a shoulder region of the tire. Each pad has a radial height less than the adjacent tread elements and has a base width greater than 50% of the width of the lateral grooves.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a heavy load pneumatic tire capable of effectively preventing a river wear from generating while preventing a crack or a stone-biting from generating in a sipeing end. In a heavy load pneumatic tire in which a tread portion has a rib pattern formed with ribs divided by main grooves which are continuous in a circumferential direction of the tire, at least one of the main grooves that is located on the outermost side in a widthwise direction of the tire is provided at its groove bottom with a projecting stripe which is continuous in the circumferential direction of the tire, and the ribs adjacent to an inner side of the main groove are provided with closed sipeings arranged at substantially constant distances from each other.
Abstract:
A vehicle wheel tire includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, and a tread. The tread includes four circumferential grooves and a plurality of transverse grooves that define at least five circumferential rows of blocks, each block approximating a polygon. The longitudinal sides of the blocks are inclined in the same direction at a predetermined angle to the equatorial plane of the tire. The blocks of each row are circumferentially staggered relative to the blocks of the next row. The blocks of the central row include stiffening means. Profiles of the front sides of the blocks of the central row are the same as the profiles of the rear of the blocks of the central row rotated through 180null. The blocks of the shoulder rows are elastically linked to the blocks of the intermediate rows.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire having a block type tread pattern improved in stone trapping, which comprises the tread portion provided with a mesh of grooves to define blocks, each block surrounded by at least one projection standing out from the groove bottom leaving spaces from the groove walls, the projection comprising alternate wide main portions and narrow coupler portions, the height of the wide main portions being in the range of from 10 to 25% of the groove depth, the height of the narrow coupler portions being not less than 5% but less than 10% of the groove depth, the length of each of the wide main portions being in the range of from 3 mm to 10 mm, the length of each of the narrow coupler portions being in the range of from 2 mm to 5 mm, and the width of the narrow coupler portions being in the range of from 1 mm to 2 mm.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with tread grooves each having a bottom and sidewalls, the tread grooves provided with ejectors for preventing stone trapping. The ejectors protrude from the groove bottom independently of the sidewalls, the ejectors having a substantially triangular shape. The tread grooves comprise a main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction, and the triangular ejectors are disposed in wide portions of the main groove. The wide portion has sidewalls flaring toward the center line of the main groove, and the triangular ejector disposed therein has two sides substantially parallel to the flaring sidewalls, respectively. The main groove is further provided with a continuous ejector extending along the length of the main groove, or a series of independent rectangular ejectors arranged along the length of the main groove at intervals.