Abstract:
A tire for a motorized two wheeled vehicle comprising a reinforcing structure of the carcass type, made up of reinforcing elements, anchored on each side of the tire to a bead the base of which is intended to be mounted on a rim seat, each bead being extended radially outwards by a sidewall, the sidewalls radially towards the outside joining to a tread. The tread comprises at least one incision and in a circumferential plane, at least part of one wall of the at least one incision forms with the radial direction an angle of between 5 and 45°, and the angle formed between at least one part of one wall of the at least one incision and the radial direction in a first circumferential plane is different from the angle formed between at least one part of one wall of the at least one incision and the radial direction in at least one second circumferential plane.
Abstract:
In a pneumatic tire including a tread portion, side wall portions, and bead portions, a plurality of drainage grooves formed from circumferential grooves or width direction grooves is provided in the tread portion. The drainage grooves partition land portions. A plurality of loop-shaped narrow grooves formed so that a pivot angle from a starting point to a terminating point is not less than 90° and less than 360° is concentrically disposed in the land portions. At least one end of the narrow grooves is open to a common drainage groove.
Abstract:
A tire has a tread, with the tread having a plurality of ground engaging tread elements creating a tread surface and at least one of the elements has a sipe therein. In planes parallel to the tread surface, the configuration of a radially outer portion of the sipe is defined by a continuous non-linear curvature, the curvature having at least one radius R. The value of the radius R of the sipe curvature increases from the tread surface to a base of the sipe and the base of the sipe has a configuration defined by a radius R having a value of infinity.
Abstract:
The present invention includes tire treads having a plurality of lateral voids and methods of forming a tire tread having a plurality of lateral voids. The lateral voids of the tire treads each have a length extending primarily in the lateral direction of the tread, and where each of the plurality of lateral void features include a groove portion (18) and a sipe portion (26). Arranged at the bottom of each of the plurality of lateral void features is a submerged groove (28). Additionally or alternatively, each of the plurality of lateral void features include a groove bumper (32).
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire including a closed sipe in a land portion 3 formed in a tread surface, provided with at least three cuts extending in a radiation direction from an imaginary axis that extends in a depth direction of the land portion, and that terminate in the land portion. The cuts are provided with a spiral-like twist in the depth direction, centered on the imaginary axis, and a twist angle thereof is not less than 10° and not more than 135°. Additionally, a length in the radiation direction of the cuts or a width of the cuts is formed larger at a tread surface side than at a bottom surface side.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire has a tread that is provided with a plurality of blocks comparted in a tire circumferential direction by a lateral groove. A sipe formed in each of the blocks has a narrow portion that is open in a tread surface, and a wide portion that is communicated with an inner side in a tire diametrical direction of the narrow portion and is widened than the narrow portion. The wide portion gradually increases a widening length in one side in a width direction and gradually decreases a widening length in other side in the width direction, from one end portion of the sipe toward other end portion, and accompanies an angle change at a time of appearing on the tread surface due to a progress of a wear.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire. In a block 18 formed on a tread surface, a sipe 24 which is twisted at a predetermined angle from a surface portion 28 toward a bottom portion 30 is provided. Due to ground contact pressure exerted on a contact patch area 26, small blocks 18a to 18d rotate, so that adjacent small blocks abut each other with a strong force. As a result, leaning of the small blocks 18a to 18d is suppressed, and a contact patch area area on the contact patch area 26 increases, so that performance on ice and snow improves. Moreover, due to rotation of the small blocks 18a to 18d, a torque (SAT) for restoring the small block to an original shape is generated, so that SAT generated by steel cords can be suppressed.
Abstract:
A tire includes a circumferential tread having a tread element disposed thereon, wherein the tread element includes a top surface that defines a first plane. The tire further includes at least one substantially helicoid-shaped sipe disposed in the tread element. The substantially helicoid-shaped sipe is defined by an opening in the top surface extending in a first direction in the first plane when the tire is new, and is further defined by a base extending in a second direction in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The second direction is disposed at an angle between 45° and 135° with respect to the first direction.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire including a closed sipe in a land portion 3 formed in a tread surface, provided with at least three cuts extending in a radiation direction from an imaginary axis that extends in a depth direction of the land portion, and that terminate in the land portion. The cuts are provided with a spiral-like twist in the depth direction, centered on the imaginary axis, and a twist angle thereof is not less than 10° and not more than 135°. Additionally, a length in the radiation direction of the cuts or a width of the cuts is formed larger at a tread surface side than at a bottom surface side.
Abstract:
A pneumatic vehicle tire which has fine slits in the tread. These slits are inclined relative to the circumferential direction of the tire. In order to increase the frictional connection to the roadway, to make the wear of the tread more uniform, and in addition to be able to use mechanically stiff plates for the associated vulcanization molds, the fine slits are twisted about an at least approximately radially extending twist axis. The fine slits preferably extend continuously from their roots into the tread surface region proper.