Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016288582-A1
Application number	US-201615052317-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 24, 2016
Priority date	Feb 27, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A pneumatic tire has inner mediate land portions and center land portion(s) that are divided into a plurality of blocks by lateral grooves. Each of the lateral grooves includes a pair of wide portions opening to a main groove and a narrow portion coupling the pair of the wide portions, one-side-closed sipes are formed in a bottom of each of the lateral grooves formed in the inner mediate land portions. The one-side-closed sipes are open at the wide portions and close at the narrow portion, a both-sides-open sipe is formed in a bottom of each of the lateral grooves formed in the center land portion or portions. The both-sides-open sipe is open at the wide portions and at the narrow portion.

First claim

1 . A pneumatic tire comprising:
a tread surface; six to eight of main grooves continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction in the tread surface; and a plurality of land portions divided by the main grooves, wherein provided in order from an exterior to an interior in a tire width direction there are shoulder land portions, shoulder main grooves, outer mediate land portions, mediate main grooves, inner mediate land portions, center main grooves, and center land portion or portions, there being two to four of the center main grooves, there being one to three of the center land portion or portions, and the center land portion or portions being arranged between respective pair or pairs of the center main grooves, wherein each of the inner mediate land portions and the center land portion or portions is divided into a plurality of blocks by lateral grooves, and each of the lateral grooves includes a pair of wide portions that have a relatively wider width and open to the main groove and a narrow portion that has a relatively narrower width and couples the pair of the wide portions, and wherein one-side-closed sipes that are open at the wide portions and close at the narrow portion are formed in a bottom of each of the lateral grooves formed in the inner mediate land portions, and a both-sides-open sipe that is open at the wide portions and at the narrow portion is formed in a bottom of each of the lateral grooves formed in the center land portion or portions.

2 . The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
the lateral grooves provided in the inner mediate land portions and the center land portion or portions each are bent at both ends of the narrow portion into a crank shape.

3 . The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a depth of the lateral groove is in a range of 10% to 60% of a depth of the main groove to which the wide portion is open, and depths of the one-side-closed sipe and the both-sides-open sipe from the bottom of the lateral groove each are in a range of 40% to 90% of a depth found by subtracting the depth of the lateral groove from the depth of the main groove.

4 . The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a depth of the both-sides-open sipe at the narrow portion is set to be smaller than a depth of the both-sides-open sipe at the wide portion.

5 . The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
the outer mediate land portions each are divided into a plurality of blocks by lateral grooves, and a wavy sipe is formed in a bottom of each of the lateral grooves.

6 . The pneumatic tire according to claim 1 , wherein
a plurality of shallow grooves that extend in the tire width direction and arranged at regular intervals in the tire circumferential direction are formed in the shoulder land portions, and a depth of the shallow groove is 10% or less of a depth of the shoulder main groove.

Assignees

• Toyo Tire & Rubber Co

Inventors

• Fujioka Tsuyoshi

Classifications

• B60C2011/0367

  characterised by depth · CPC title

• B60C2011/0341

  Circumferential grooves · CPC title

• B60C2011/0365

  characterised by width · CPC title

• B60C11/11

  in which the raised area of the pattern consists only of isolated elements, e.g. blocks (B60C11/12, B60C11/13 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60C11/0332

  by the footprint-ground contacting area of the tyre tread · CPC title