The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Florian Roth

Philipp Weber

Frederic Ngo

Roman Goerl

Bastian Andreas Grauel

Selcuk Ata

Thomas Michael Hirsch

Matthias Milse

Sameer Gupta

Viktor Pranas Vogel

Kalicharan Gurunathan

Pierre Marc Ghislain Jadin

Raphael Alexander Prohl

Moritz Bruckner

Suphaphan Atsawasuwan

Rebecca Anne Bandy

A tire including a tread wear indicator is provided. The tire includes a pair of sidewalls, in which each sidewall extends from a respective bead area to a tread. The tread includes a plurality of main circumferential grooves, in which the main circumferential grooves are disposed in and proximate an axial center area of the tread. At least one shallow groove is formed in the tread, and each shallow groove includes a depth relative to the surface of the tread that is less than a depth of each of the main circumferential grooves. A primary tread wear indicator is disposed in at least one of the main circumferential grooves, and a secondary tread wear indicator is disposed in the shallow groove.

Tire with shallow groove-based tread wear indicator

Tire

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Buedingen, Germany

Florian Roth