Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin

Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.a.

Héloïse Debordeaux

Olivier Muhlhoff

Arnaud Frappart

Mathieu Vandaele

Masayoshi Nomura

Tomohiro Seii

Jean-Claude Desvignes

Kazutaka Yokokawa

Serge Lefebvre

Damien Blouin

Vincent Ledieu

Quentin Bonneton

Amaury Guillemineau

Gerald Habert

Marie-Hélène Vantal

Alain Baptiste

Hélène Carentz

Tire sidewall

Tire

A tire made of rubbery material comprises tread () and two sidewalls () delimiting the tread, at least one of the sidewalls comprising at least one texture () that contrasts with the rest of the sidewall. The texture is divided into a plurality of adjacent patterns () of identical external shape. All or some of the patterns comprise a plurality of texture elements arranged to form in the pattern a plurality of rows that extend in the same direction of extension. For a given pattern of the texture, the rows of texture elements in each pattern adjacent to the given pattern have a direction of extension different from the direction of extension of the rows of texture elements of the given pattern. The lightness of the rest of the sidewall, which is not textured, is at least 5 units greater than the lightnesses of the patterns of the texture.

Tire provided with a texture on a sidewall

Surface design for a pneumatic tire

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

Héloïse Debordeaux