The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Jean J Collette

Claude Lardo

Bernard Jonette

Pierre M Dauvister

Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron

Gia Van Nguyen

Frank Pierre Severens

Joël André Ghislain Delogne

Maurice Graas

Pascale De Briey-Terlinden

Alain Alphonse Klepper

Philippe Marie Manne

André Domange

Maurice Grass

A pneumatic tire tread has tread elements formed by circumferential and/or lateral grooves. At least one tread element has a sipe that devolves from a constant width sipe having a three dimensional aspect in at least a portion of the radially outer portion of the sipe to a wider width groove at the base of the tread feature.

Molding blade for pneumatic tire tread

Pneumatic tire tread having sipe that devolves into groove as tread wears

Both a mold blade for forming sipes and the sipe so formed in a tire tread element have three dimensional portions. In the formed sipe, the three dimensional portion creates a constant interlocking of the opposing sipe faces. The blade and the sipe have at least one row of alternating polygonal shaped recesses and protrusions. The recesses and protrusions terminate in a vertex; the vertex has a planar, or two-dimensional, configuration that is parallel to either-the blade centerline or the sipe centerline.

Three-dimensional sipes for treads

Tire

Design for a tire

A pneumatic tire (10) has a tread portion (11) comprising a plurality of circumferentially extending grooves (21,22,23) which divide the tread into axially spaced lands (24,25,26,27). Each land is subdivided into blocks (32X,32Y) by cross-slits (31). The blocks in each land (24,25,26,27) are arranged so that circumferentially adjacent blocks (32X,32Y) are axially offset relative to each other. The cross-slits (31A,31B,31C) in each land alternate circumferentially between axially extending cross-slits (31B) and biased angle cross-slits (31A,31C). The axially extending cross-slits (31B) are sipes and the biased angle cross-slits (31A,31C) may be either sipes or grooves.

Pneumatic tire

Pneumatic tire tread having sipes

A tire adapted to rotate around an axis and having an outer surface defining a circumferentially extending center line that defines a center plane perpendicular to the axis. The center plane divides the tire into first and second portions. The tire includes a first series of design cycles extending circumferentially around the tire in the first portion and a second series of design cycles extending circumferentially around a tire in the second portion. The total number of design cycles in the first and second portions are equal, and the sequences of the design cycles used in the first and second portions are different in order to spread the noise generated by the tire over a broad band of frequencies.

Asymmetrical tire pitching techniques

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Bastogne, Belgium

Jean J Collette