Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Kenta Yagi

Luis Angel Gonzalez

Kotaro Tahara

Hiroyuki Ishino

Saki Arakawa

Tire for automobile

A tire has a tread portion comprising a first land region divided by a circumferential groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction. The first land region is provided with first lateral grooves extending thereacross to circumferentially divide the first land region into blocks. The blocks include a first block provided with a second lateral groove and sipes. The second lateral groove has two end portions which are inclined with respect to the tire axial direction to a first direction toward one side in the tire axial direction, and a central portion between the two end portions which is inclined with respect to the tire axial direction to a second direction opposite to the first direction toward the above-said one side in the tire axial direction.

Tire

A tire comprises a tread portion. The tread portioncomprises a plurality of oblique groovesextending obliquely from a first tread edge Tepositioned on one side in a tire axial direction toward a tire equator C, and a plurality of oblique land regionseach defined between a pair of the oblique groovesadjacent to each other in a tire circumferential direction. Each of the oblique land regionsis provided with a plurality of joint grooveseach connecting between the pair of the oblique grooves

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