Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

The Ohtsu Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

Koichi Matsumoto

Hajime Yoshimura

Takahiro Yamamoto

Yoshio Ueno

Kouichi Uchibaba

Kenichi Sakai

A crawler belt for use on a crawler motor vehicle has an elongate belt body drivable in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of ridges mounted on a ground contact side of the belt body, each of the ridges having at least one sipe defined in a free end thereof for allowing the ridge to be flexibly deformable in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction. Each of the ridges has a plurality of sipes defined therein and extending longitudinally thereof or substantially perpendicularly to the predetermined direction. The ridges comprise a plurality of chevron-shaped ridges pointing toward the predetermined direction and succesively arranged at predetermined spaced intervals in the predetermined direction. The ridges are divided into a plurality of groups each including a plurality of ridges by grooves extending transversely of the belt body, and divided into a plurality of segments by at least one longitudinal groove extending longitudinally of the belt body.

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Matsubara, Japan

Koichi Matsumoto