Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Naoya Suzuki

Masahiro Yao

A tire has a sidewall portion provided with a protrusion which includes a radially outer design portion, a mark portion and a radially inner design portion. The radially outer design portion has a radially inward contour portion comprising radially inward peak points protruding radially inward. The radially inner design portion is spaced apart from the mark portion in the tire circumferential direction. The radially inner design portion includes a radially outward contour portion having radially outward peak points protruding outward in the tire radial direction. Each of the radially inward peak points is provided at a different position in the tire radial direction than each of the radially outward peak points.

Tire

A tire has a first sidewall portion having a reference surface and provided with a raised part. The raised part has a top surface having a second color. The tread portion is provided with shoulder lateral grooves and shoulder blocks The shoulder block has a first block wall surface inclined to the axially outer side toward the radially inner side from a first tread edge The radially inner edge of the first block wall surface is separated from the bottom surface of the shoulder lateral groove by at least 3 mm, and located axially inside a tire radial direction line passing through a position corresponding to the midpoint of the protruding height of the raised part.

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Kobe, Japan

Naoya Suzuki