The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Noboru Kuwahara

Mizuki Kuninaka

Yosuke Sakamoto

Masataka Kubota

Hiroki Endo

Katsuyoshi Sekine

Yuji Kodama

Hiraku Kouda

Masatoshi Kuriyama

Takahisa Murata

Yousuke Sakamoto

Kakeru Yatabe

Automobile tire

In a pneumatic tire, an inner shoulder land portion includes shoulder lug grooves that extend in the tire lateral direction. Additionally, an inner second land portion includes the through lug groove that extends through the inner second land portion in the tire lateral direction. A center land portion includes a single circumferential narrow groove extending in the tire circumferential direction and center lug grooves that each open at one end portion to the edge portion on the vehicle width direction inner side of the center land portion and terminate at the other end portion, communicating with a circumferential narrow groove. The shoulder lug groove, the through lug groove, and the center lug groove form one communication lug groove extending continuously from a tire ground contact edge toward a tire equatorial plane.

Pneumatic tire

To provide a pneumatic tire that provides improved driving performance on unpaved roads and cut resistance. High blocks and low blocks with different raised heights are provided as side blocks provided in a side region. One of the high blocks and one of the low blocks adjacent to each other in a tire circumferential direction are defined as a block pair. The high block and the low block included in the block pair are partially in contact with each other. Thus, a side groove between these blocks is a closed groove. In each block pair, a pair of contour lines (a first linear portion, a second linear portion, and a third linear portion) define edges on both sides, in the tire circumferential direction, of a top surface of each of the high block and the low block.

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Noboru Kuwahara