Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Saki Arakawa

Kotaro Tahara

Hiroshi Yamaoka

Kenta Yagi

Hiroyuki Ishino

Takafumi Noguchi

A tire comprises a tread portion having outboard and inboard tread edges and provided with three main grooves to axially divide the tread portion into four land regions including a widest outboard middle land region, wherein first inclined grooves () extend across the entire width of the outboard middle land region; second inclined grooves () extend from a crown main groove and are terminated within the outboard middle land region; fourth inclined grooves () are connected to the second inclined grooves () and to the first inclined grooves on an outboard shoulder main groove side; and an angle of the first inclined groove () and an angle of the second inclined groove () with respect to the tire circumferential direction are gradually increases from the crown main groove toward the outboard tread edge.

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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Saki Arakawa