Continental Aktiengesellschaft

Continental Gummi-werke Aktiengesellschaft

Siegfried Praetorius

Dieter Rohde

Wolfgang Spitz

Klaus-Heiner Hartmann

Jobst Meyer-Adlung

A unidirectional pneumatic vehicle tire has a symmetric radial carcass and a symmetric package of belt plies placed on the carcass. The tire tread of an asymmetric tread design has at least three longitudinal grooves having a depth of 12 mm to 18 mm. The tire tread has an axially outer wide tread rib, positioned, when mounted on a vehicle, so as to face outwardly relative to the vehicle. The wide tread rib has a width of 25% to 40% of the width of the tire tread when measured at half the depth of an axially outer one of the longitudinal grooves positioned adjacent to the wide tread rib. The wide tread rib is free of any tread voids having a main direction of extension and is selected from the group consisting of longitudinal grooves, longitudinal sipes, transverse grooves, transverse sipes, diagonal grooves, and diagonal sipes. The wide tread rib has tread voids having in a top view of the tire tread a substantially round contour. The tread voids are arranged in 1 to 4 tracks in a circumferential direction of the tire tread, wherein each one of the tracks comprises 100 to 150 of the tread voids.

Pneumatic vehicle tire with a symmetrical carcass, symmetrical belt

A belted tire having a respective step at each of the edges of the tread strip, with the edges of the belt extending to below the approximately horizontal surface of the step. In order to avoid undesirable heat formation, and hence to reduce the rolling resistance, a low-dampening rubber layer is disposed between two belt piles, with the rubber layer ending prior to the edges of the belt. In these regions, as extensions of the intermediate layer, respective additional rubber strips are provided. Half of the width of a given rubber strip is disposed below the belt plies, and the other half of the width of that strip extends laterally beyond the belt. These rubber strips are harder than the low-damping intermediate layer.

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Barsinghausen, Germany

Siegfried Praetorius