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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2016
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Masafumi Otani, Kobe, JP;
Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Akron, OH (US);
Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte, Akron, OH (US);
Julien Michel Sylvain Seguy, Akron, OH (US);
Jean-Luc Faure, Akron, OH (US);
Auguste Elichiry, Akron, OH (US);
SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe-Shi, Hyogo, JP;
THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A pneumatic motorcycle tireis provided with a tread pattern having an intended tire rotational direction N. The tread portionis provided on each side of the tire equator C with a unit patternrepeatedly arranged in the tire circumferential direction to form the tread pattern. The unit patterncomprises: a first oblique grooveextending axially outwardly from a vicinity of the tire equator C and obliquely, while inclining to the rotational direction N; a second oblique groovedisposed on the toe-side in the rotational direction N of the first oblique grooveand extending therealong; and a narrow oblique grooveextending axially outwardly from the axially inner end of the first oblique grooveto the axially inner end of the second oblique groove, while inclining to the opposite direction to the rotational direction N.