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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2016
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Richard Mark Wieland, Akron, OH (US);
Michael Stefan Skurich, North Canton, OH (US);
Michael Geno Cicchiani, Macedonia, OH (US);
Dale Edward Umstot, Atwater, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A pneumatic tire has a radially outer tread. The tread has a plurality of circumferential grooves, a plurality of lateral grooves, and a plurality of shoulder grooves. The tread includes bottoms and sides of each circumferential groove being textured for improving snow traction, each circumferential groove being textured with flat-topped pyramids, bottoms and sides of each lateral groove being textured for improving snow traction; and bottoms and sides of each shoulder groove being textured for improving snow traction.