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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2016
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Soichi Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
TOYO TIRE CORPORATION, Itami-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
An inner end () of a slit () provided in a shoulder rib () in a tire width direction is terminated within the shoulder rib (). The shoulder rib () includes a slit region () that has the slit () and a rib region () that has not the slit (). The shoulder rib () protrudes to the outside of a tire reference profile line L on a cross-section in the tire width direction and has a protrusion peak () in the rib region (). A ground contact surface of the shoulder rib () draw, on a cross-section in the tire width direction, an arch (M) passing through a ground contact end (), the protrusion peak (), and a point () on an inner sidewall of a shoulder-side main groove () in the tire width direction. The arch (M) passes through a point () on the tire reference profile line (L) or outside the tire reference profile line (L) in a normal direction of the tire reference profile line (L) at an inner end of the shoulder rib () in the tire width direction.