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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2014
Applicants:

Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;

Michelin Recherche ET Technique, S.a., Granges-Paccot, CH;

Inventors:

Matthieu Bonnamour, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;

Benoit Durand-Gasselin, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;

Serge Lefebvre, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;

Mathieu Vandaele, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;

Kazutaka Yokokawa, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 11/12 (2006.01); B60C 11/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 11/1204 (2013.01); B60C 11/033 (2013.01); B60C 11/0332 (2013.01); B60C 11/12 (2013.01); B60C 11/1236 (2013.01); B60C 11/1281 (2013.01); B60C 2011/0334 (2013.01); B60C 2011/1209 (2013.01); B60C 2011/129 (2013.01); B60C 2011/1213 (2013.01); B60C 2011/1227 (2013.01);
Abstract

The aspects disclosed herein relate to a tread for a tire including at least one block of rubbery material of width W and length L with L»W. This block extends in a circumferential direction (X) when the tread is mounted on the tire, the block including a contact surface intended to come into contact with the ground and a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall delimiting this contact surface. The block further includes a plurality of sipes opening onto the contact surface of the block, with each sipe extending over the contact surface in an oblique direction opening onto the first lateral wall and onto the second lateral wall, the sipes of the block being oriented in the same direction. The sipes are distributed over the contact surface of the block in such a way that when one sipe reaches the second lateral wall another sipe starts out from the first lateral wall at the same circumferential level (N) on the block, and each sipe includes at least two parts.


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