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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2016
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Kurata, Tokyo, JP;
BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Taking a groove side-wall to a position at ½ a groove depth from a tread face of lug groove as a tread-in side first inclined portion, and taking a groove side-wall from the position at ½ groove depth to a groove bottom as a tread-in side second inclined portion, then the following Ais set less than the following B. When viewed in cross-section orthogonal to a length direction of the lug groove: Ais an area of a region enclosed by an imaginary line passing through an end portion on a tread face side of the tread-in side first inclined portion and perpendicular to the tread face, by an imaginary line passing through an end portion on a groove bottom side of the tread-in side first inclined portion and orthogonal to the imaginary line, and by the tread-in side first inclined portion; and Bis an area of a region enclosed by an imaginary line passing through an end portion on a tread face side of the tread-in side second inclined portion and perpendicular to the tread face, by an imaginary line passing through the deepest portion of the lug groove and parallel to the tread face, and by the tread-in side second inclined portion.