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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2017
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Shiraishi, Hiratsuka, JP;
Hiraku Kouda, Hiratsuka, JP;
Tatsuro Shinzawa, Hiratsuka, JP;
Takanori Uemura, Hiratsuka, JP;
The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction in a tread portion; and a sipe extending in a tire width direction in a rib defined by the plurality of main grooves, the sipe including a leading side edge and a trailing side edge, a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe being formed in each of the leading side edge and the trailing side edge, a non-chamfered region including no other chamfered portion being present in a part facing each chamfered portion of the sipe, and, in a plan view of the tread portion, at least one of the chamfered portions including an outer edge profile line not parallel to a ridge line of the sipe.