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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;
Kazutaka Yokokawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand, FR;
Abstract
The tread has a contact face which is provided with a plurality of grooves opening to the contact face and a plurality of contact elements being delimited by the plurality of grooves. Each contact element has a top face constituting a part of the contact face and at least two incisions opening to the top face and extending radially inward of the contact elements. The incisions include at least one thin incision that is delimited via two opposed thin incision faces having a width tand at least one thick incision being delimited via two opposed thick incision faces having a width t. The width tis thicker than the width t. The at least one thick incision comprises at least one protrusion protruding from one of the thick incision face toward another thick incision face. The width tof the at least one thick incision is at least equal to 1.0 mm.