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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
May. 21, 2020
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Kobe, JP;
Saki Arakawa, Kobe, JP;
Hiroshi Yamaoka, Kobe, JP;
Kotaro Tahara, Kobe, JP;
Takafumi Noguchi, Kobe, JP;
SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe, JP;
Abstract
A tire comprises a tread portion having outboard and inboard tread edges and provided with three main grooves to axially divide the tread portion into four land regions including a widest outboard middle land region, wherein first inclined grooves () extend across the entire width of the outboard middle land region; second inclined grooves () extend from a crown main groove and are terminated within the outboard middle land region; fourth inclined grooves () are connected to the second inclined grooves () and to the first inclined grooves on an outboard shoulder main groove side; and an angle of the first inclined groove () and an angle of the second inclined groove () with respect to the tire circumferential direction are gradually increases from the crown main groove toward the outboard tread edge.