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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2020
Continental Reifen Deutschland Gmbh, Hannover, DE;
Andreas Härtwig, Hannover, DE;
Andreas Schwenke, Isernhagen, DE;
Florian Kristen, Burgwedel, DE;
Nico Meier, Hannover, DE;
Alexander Wüst, Seelze, DE;
Cord-Christian Neuber, Wunstorf, DE;
Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
A pneumatic vehicle tire, in particular utility vehicle tire, having a tread which has a directional profiling with shoulder-side and middle profile ribs running in a circumferential direction, wherein at least one of the middle profile ribs (), which is in particular a profile rib running along the tire equator, is traversed in an axial direction by sipes () with a width (b) of 0.5 mm to 1.2 mm, each of which has a central portion (), in which the sipe () runs with an undulation in the direction of extent thereof, and two lateral portions (). The sipes () extend, in plan view, in an arc shape and symmetrically with respect to the centerline of the profile rib (), and, in the lateral portions () and in the central portion (), have a uniform undulation running in the radial direction, on which the undulation present in the extent direction of the sipes () is superposed only in the central portion () of the sipe ().