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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1990
Susumu Watanabe, Hiratsuka, JP;
Kiyoshi Tomioka, Hiratsuka, JP;
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention relates to a pneumatic tire equipped on its tire tread surface with a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and transverse grooves extending from the center portion to shoulder portions while crossing the main grooves. The radius r of an approximate arc approximating to the ground contact front edge line of the tire tread surface has a relation r.ltoreq.2w with the ground contact width w, the direction of the main grooves has an angle within a range of .+-.10.degree. with respect to the normal of the approximate arc and the main grooves are disposed also in the shoulder portions outside 40 % from the center of the tire tread surface besides the center portion.