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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yasutoshi Aoki, Kadaira, JP;
Yasutaka Enoki, Sayama, JP;
Assignee:
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1522 / ;
Abstract
A tread of a heavy-duty pneumatic radial tire comprises a pair of upper and lower rubber layers having mutually different moduli of elasticity and a small-width groove formed in the upper rubber layer in such manner as to be substantially continuous in a circumferential direction of the tire. The dimension between a boundary surface bordering the two rubber layers and a bottom of the groove is set to be 1 mm or more. Accordingly, the arrangement prevents the occurrence of cracks due to a deforming stress acting in the groove bottom occurring when the tire rolls or rides on a curbstone.