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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:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tomoyuki Matsumura, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 1/111 ; B60C 1/112 ; B60C / ; B60C / ; B60C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 1/111 ; B60C 1/112 ; B60C / ; B60C / ; B60C / ;
Abstract
A pneumatic radial tire, wherein five main grooves extending in the circumferential direction of a tire are provided on a tread to divide into and form land portions of six rows, each land portion is divided into block rows constituted by a plurality of blocks by means of a plurality of subgrooves extending in the direction of width of the tire, and an area ratio of the blocks is set at a relationship of 1:0.9 to 1.1:1.8 to 2.2 from the block row of the shoulder side to the block row of the center side, in a region between ends of a belt layer having a maximum width embedded in said tread.