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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2002
Tetsuya Kuze, Hiratsuka, JP;
Tetsuya Kuze, Hiratsuka, JP;
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a pneumatic tire provided with multiple blockson a tread. A sipeprovided on the blockis formed by shifting pitches of a zigzag shapeon a tread faceside of the sipe and a zigzag shapeon a bottom side thereof in the width direction of the tire, and by connecting concave and convex flexion points a, a', b and b′ on the both of the zigzag shapes with edge lines xxand xThe blockis sectioned by the sipeinto a concavo-convex face A in which convex triangular pyramids Aa and convex reverse triangular pyramids Ab are alternately arranged, and a concavo-convex face B in which concave triangular pyramids Ba and concave reverse triangular pyramids Bb are alternately arranged. The concavo-convex faces A sectioned by the sipes are at least disposed in both outermost positions in the circumferential direction of the block in a manner that the concavo-convex faces A are oriented outward from the block.