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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Yasushi Shinmura, Kobe, JP;
Hideaki Sugihara, Kobe, JP;
Inventors:
Yasushi Shinmura, Kobe, JP;
Hideaki Sugihara, Kobe, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Kobe-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 11/12 (2006.01); B60C 11/13 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A pneumatic tire which includes a tie bar in a lateral groove disposed in a block array, the tie bar connecting adjacent blocks in a circumferential direction through the lateral groove. The tie bar is formed with a sipeing having a zigzag portion, the zigzag portion extending in a zigzag manner in a direction of a groove centerline of the lateral groove. The sipeing is a three-dimensional sipeing in which a sipeing wall surface is repeatedly recessed and projected, three-dimensionally.