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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2009
Masahiro Ebiko, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Ebiko, Kanagawa, JP;
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a pneumatic tire which achieves both of excellent wet traction and wear resistance from an early stage to an advanced stage of wear. Multiple dent parts are formed, at certain intervals in a tire circumferential direction, in both side walls of each of at least two land portions of multiple land portions being formed in a tread surface and extending in the tire circumferential direction. Each of the dent parts has a smaller depth than main grooves that define the land portion where this dent part is formed. Multiple sipes are formed to traverse the land portion in a tire width direction between the right and left dent parts opposed to each other. Each of the sipes has a greater depth in both end regions opening to the dent parts than in a center region thereof.