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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Applicant:
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Sandy, UT (US);
Inventors:
Masataka Kubota, Hiratsuka, JP;
Masatoshi Kuwajima, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60B 19/10 (2006.01); B60B 3/00 (2006.01); B60C 13/02 (2006.01); B60B 7/00 (2006.01); B60B 1/06 (2006.01); B60C 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60B 3/002 (2013.01); B60B 1/06 (2013.01); B60B 7/0066 (2013.01); B60B 7/0086 (2013.01); B60C 13/02 (2013.01); B60B 7/0073 (2013.01); B60C 3/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tire/wheel assembly includes a wheel having an attaching portion for attaching the wheel to a vehicle and a pneumatic tire that is fit on a periphery of the wheel. The pneumatic tire includes a plurality of tire protrusions and/or a plurality of tire recesses of a tire side portion that constitutes a vehicle outer side, and the wheel includes a plurality of wheel recesses in a surface that constitutes the vehicle outer side.