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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2013
Applicant:
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 13/00 (2006.01); B60C 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 13/02 (2013.01); B60C 13/002 (2013.04);
Abstract
In a tire, protrusions are disposed at intervals in the tire circumferential direction in at least one tire side portion, extending in an elongated manner from the inner side to the outer side in the tire radial direction including the maximum tire width position, the extension direction of each of the protrusions is inclined with respect to the tire radial direction, and the each of the protrusions adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction is disposed with the opposite orientation of the inclination with respect to the tire radial direction.