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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Bridgestone Corporation, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Emiliano Sabetti, Rome, IT;
Assignee:
BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 11/00 (2006.01); B60C 11/01 (2006.01); B60C 11/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 11/0083 (2013.04); B60C 11/0304 (2013.04); B60C 11/0332 (2013.04); B60C 2011/013 (2013.04);
Abstract
A tire tread band having a center, two shoulders on either side of the center, and two edges on either side of the shoulders and forming a transition with the sidewalls. The profile of the tread band has at least a first arc forming part of the center, two second arcs forming part of the shoulders, and two third arcs forming part of the edges; and, at one junction, each second arc is connected discontinuously to the first arc by a step, wherein the second arc is not tangent to, and is radially lower than, the first arc.