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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2014
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Claude Schweitzer, Colmar-Berg, LU;
Thomas Gesenhoff, Trier, DE;
Jean-Louis Marie Félicien Thomas, Waltzing, BE;
Hans Leo Bert Geluykens, Attert, BE;
Phaniraj Muthigi, Copley, OH (US);
Jacques Camille Marie Nevouet, Steinsel, LU;
Germain Dehez, Gouvy, BE;
Hubert Anna Johanes Cox, Eschdorf, LU;
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a tire comprising a tread comprising: a plurality of circumferential grooves separating circumferential ribs, each groove comprising a bottom and two sidewalls; one or more groove reinforcements, each groove reinforcement laterally spaced from any other of said one or more groove reinforcements; wherein each groove reinforcement is arranged adjacent one circumferential groove; wherein at least one circumferential groove has no groove reinforcement adjacent to it; and wherein each groove reinforcement extends from the radially inner surface of the tread in a radially outward direction at least to the bottom of the adjacent circumferential groove to form at least part of the bottom of that groove.