Tire for a passenger vehicle, including a crown portion on its exterior with a tread, extended laterally by sidewalls terminating in beads to contact with rim parts (J) on which the tire is mounted, each sidewall including an inner wall and an outer wall, at least one of the sidewalls includes a plurality of first sectors and second sectors, formed on the outer wall of a first sidewall portion between the crown portion the axially outermost points when this tire is mounted inflated, wherein the first sectors are completely without raised markings, i.e. raised markings of a height greater than 0.2 mm, whereas the second sectors are provided with raised markings, these raised markings having a height equal to at least 0.2 mm, wherein the first sectors each form an angle equal to at least 20°, and wherein the sum of the angles of said first sectors is equal to at least 120°.
TIRE SIDEWALL MARKINGS REDUCING AERODYNAMIC DRAG
2015-10-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60C VEHICLE TYRES , Fahrzeugreifen |