A pneumatic tire including: a circumferential groove that extends in a tire circumferential direction and that partitions a contact patch a protrusion that protrudes from a base of the circumferential groove and that interconnects two groove sidewalls at either side in a groove width direction of the protrusion; and a pair of mutually facing slits that are formed at the groove sidewalls of the circumferential groove. The slits do not extend as far as the contact patch, being closed at interiors of the groove sidewalls; and a length in a groove long direction of the slits is not less than a length in the groove long direction of the protrusion.
PNEUMATIC TIRE AND TIRE VULCANIZING MOLD
2019-03-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English