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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434606 | Pneumatic tire with tread having continuous ribs and block rows A tread surface 2 is divided by inner and outer longitudinal grooves 3a and 3b located on opposite sides of the tire equator into a central land portion 4i, intermediate land portions 4m and shoulder lan... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7416003 | Pneumatic tire with tread surface having specified direction of rotation A tread surface the tire rotational direction of which is specified in one direction has a center region and shoulder regions on both sides of the center region. Blocks are defined in at least one of the shoulder regions by at least one first circumferential groove ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7347238 | Pneumatic tire with tread including chamfer portions A pneumatic tire having improved wet performance without sacrificing steering stability. A pair of central circumferential main grooves 14 and a pair of side circumferential main grooves 16 are arranged on a tread 12, to obtain a fundamentally h... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337816 | Tire tread with circumferential and lateral grooves having asymmetrical cross-section A pneumatic tire for dirt track racing comprising lateral and circumferential grooves forming blocks on the tread surface. The blocks have leading and trailing edge walls. The trailing edge walls of the blocks are buttressed by inclining the walls at an angle of 20Â... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7322390 | Pneumatic tire having tread with blocks having obtuse angle corner portions A tread surface, the tire rotational direction of which is specified in one direction, has a center region. Blocks having obtuse-angled corner portions and acute-angled corner portions are defined in the center region by at least one first circumferential groove ext... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7270163 | Tyre for a vehicle wheel including specific tread patterns A tire for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass structure, a belt structure associated coaxially with the carcass structure, and a tread band extending coaxially around the belt structure. The tread band includes a relief pattern including at least one row of blocks s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270161 | Pneumatic tire for motorcycle To provide a pneumatic tire for a motorcycle in which both wear resistance and wet steering stability can be attained. Since a pair of zigzag circumferential direction grooves 28 are positioned at the center of a tread central region 24C and has an amp... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7246644 | Tyre for a vehicle wheel including specific tread patterns Winter tire for vehicle wheels, provided with a tread comprising three circumferential grooves and a plurality of transverse grooves which jointly delimit four circumferential rows of blocks, namely two axially outer shoulder rows and two center rows at the sides of... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7204281 | Studless tire with tread having circumferential portions, blocks and V shaped sipes A studless tire which is provided in the tread portion with one or more circumferential portions provided with V-shaped sipes, the total width of the one or more circumferential portions is in a range of from 10 to 25% of the tread width, each V-shaped sipe is compo... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7178570 | Pneumatic tire including main and auxiliary oblique grooves in axially inner region of tread A pneumatic tire is provided in the tread portion with circumferential grooves, main oblique grooves and auxiliary oblique grooves. The circumferential grooves include: a pair of axially outer grooves disposed one on each side of the tire equator; and at least one a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7163039 | High-performance tire for a motor vehicle A high-performance tire for a motor vehicle includes a carcass and tread band. The tire may be, for example, of the asymmetrical or directional type. The tread band includes a pattern including a central region, first and second shoulder regions, and first and secon... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7143798 | Pneumatic tire having tread with axially adjacent block chamfer and rib chamfer A tire tread for a pneumatic tire has a center rib and a series of steeply slanted grooves in each side region of the tread, the circumferentially adjacent grooves form blocks extending through the tread side regions. The center rib has a serrated configuration alon... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140411 | Pneumatic tire having inclined main grooves A pneumatic tire, wherein at least one peripheral main groove (2) is provided in a tread center area and inclined main grooves (3) inclined diagonal-outward in a direction reverse to the specified rotating direction of the tire and reverse inclined mai... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7131475 | High and medium performance tire for vehicles A tire for a wheel of a vehicle includes a casing structure, a belt structure, and a tread band. A tread band pattern includes a central zone, two intermediate zones, and two shoulder zones. Each of the zones extends between planes that are substantially parallel to... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7096904 | Off road tire having variable width puncture preventing pads This invention relates to off-road tires, more specifically off-road tires for use with all-terrain vehicles, agricultural equipment, and construction equipment. A plurality of elongated pads are interposed between circumferentially adjacent lugs, preventing damage ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093631 | Multipurpose tire for a motor vehicle The tread of a multipurpose tire includes a central region and first and second shoulder regions. Circumferential grooves separate the central and shoulder regions. The central region includes first and second rows of blocks. The first and second rows are arranged b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7077181 | Pneumatic tire including shoulder grooves A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with shoulder blocks in a row along each tread edge. The shoulder blocks are provided in a row divided by a circumferential groove and first shoulder grooves and second shoulder grooves. The first and second shoulde... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6983777 | Tire tread with multi-planar chamfers A tire has a tread on the outer circumferential surface. The tread has circumferential and lateral grooves defining tread blocks. In at least one tread block, one of the circumferentially extending sides of the block has a multi-planar chamfer. ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6971425 | Tire for high-performance vehicles and premoulded tread band having an asymmetrical pattern A tire for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, and a tread band. The tread band pattern includes a central zone and two axially-opposite shoulder zones. The central zone is delimited between axially-inner circumferential grooves and inclu... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968881 | Pneumatic tire including steeply slanted grooves, rib having sipes and blocks having sipes A tire tread for a pneumatic tire has a center rib and a series of steeply slanted grooves in each side region of the tread, the circumferentially adjacent grooves form blocks extending through the tread side regions. The center rib has a serrated configuration alon... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6935392 | Pneumatic tire including slant main grooves and sipes A pneumatic tire according to the present invention includes a tread surface having a tire rotation direction designated in one direction. The tread surface has a straight main groove extending in a circumferential direction of the tire in the center, and lateral gr... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929044 | All-terrain vehicle tire An All Terrain Vehicle Tire (10) for the drive axle positions has a tread (12) having three circumferentially continuous channels (61 62, 63). Two of the channels (62, 63) divide the elongated lugs (40, 42) into an axially inner po... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923231 | Tire including blocks and transverse notches A tire for vehicle wheels provided with a tread pattern includes at least one continuous central circumferential groove straddling an equatorial plane of the tire, at least two continuous lateral circumferential grooves having median planes substantially parallel to... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6907909 | Pneumatic tire including pseudo-land part A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion having a plurality of slant grooves, in which each slant groove has a steeply slant groove portion and a gently slant groove portion, and the steeply slant groove portion comprises a pseudo-land part of a given shape, and c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6892775 | Pneumatic radial tire for all-season passenger car A pneumatic radial tire for all-season passenger car comprises a tread with a tread block pattern defined by plural slant grooves and at least one circumferential center groove and consisting of a central zone having a width corresponding to 30-60% of a tread width ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6837285 | Pattern blocks in the tread of a tire The invention relates to pattern blocks in the tread of a vehicle tire, the tread comprising the tread layer (20) on the tire carcass (25) and on that pattern blocks (1) separated from each other by wider grooves (21). At least part of th... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6834695 | Pneumatic tire including sipes A pneumatic tire in which a sipe, which is substantially parallel to a contour line of a trailing edge of a ground-contact configuration, is formed in a trailing edge region of each block at shoulder sides of the pneumatic tire. From a time of step-in to a time of k... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6823911 | Pneumatic tire including pseudo-land portion formed in circumferential groove There is provided a pneumatic tire, particularly a high-performance tire capable of effectively enhancing a drainage property without sacrificing the other tire properties, wherein a pseudo-land portion (11) promoting a smooth inflow of water flowing in circu... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6799616 | Pneumatic tire including auxiliary land part having slope In a pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion divided into a central region and both side regions, at least one rib-shaped main land part is formed in the central region and a plurality of main slant grooves are arranged so as to extend obliquely from the central r... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6776204 | Tire having a pattern with no intercommunicating paths between the grooves A tire for vehicle wheels includes a tread band having a tread pattern defined between two shoulder ends of the tire. The tread pattern includes two lateral rows of grooves and at least one third row of grooves arranged between the lateral rows. All of the grooves a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6761197 | Tire and tread thereof A tyre for vehicles includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, and a tread. The tread includes a row of central blocks and a row of intermediate blocks arranged on each side of an equatorial plane of the tyre between a central longitudinal groove formed astride... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6705366 | Pneumatic tire including headland part A pneumatic tire having a directional tread pattern of a designated rotating direction comprises at least one circumferential main groove at a central region of a tread portion, a circumferential sub-groove at each of side regions of the tread portion, a plurality o... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6691753 | Pneumatic tire including circumferential grooves and slanting grooves A pneumatic tire for motor vehicles has a running surface profile designed in the direction of rotation, with two shoulder regions (S1, S2) each being a constituent of a row of shoulder blocks, and with a middle region (C) separated ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6659146 | Motor vehicle tire with a tread profile for a superior grip on snow and ice In a motor vehicle tire (1) for driving conditions as they occur during the winter months, parallel incisions are provided with staggers that are placed such that a smaller distance between adjacent incisions arises in the central region of the pad than i... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6656300 | High performance tire for vehicles A very high performance tire (1, 101) for vehicles comprises a tread (14) provided with a plurality of transversal grooves (15) circumferentially distributed along the tread (14) in groups alternately extending from opposite shoulder zones (F, G) of the t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6626215 | Pneumatic tire including long and narrow blocks with at least two sipes A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion provided with oblique grooves to define narrow and circumferentially long blocks therebetween, the oblique grooves inclined at angles θ of not more than 60 degrees with respect to the circumferential direction ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6604564 | Tread pattern motif for a tread A tire tread having grooves of transverse general orientation defining a plurality of blocks arranged so as to form a tread pattern having a preferred direction of travel, the blocks having a contact face, two lateral faces, a leading face forming an angl... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6601624 | Tread groove noise diffusers A tire tread comprises an intermediate portion disposed between two shoulder portions. The tire tread has an expanded void area with a width and length of 1.2 to 5 times the average width of a non-circumferential groove in the tread. In the illustrated em... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6595255 | Pneumatic tire including three circumferential grooves In a pneumatic tire of the present invention, a pair of circumferential main grooves with a tire equatorial plane interposed therebetween, and another pair of circumferential main grooves at a tire axial direction outer side and inner side of the former p... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6568444 | Pneumatic radial tire having small negative ratio and small tread ground contacting width to rim width A pneumatic radial tire having excellent steering stability, resistance to hydroplaning and noise reduction comprises a carcass, a belt and a tread portion provided with a plurality of tread grooves and having an aspect ratio of not more than 50%, in whic... | 05/27/2003 |
