Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pneumatic tire
- Patent Title (中): 气动轮胎
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Application No.: US12295411Application Date: 2007-04-02
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Publication No.: US08151842B2Publication Date: 2012-04-10
- Inventor: Fumio Takahashi , Seiji Ishikawa
- Applicant: Fumio Takahashi , Seiji Ishikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
- Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2006-096510 20060331; JP2006-097866 20060331; JP2006-098306 20060331; JP2006-099339 20060331
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/057415 WO 20070402
- International Announcement: WO2007/114430 WO 20071011
- Main IPC: B60C11/117
- IPC: B60C11/117 ; B60C11/12

Abstract:
A pneumatic tire is provided which has sufficient total properties and mass productivity of a tire without reducing drainage capability due to narrowed circumferential grooves, achieves high design flexibility of tread patterns and stiffness of land portion as intended, and also effectively reduces undesired air column resonance noise produced by the circumferential grooves. The pneumatic tire includes a circumferential groove 3 which continuously and circumferentially extends in a straight line and arranged on a tread 1, and resonators 5 which are open to the circumferential groove 3 and terminate in a land portion 4, each of the resonators 5 being configured with an air chamber 6 open toward a land portion surface, and a narrowed neck 7 for communication between the air chamber 6 and the circumferential groove 3, and the narrowed neck 7 has the plane maximum width w0 which is within a range of from 3 to 50% of the plane maximum width w1 of the air chamber 6.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090165908A1 PNEUMATIC TIRE Public/Granted day:2009-07-02
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