Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Motorcycle tire
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Application No.: US14477203Application Date: 2014-09-04
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Publication No.: US09937755B2Publication Date: 2018-04-10
- Inventor: Mamoru Nakagawa
- Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
- Current Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2013-195896 20130920
- Main IPC: B60C11/03
- IPC: B60C11/03

Abstract:
A motorcycle tire including a tire structure having a tread having outer surface curved in arc shape such that the outer surface is protruding toward radially outer side of the structure. The tread includes a center region and shoulder regions on sides of the center region, respectively, the center region is spanning 30% of a developed tread width with tire equator at the center of the center region, the tread has main grooves positioned at interval in tire circumferential direction and shoulder sub-grooves positioned in each shoulder region, each main groove is formed in V shape such that the V shape has a pair of inclined portions respectively extending from the tip in the center region toward the shoulder regions in tire rotation direction, and the sub-grooves are formed such that each sub-groove is extending in the circumferential direction and connected to one inclined portion without connecting adjacent main grooves.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150083294A1 MOTORCYCLE TIRE Public/Granted day:2015-03-26
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