Patent ID: 9487053
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: B60C

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle tire defining a tire circumference and a circumferential direction, the vehicle tire comprising: a profiled tread; a first and a second side wall rubber strip, one on each axial side of the profiled tread, each side wall strip having a side wall surface forming part of the outer surface of the tire; at least one of said first and said second side wall strips having a groove extending over the entirety of the tire circumference on the outer surface of the tire; said groove having a repeating pattern formed therein over the entirety of the tire circumference; said groove having first and second groove segments each being oriented in the circumferential direction and being arranged in an alternating sequence in the circumferential direction; said first and second groove segments being arranged one behind the other in the alternating sequence in the circumferential direction; said at least one of said first and second side wall strips further having an outer delimiting flank delimiting said first and second groove segments radially outwardly and an inner delimiting flank delimiting said first and second groove segments radially inwardly; said first groove segments being arranged radially outside of said second groove segments so as to define respective first transitions from said first groove segments to adjacent ones of said second groove segments configured as first radial offsets of said groove by an offset dimension a radially inwardly and to define respective second transitions from said second groove segments to adjacent ones of said first groove segments configured as second radial offsets of said groove by an offset dimension a radially outwardly; said first groove segments each having a maximum width B said second groove segments each having a maximum width B said first groove segments each being configured to have said maximum width B said second groove segments being configured to have said maximum width B said first groove segments extend over a circumferential angle α lying in a range of 10°≦α≦50° measured along said outer delimiting flank; and, said second groove segments extend over a circumferential angle β lying in a range of 10°≦β≦50° measured along said outer delimiting flank.