Patent ID: 8522845
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B60C

Abstract:
1. A pneumatic tire which includes four main grooves each extending in a tire circumferential direction in its tread part, and in which the four main grooves partition the tread part into: a center land part; paired intermediate land parts located with the center land part being interposed in between; and paired shoulder land parts located with the center land part and the paired intermediate land parts being interposed in between, wherein each of the intermediate land parts and the shoulder land parts includes a plurality of V-shaped grooves each configured of: a thick groove part extending in a tire width direction; and a thin groove part extending in the tire circumferential direction, the V-shaped grooves are arranged in a way that each paired V-shaped grooves are opposed to each other in the tire circumferential direction with a connecting groove part being interposed between vertices of the respective paired V-shaped grooves, each thick groove part communicates with any one of the main grooves and the outside of a ground contacting area depending on which land part the thick groove part belongs to, each of the thick grove parts of the paired V-shaped grooves, and the thick grooved parts in the intermediate land parts and adjacent shoulder land parts, are not co-linear with each other, each thin groove part terminates within the land part to which the thin groove part belongs.