Patent ID: 7954527

Claim:
A pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern on which a plurality of blocks are formed with circumferential grooves which extend along a circumferential direction of the tire and lateral grooves which traverse the circumferential grooves, wherein each of the lateral grooves disposed between the blocks on the endmost tread edge region has a depth from 10 to 50% of a depth of the circumferential groove traversed and has a groove bottom concave portion whose both closed ends in a longitudinal direction are disposed inside the groove bottom, and a width of the groove bottom concave portion, which is determined on the basis of the bottom plane of the groove bottom, is from 25 to 45% of a groove width of the lateral grooves, wherein the grooves in the circumferential direction of the tire are composed of three circumferential grooves, the lateral grooves disposed between these circumferential grooves have a depth from 40 to 70% of a depth of the circumferential grooves and have a groove bottom sipe on the groove bottom of the lateral grooves, and both ends of the groove bottom sipe are open.