Automobile tires, especially pneumatic ones, with a running profile having profile ribs (1,2,3,4,5) and/or profile blocks several of which are arranged behind each other with transverse slots (TS) at an angle to the horizontal plane (12, 13, 14, 15, 16) wh...

To provide a pneumatic tire capable of improving wet performance without sacrificing steering stability. Since a pair of central circumferential main grooves 14 and a pair of side circumferential main grooves 16 are arranged on a tread 12, a fundamentally ...

A tire tread for a pneumatic tire has at least one circumferentially extending rib (10). The rib (10) has a high siping density to provide flexibility to the rib. To provide support to the rib (10), circumferentially extending along, and attached to, the s...

The tire tread profile (1), for a vehicle pneumatic tire, has profile blocks (19,20) where each has a straight edge (22,23) defining the peripheral grooves (2-4). The profile blocks (19) in one row (13) have a corner (24) with an included angle (alpha ) an...

A central vertical groove 3 extends on a tire equator C, and rib portions 6a and 6b having sipes S are formed on the opposite sides of the central vertical groove 3. In a groove edge line 3E of said central vertical groove 3, reference pitches P each compr...

A pneumatic tire is provided in the tread portion with a circumferential row (Rm) of middle tread elements (6), wherein each of the middle tread elements (6) is divided into four elemental blocks (6A1,6A2,6B1,6B2) having different configurations, by three ...

A pneumatic tire (10) having improved wet traction has two annular aquachannels (12). The tire has a wide, substantially square footprint, a distinctive tread pattern, and a new tread compound, and exhibits good QGL wet traction in addition to excellent hy...

A heavy duty tyre (1) comprises a carcass (6) extending between bead portions (4), and a belt layer (7) disposed radially outside the carcass (6) in a tread portion (2). The belt layer (7) comprises a radially outmost ply (7d) and a radially inner widest p...