A tire includes a plurality of tire knobs of various shapes arranged to form contact surfaces configured to touch the ground. The contact surface is the radially outermost surface of each knob which may be formed in a variety of three-dimensional structure...

A pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle has a ratio W/L where W is a cross-sectional width and L is an outer diameter. The tire also has a belt-reinforcing layer having a high rigidity and disposed between a belt and a tread.

A simple method and apparatus for accurately estimating the contact patch shape of a moving tire. The vibration waveforms of a tire (20) with sipe rows (25A, 25B) formed at the respective pitches (P a , P b ) in the left and right shoulder lands (24a, 24b)...

Pneumatic tires for service on heavy vehicles having a belt package with widened belts. The tire (10) includes a belt reinforcing structure or belt package (20) having multiple cut belts (24, 26) of which one of the cut belts (24) has a width approximately...

A motor vehicle tire is associated to sensors (6) detecting the size and shape of tire trace on the ground and sending output signals to processing means (8).