US 11,951,775 B2
Pneumatic tire
Hikaru Kuriyama, Itami (JP)
Assigned to Toyo Tire Corporation, Itami (JP)
Filed by Toyo Tire Corporation, Itami (JP)
Filed on Jan. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/092,643.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-015753 (JP), filed on Feb. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0241930 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B60C 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60C 13/001 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pneumatic tire comprising:
a decorative area provided on a sidewall surface, wherein
three kinds of planes having an elongated rectangular shape with different inclinations with respect to a profile surface are tightly arranged in the decorative area,
the entire decorative area is recessed from the profile surface of the sidewall surface,
a first kind of plane included in the three kinds of planes having one high end and one low end,
a second kind of plane included in the three kinds of planes having one high end and one low end that are reversed relative to the one high end and the one low end of the first kind of plane,
a third kind of plane included in the three kinds of planes that is parallel to the profile surface,
the third kind of plane is a bottom surface of the decorative area,
the one low end of the first kind of plane and the one low end of the second kind of plane is located at the bottom surface of the decorative area,
the one high end of the first kind of plane and the one high end of the second kind of plane are positioned lower than the profile surface,
the first kind of plane and the second kind of plane are aligned in a first direction to make a first pair,
the first kind of plane and the third kind of plane are aligned in the first direction to make a second pair,
the second kind of plane and the third kind of plane are aligned in the first direction to make a third pair,
different combinations of the first pair, the second pair, and the third pair are aligned in a second direction, and
boundaries between each two planes aligned in the first direction are shifted in the first direction between the pairs adjacent in the second direction.