US 12,472,777 B2
Motorcycle tire
Ryosuke Morimura, Hyogo (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Hyogo (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Hyogo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/889,579.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-178407 (JP), filed on Oct. 16, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0121632 A1, Apr. 17, 2025
Int. Cl. B60C 11/04 (2006.01); B60C 1/00 (2006.01); B60C 11/03 (2006.01)
CPC B60C 11/033 (2013.01) [B60C 1/0016 (2013.01); B60C 11/04 (2013.01); B60C 2200/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A motorcycle tire comprising a tread portion having a first tread edge, a second tread edge and a ground contacting surface therebetween,
the ground contacting surface comprising a first ground contacting surface from a tire equator to the first tread edge,
when the first ground contacting surface is divided equally in a developed width direction of the first ground contacting surface into five zones which are a first zone, a second zone, a third zone, a fourth zone and a fifth zone in order from the tire equator to the first tread edge,
a land ratio La2 of the second zone is larger than a land ratio La1 of the first zone and larger than a land ratio La3 of the third zone,
the land ratio La3 of the third zone is larger than the land ratio La1 of the first zone,
a land ratio La4 of the fourth zone is larger than the land ratio La3 of the third zone, and
a land ratio La5 of the fifth zone is larger than the land ratio La4 of the fourth zone.