Abstract: A tire that includes a tread portion having a designated mounting direction to a vehicle can comprise: an outer shoulder land portion having a greatest width, in the tire axial direction, of a ground contact surface among five land portions. The outer shoulder land portion can include a plurality of outer shoulder sipes connected to an outer shoulder circumferential groove. An outer middle land portion can include a plurality of outer middle sipes extending completely across the outer middle land portion in the tire axial direction. The outer shoulder sipes and the outer middle sipes each can include a pair of sipe walls. The outer shoulder sipes and the outer middle sipes can each include a body portion in which the pair of sipe walls are disposed substantially parallel to each other. A width of a body portion of each outer shoulder sipe can be greater than a width of a body portion of each outer middle sipe.

Abstract: The tire includes a tread portion having circumferential grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and land regions demarcated by the circumferential grooves. The circumferential grooves include a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove adjacent to the first circumferential groove and having a width larger than the first circumferential groove. The land regions include a first land region demarcated between the first circumferential groove and the second circumferential groove. The first land region has lateral grooves extending in a tire axial direction and lateral sipes extending in the tire axial direction and each having a width smaller than that of each of the lateral grooves. A total value of the widths of the lateral grooves and the lateral sipes connected to the second circumferential grooves is smaller than a total value of the widths of the lateral grooves and the lateral sipes connected to the first circumferential grooves.

Abstract: In a tread-forming surface of a mold, a contour of a land surface-forming portion located between two projections among at least three land surface-forming portions can be represented by a single circular arc that is convex outward. In a case where, of the two projections, one projection is a wide projection and the other projection is a narrow projection, when a surface that has a contour represented by at least one circular arc and that is tangent to the at least three land surface-forming portions is defined as a reference surface of the tread-forming surface, a drop distance from the reference surface to an end on the wide projection side of the land surface-forming portion can be longer than a drop distance from the reference surface to an end on the narrow projection side of the land surface-forming portion.

Abstract: A tire includes a surface geometry arrangement on a surface of a sidewall portion. The surface geometry arrangement includes a ridge pair in which two ridges bend so as to intersect each other a multiple number of times.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including a first land portion, the first land portion being provided with a plurality of first sipes. The plurality of first sipes extends in an arc shape manner. The plurality of first sipes is arranged on the first land portion without communicating with lateral grooves extending in a tire axial direction. In a tread plan view, a virtual sipe reference line of each of the plurality of first sipes has an angle equal to or less than 10 degrees with respect to a tire circumferential direction, wherein the virtual sipe reference line is a straight line that connects both ends of each of the plurality of first sipes.

Abstract: A tyre includes a crown land portion, an outboard middle land portion, an outboard shoulder land portion, an outboard crown circumferential groove, an outboard shoulder circumferential groove, an inboard middle land portion, an inboard shoulder land portion, an inboard crown circumferential groove, and an inboard shoulder circumferential groove. The outboard middle land portion is provided with full-opened outboard middle sipe that are inclined to a tyre axial direction. The outboard middle sipes each have two opposite sipe-edge portions provided with chamfer portions. In each chamfer portion of each outboard middle sipe, chamfer widths at both ends of the outboard middle sipe are larger than a chamfer width of a central portion of the outboard middle sipe. The outboard shoulder land portion is provided with outboard shoulder sipes that are inclined in the same direction as the outboard middle sipes to the tyre axial direction.

Abstract: A golf club head includes a face portion including a hitting face, a sole portion, a crown portion, and a hosel portion. The sole portion includes a center thin-wall part and an outer thick-wall part that is formed on a sole outer edge side of the center thin-wall part and is thicker than the center thin-wall part. The outer thick-wall part includes a first thick-wall part that is formed over a region including a position of a center of gravity of the head in a face-back direction, and a second thick-wall part that is positioned on a back side of the first thick-wall part and is thicker than the first thick-wall part. The outer thick-wall part of the sole portion may further include a third thick-wall part that is positioned on the back side of the second thick-wall part and is thinner than the second thick-wall part.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a carcass. The carcass includes a carcass ply extending from one bead portion to the other bead portion through a tread portion. The carcass ply is provided with at least one conductive thread extending from one bead portion to at least the tread portion. The conductive thread has an electrical resistance of 108 ?/cm or less per unit length. The conductive thread has a stress of 13 N or less at 1% elongation.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having excellent spin performance on approach shots under a wet condition and excellent spin performance on approach shots under a condition that there is grass between the golf ball and the dub face.

Abstract: Provided is an organic sulfur material comprising a sulfur-modified acrylic resin, wherein an acrylic resin is at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of (a) a polymer of at least one selected from the group consisting of acrylate compounds represented by CH2?C(R11)COOR12, wherein R11 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R12 is an alkyl group, and (b) a polymer of at least one selected from the group consisting of acrylate compounds above and at least one selected from the group consisting of diacrylate compounds represented by CH2?C(R21)COO—Y—OCO(R22)C?CH2, wherein each of R21 and R22 is the same or different and is a methyl group, etc., Y is a hydrocarbylene group, etc., wherein the hydrocarbylene group may have a substituent selected from a hydroxyl group and an alkyl group.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having excellent spin performance on approach shots under a wet condition and excellent spin performance on approach shots under a condition that there is grass between the golf ball and the club face. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film composed of at least one layer and formed on a surface of the golf ball body, wherein an outermost layer of the paint film located at the outermost layer of the golf ball contains a base resin and a porous filler, the base resin contains a polyurethane obtained by a reaction between a polyisocyanate composition and a polyol composition, and the porous filler contains SiO2 in an amount of 50 mass % or more as a constituent component.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including four circumferential grooves extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction and five land portions divided by the four circumferential grooves. The five land portions include a first middle land portion located between a first tread edge and a tire equator. The first middle land portion is provided with first middle sipes inclined with respect to a tire axial direction and fully traversing the first middle land portion in the tire axial direction. Each first middle sipe includes a pair of sipe edges, and at least one of the pair of sipe edges opens at the ground contact surface via a chamfer portion over an entire length thereof. The chamfer portion has a chamfer width increasing continuously from a first longitudinal edge to a second longitudinal edge of the first middle land portion.

Abstract: An iron type golf club head includes a hitting face including a plurality of score lines, a sole surface, a leading edge that constitutes a front edge of the sole surface, a trailing edge that constitutes a rear edge of the sole surface, and a score line center position that is determined based on the score lines. The sole surface includes a ridgeline that extends from a toe side to a heel side, and an additional surface that extends to traverse the ridgeline. The additional surface is a flat surface or a recessed surface. The additional surface may include a heel part that is located on the heel side with respect to the score line center position, and a toe part that is located on the toe side with respect to the score line center position.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire (1) includes: a tread portion (2) including a land portion (24) divided by a plurality of main grooves (22) formed on a tread surface (21); and a mount member (10) which is provided on a tire inner surface (7A) on an inner side of the tread portion (2), and to which electric equipment can be attached. The mount member (10) is disposed on the tire inner surface (7A) at a position corresponding to the land portion (24). Complex elastic modulus E*1 of a rubber composition constituting the mount member (10) is larger than complex elastic modulus E*2 of a rubber composition constituting the tread portion (2).

Abstract: An elastomer composition containing a styrene-based elastomer, and a temperature-responsive resin that changes its hydrophilicity with changes in temperature, the elastomer composition satisfying the following relationship at two given temperatures differing by at least 10° C.: (Contact angle at lower temperature)/(Contact angle at higher temperature)?0.90, the lower temperature being lower than 25° C.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a tire rubber composition and a tire which have good wet grip performance and an excellent ability to reduce deterioration of wet grip performance and abrasion resistance over time. The present disclosure relates to a tire rubber composition which contains one or more rubber components having a combined content of styrene-butadiene rubber and polybutadiene of 90% by mass or more, one or more fillers, and one or more vulcanizing agents, the rubber composition as a whole having a vinyl content of 20 mol % or higher and a trans content of 50 mol % or higher, each based on 100 mol % of the combined amount of the butadiene-based structural units in the butadiene portion of the styrene-butadiene rubber and the polybutadiene.

Abstract: A mold includes a tread-forming surface to shape a tread surface. The tread-forming surface can include projections to form circumferential grooves, and land surface-forming portions to form land surfaces. Among the three land surface-forming portions aligned in an axial direction with the projections interposed therebetween, the land surface-forming portion located between the two projections can be a curved land surface-forming portion. A contour of the curved land surface-forming portion can be represented by one or more circular arcs. A boundary between a reference side surface of each projection and the curved land surface-forming portion can be a reference boundary point, and the reference boundary point can be located inward of a reference forming surface of the tread-forming surface.