Abstract: A method of designing a tire designs a tire comprising a step 20 of determining a resonance sound frequency f being a reference frequency of an air column resonance sound produced by the tire, on the basis of a ground contact length of the tire in a case where a standard internal pressure and a standard load are applied to the tire, a step 30 of determining the number of pitches of the block row, and a step 40 of determining a block row phase in a case where a band of a secondary pitch noise frequency fp2 falls within a range overlapping with a band of the resonance sound frequency f, the block row phase defined by intervals at which the plurality of blocks forming the block row are placed, the secondary pitch noise frequency fp2 being a secondary component of a reference frequency of pitch noise arising from the block row at a reference speed being a reference traveling speed of a vehicle equipped with the tire.

Abstract: A method of designing a tire designs a tire including a block row which has a plurality of blocks sectioned by circumferential grooves and lateral grooves, and which is formed along a tire circumferential direction. The method of designing a tire comprises the steps of determining a resonance sound frequency f being a reference frequency of an air column resonance sound produced by the tire, on the basis of a ground contact length of the tire in a case where a standard internal pressure and a standard load are applied to the tire; and the steps of determining the number of pitches of the block row in such a manner that a secondary pitch noise frequency fp2 is shifted from the resonance sound frequency f, the secondary pitch noise frequency fp2 being a secondary component of a reference frequency of pitch noise arising from the block row at a reference speed being a reference traveling speed of a vehicle equipped with the tire.