Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. A sipe is formed, on each of a leading side edge and a trailing side edge, with a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of a sipe, a non-chamfered region in which no other chamfered portion is present is provided in a part facing each of the chamfered portions, at least one end of the sipe communicates with the auxiliary groove, one end of the chamfered portion adjacent to the auxiliary groove in the rib communicates with the auxiliary groove, a maximum depth×(mm) of the sipe and a maximum depth y (mm) of the chamfered portion satisfy a relationship x×0.1?y?x×0.3+1.0, and a sipe width W of the sipe is constant in a range from an end positioned in the radial direction inside the chamfered portion to a groove bottom of the sipe.
Inventors:
Christophe Henri Joseph Schyns, Georges Gaston Feider, Philippe Jean-Marie Coton, Jaroslaw Micek, Jean-Marc Yves Florent Lacaze, Lionel Jean-Marie Bortolet, Suraj Sadananda, Sascha Karl-Heinz Glaub