PNEUMATIC TIRE
DRIVE
November 26, 2014
A pneumatic tire having, on a tread surface, polygonal blocks closely and densely arranged and capable of reducing noise in a high dimension is provided. On the tread surface, land portions are defined by a pair of circumferential main grooves extending in a zig-zag manner along a tire equator on lateral sides thereof and divided, by at least four circumferential narrow grooves 3 extending in the zig-zag manner along the tire equator and multiple lateral grooves 4 communicating between the circumferential main groove and the circumferential narrow groove or between the circumferential narrow grooves, into at least five block rows L each of which including polygonal blocks with at least five corners arranged in a tire circumferential direction, wherein a block arrangement having the polygonal blocks 5 arranged in a line-symmetric manner with respect to the tire equator as an axis of symmetry includes side regions R 1 , R 2 facing each other across the tire equator C and displaced from each other in the tire circumferential direction by a phase difference of 0.2 to 0.4 times of a repetition pitch of a pattern of the block row.
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