Resilient tires and wheels – Tires – resilient – Anti-skid devices
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-21
2009-02-17
Maki, Steven D (Department: 1791)
Resilient tires and wheels
Tires, resilient
Anti-skid devices
C152S209220, C152S209230, C152SDIG020, C152S902000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07490645
ABSTRACT:
A pneumatic tire which includes a tie bar in a lateral groove disposed in a block array, the tie bar connecting adjacent blocks in a circumferential direction through the lateral groove. The tie bar is formed with a sipeing having a zigzag portion, the zigzag portion extending in a zigzag manner in a direction of a groove centerline of the lateral groove. The sipeing is a three-dimensional sipeing in which a sipeing wall surface is repeatedly recessed and projected, three-dimensionally.
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Machine translation for Japan 11-278016, Dec. 15, 2006.
Shinmura Yasushi
Sugihara Hideaki
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Maki Steven D
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.
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