IP Library Granted Patent US 12686237
Granted Patent B2
US 12686237 · App. 18/852,525 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Pneumatic vehicle tyre

Inventors: Martin Vennebörger (Hannover, DE); Artur Fuchs (Hannover, DE); Torsten Heinhaupt (Celle, DE); Ulrich Behr (Hannover, DE)
Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
B60C11/24B60C11/0304B60C11/1218B60C11/0302
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12686237
App. No.
18/852,525
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a tread with profile positives delimited by grooves, including profile positives which are provided with sipes, which in plan view run at least in certain portions at an angle of 0° to 50° to the axial direction and have a width of 0.4 mm to 1.6 mm and a depth at the deepest point that is at least the profile depth reduced by 4.5 mm and at most 100% of the profile depth, with the sipes in each case being involved in forming at least one wear indicator. The wear indicator is formed by a sipe portion of the sipe which in plan view has the form of a sun symbol or a snowflake symbol.

Claims (19)

1 . A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising:

a tread with a profile depth and profile positives delimited by grooves;

a semi-central profile block of the tread;

a first sipe and a second sipe, which in plan view run at an angle of 0° to 50° to the axial direction and has a width of 0.4 mm to 1.6 mm and a depth at the deepest point that is at least the profile depth reduced by 4.5 mm and at most 100% of a profile depth;

a sun shaped symbol of the first sipe and having a profile depth less than a sipe base;

a snowflake shaped symbol of the second sipe having a profile depth less than the profile depth of the sun shaped symbol;

a wear indicator formed by the first sipe and the second sipe, the wear indicator having a first symbol, a second symbol and a non-symbol portion and indicating a first state of wear;

the first symbol has a first profile depth less than a profile depth of the non-symbol portion and indicating a critical state of wear; and

a symbolic wear indicator formed in a profile rib that runs around a circumference of the tire.

2 . A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising:

a tread with a profile depth and profile positives delimited by grooves;

a semi-central profile block;

a first sipe and a second sipe, which in plan view run at an angle of 0° to 50° to the axial direction and has a width of 0.4 mm to 1.6 mm and a depth at the deepest point that is at least the profile depth reduced by 4.5 mm and at most 100% of a profile depth;

a wear indicator formed by the first sipe and the second sipe, the wear indicator having a first symbol, a second symbol and a non-symbol portion;

the first symbol has a first profile depth less than a profile depth of the non-symbol portion; and

the second symbol has a second profile depth less than the first profile depth.

3 . The tire of claim 2 , wherein the first symbol is part of the first sipe and the second symbol is part of the second sipe and a portion of the first symbol overlaps a portion of the second symbol in a circumferential direction.

4 . The tire of claim 2 , wherein the wear indicator is located between first and second oblique drainage grooves and first and second short grooves.

5 . The tire of claim 2 , wherein the first sipe and the second sipe are delimited by a sipe base having 100 percent of the profile depth.