Tire

Abstract

A pneumatic tire is provided with a decoration portion at a tire side portion. The decoration portion includes decoration elements, which include ridges, and gullies, which are inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction and divide the decoration elements into at least two regions. Thus, the gullies make the ridges non-continuous in the tire circumferential direction. The ridges include first ridges and second ridges that are smaller than the first ridges in one or both of height and width. At least some of the first ridges are inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction and are adjacent to one another. Thus, the gullies are formed between the adjacent first ridges.

1 . A tire comprising, at a tire side portion, a marked portion and a decoration portion, the decoration portion being configured by a combination of a plurality of types of decoration elements, and the plurality of types of decoration elements including:
 first decoration elements that are formed only by first ridges forming decoration element outlines; and   second decoration elements including:
 the first ridges forming decoration element outlines; and 
 second ridges that are arranged in regions demarcated by the first ridges and that are lower in height than the first ridges. 
   
     
     
         2 . The tire according to  claim 1  wherein, in the first decoration elements, interiors of regions surrounded by the first ridges are smooth surfaces. 
     
     
         3 . The tire according to  claim 1 , wherein inclination angles of side walls differ between the first ridges and the second ridges. 
     
     
         4 . The tire according to  claim 1 , wherein the first decoration elements and second decoration elements are arranged cyclically in the decoration portion. 
     
     
         5 . The tire according to  claim 1 , wherein the first ridges are configured by a plurality of linear ridges of arbitrary direction. 
     
     
         6 . The tire according to  claim 1 , wherein the first decoration elements and the second decoration elements are disposed in at least a portion of a periphery of the marked portion. 
     
     
         7 . The tire according to  claim 6 , wherein the ridges are arrayed in a peripheral region of the marked portion that does not include any marks, and the marks are presented as smooth surfaces.