Resilient tires and wheels inventions 07/06

20060162831 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having improved noise buffering capability and operation stability while maintaining excellent water discharge capability. A circumferential straight main groove (1) is provided at the center of a tread center region. Arc-like curved main grooves (3) where a plurality of arc-like grooves (3a) are circumferentially formed so as...

20060162832 - Tire having narrowing sipes: A tire having sipes is provided. The tire includes a circumferential tread configured with at least one rib bound by at least one groove. The rib has a plurality of sipes that extend from the groove into the rib wherein one or more of the sipes narrow in a direction...

20060162833 - Approved multi-purpose vehicle tire: The invention is a light weight composite tire for use on multipurpose vehicles. The first of the tire is divided into chambers by laminated bulkheads which adds strength. The tire could be used on all terrain vehicles such as a rescue vehicle that requires light weight and the ability to...

20060162834 - Vehicle wheel rim assembly: A wheel rim is constructed to include a wheel rim body holding a tire, a mounting ring formed of two semicircular frame bars and mounted on the wheel rim body to hold a packing rubber, and a supplementary tire support mounted on the mounting ring around the wheel rim body...

20060162835 - Tire wheel assembly: A tire wheel assembly capable of enhancing the durability in run-flat driving. In the tire wheel assembly, a pneumatic tire is fitted to the rim of a wheel, and a run-flat support composed of an annular shell having a support surface projecting to the outer circumferential side and leg parts...

20060162836 - Pneumatic tire and method of mounting the same: The present invention provides a runflat tire having an effectively improved runflat durability while continuously running under a runflat condition due to a low tire pressure or puncture, without sacrificing other characteristics such as riding comfort during an ordinal driving at normal internal pressure. A runflat tire 1 according to...

20060162837 - Run flat tire: A flat tire (2) according to the present invention includes a load support layer (12) positioned on an inside in an axial direction of a sidewall (6). The tire (2) further includes a belt (14) constituted by an inner belt ply (40) and an outer belt ply (42), and a...

20060162838 - Locked bead pneumatic tire with wrap-around toeguard: A pneumatic tire 10 has a carcass ply 12 or plies 12, 14 with a locked tie-in construction and a wrap-around toeguard 18. Each wrap-around toeguard 18 is a non cord reinforced elastomeric unitary strip wound 360.degree. in a singular annular bead. The wrap-around toeguard cord reinforced unitary strip 18...

20060157176 - Traction pad: An improved method for providing additional traction to vehicles during icy and snowy conditions. Especially in the Rocky Mountain states, where trucks are required to carry chains during the winter season, the Traction Pad (#6)provides a simpler and quicker alternative. The Traction Pads (#6) stack upon each other, are light-weight,...

20060157178 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a pair of bead portions, a sidewall portion extending from the bead portions outward in a radial direction of the tire, a tread portion connected to an outer side of the sidewall portion in the radial direction of the tire through a shoulder portion, and extension...

20060157179 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having a tread surface formed with a groove portion includes a bag-like groove. The bag-like groove includes a groove head portion having a partially opened substantially loop-like inner wall, and a groove neck portion which is in communication with the opening of the groove head portion through...

20060157177 - Tire, device for extruding unvulcanized tread rubber for the tire, and method of extruding unvulcanized tread rubber for the tire: A crack suppressing rubber, which has elongation-at-break which is superior to elongation-at-break of a cap rubber, is disposed so as to reinforce a vicinity of a groove bottom of a circumferential direction narrow groove provided in the vicinity of a shoulder of a tire tread. Due to this, generation of...

20060157180 - Low noise pneumatic tire: This invention provides a low noise pneumatic tire allowed to achieve an efficient noise reduction effect by making full use of characteristics of a sound absorbing material. A pneumatic tire according to the present invention is a low noise pneumatic tire where a band-shaped sound absorbing material formed of a...

20060157181 - Tire bead core and pneumatic tire: A tire bead core has an annular body formed by annularly winding and bundling one bead wire in the form of a quadrangle in cross section which has two pairs of opposing sides substantially parallel to each other. The annular body comprises a plurality of winding portions radially stacked, each...

20060157182 - Pneumatic tire with high turnup, locked bead construction: A pneumatic radial ply tire for heavier load conditions having a reduced weight, high durability bead area. The pneumatic tire includes a tire bead and a carcass ply folded about the bead to define a main body portion and a turnup portion. The turnup portion is folded around the bead...

20060151079 - Degradable blading for tire curing molds: A degradable sipe blade for forming sipes in a tire tread, where the degradable material may be removed by exposure to water. A tire curing apparatus is also provided having a plurality of degradable sipe blades affixed to the mold surface within the tread pattern. In addition, a cured tire...

20060151078 - Tread pattern for winter tires: A tyre for a vehicle wheel includes a tread band. The tread band includes a pattern, including at least two circumferential portions, an elongated ridge, and at least two shoulder blocks. The at least two circumferential portions are disposed in axial side-by-side relationship. At least one of the circumferential portions...

20060151080 - Friction roller in conveyor: A friction roller (10) includes a support roller (11) and an annular elastic ring (15) which it externally fitted to the support roller (11). The support roller (11) is divided into two portions in a thickness direction, that is, a first divided roller (12) and a second divided roller (13)....

20060151081 - Twisting machine, twisted wire manufacturing method, ply, and pneumatic tire: The twister includes a rotating body 30 for twisting plural filament wires that are fed thereto to form a cord 20 and for applying a feeding force to the cord 20. The rotating body 30 includes a feeding mechanism 58 within a housing 31, and the cord 20 is discharged...

20060151082 - Self-sealing puncture proof tire: A self-sealing puncture-proof pneumatic tubeless tire comprising a layer of soft non-cured gum rubber compound fixedly attached to the inner surface of the tire and a layer of soft textured nylon ply reinforced rubber secured by the adhesive effect of the non-cured gum rubber compound and vulcanized at the wire...

20060151083 - Process and device for cross-linking/expanding a blank for a safety support for a tire and support obtained by this process: A process for cross-linking/expanding at least one cross-linkable, expandable blank, which is intended to form all or part of an elastomeric safety support for a tire in which: the cross-linking consists of curing the expandable or expanded blank in a bath of fluid at excess pressure which is contained in...

20060151084 - Tyre for vehicle wheels with a reinforced bead: Tyre for vehicle wheels comprising; a) a carcass structure having at least one carcass ply associated with respective left and right bead wires, each bead wire being enclosed in a respective bead, said bead comprising a bead filler b) a belt structure comprising at least one belt strip applied circumferentially...

20060144488 - Airless tire: This invention pertains to a tire which supports load by means of compressing the tire's elastomeric structure and requires no internal inflation pressure. The preferred embodiments utilize circumferential ribs or radially oriented ribs of elastomer to support the load....

20060144490 - Tire for use in two-wheeled motor vehicle and method for manufacturing the same: The tire for use in a two-wheeled motor vehicle is arranged in that in a condition in which the tire is assembled to a normal rim and in a normal internal pressure condition in which the tire is filled with normal internal pressure, a ratio (TW/h) of a tread width...

20060144491 - Device for molding a keyhole sipe in a tire tread: The present invention provides for an improved device for molding keyhole sipes larger in size, i.e. sipes having a wider passage, than currently being formed in treads that will avoid damaging the tread during formation and removal thereof from a mold. The device includes an elongated deformable body member having...

20060144492 - Tire tread having a tread block with an undercut design: The present invention provides for an improved tire tread having an improved hydroplaning resistance. Specifically, the tread includes one or more tread blocks having one or more walls with an undercut surface to deviate the flow of water from a circumferential groove(s) to a lateral groove(s), thereby providing for improved...

20060144489 - Method of increasing plasticity of tread composition: The plasticity of a tread composition may advantageously be increased by incorporating, for example, a relatively small amount of an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (“UHMWPE”). A tread cap composition, in accordance with the principles of the invention, may be a composition resulting from the combination of components including: a...

20060144493 - Tire chain assembly: A tire chain assembly for enhancing tire traction is provided. The assembly does not require the car to be moved or placed on a jack to be installed. The tire chain assembly comprises a pair of parallel nylon straps connected by nylon cross straps bearing rivets or spikes to provide...

20060144494 - Low pressure tire: A low pressure tire including a torus of flexible, substantially inelastic material. The material will not deform at a temperature of about 225° F. The torus includes an inner diameter surface for engaging a tire supporting rim and an outer diameter surface for contacting a support surface. The torus can...

20060144495 - Pneumatic tire with improved durability: A pneumatic tire using an inner liner layer comprising a film of a thermoplastic resin, or a blend of a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, having an air permeation coefficient of not more than 25×10−12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg and a Young's modulus of 1 to 1000 MPa, wherein a buffer rubber layer...

20060144496 - Tire with double layer innerliner: A pneumatic tire with a double layer innerliner structure bonded to an inner face of the tire carcass for reducing noise generated by air vibrations inside of the tire's air chamber, and a method of making the tire. The double layer structure includes a first innerliner layer of non-foamed rubber...