Resilient tires and wheels inventions 08/06

20060191615 - Tire having expandable tread portion: A tire structure including an air passage disposed in the side wall of a tire between a flex region of the side wall and the upper most portion of the turnip, and a valve coupled to the air passage adapted to selectively control the flow of air through said passage....

20060191616 - Tire tread: A pneumatic tire for dirt track racing comprising lateral and circumferential grooves forming blocks on the tread surface. The blocks have leading and trailing edge walls. The trailing edge walls of the blocks are buttressed by inclining the walls at an angle of 20°-60° relative to a line perpendicular to...

20060191617 - Tire having a textured marking and method of making same: A tire is provided with at least one textured marking on an outer surface of a sidewall of the ire. The at least one textured marking includes crumb rubber adhered to the sidewall of the tire....

20060191618 - Device and process for manufacturing undulating plies: Process and device intended for the production of an undulating ply (O) formed of a ply of rubber mix reinforced by reinforcement cords (R) arranged side by side in the longitudinal machine direction at a given pitch, in which ply the reinforcement cords (R) form, in the plane of the...

20060191619 - Open layered steel cord with high breaking load: A steel cord (10) adapted for the reinforcement of elastomers comprises: a core steel filament (12) with a core steel filament diameter dc and coated with a polymer (14); six intermediate steel filaments (16) with an intermediate steel filament diameter di smaller than or equal to the core steel filament...

20060191620 - Pneumatic tyre including at least one reinforcing layer: A pneumatic tyre for a vehicle wheel includes a toroidal carcass, a tread band, a belt structure, and at least one reinforcing layer associated with the carcass. The carcass includes at least one carcass ply having a substantially continuous right-section profile. The carcass has a central crown portion and two...

20060185776 - Pneumatic tire tread: A pneumatic tire comprising a plurality of wishbone shaped patterns, each comprising a first substantially inclined circumferential groove and a second substantially inclined circumferential groove; and a plurality of curved, substantially lateral grooves, wherein each first substantially inclined circumferential groove and each second substantially inclined circumferential groove is intersected by...

20060185777 - Low noise pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having belt-shaped sound absorbing members. The belt-shaped sound absorbing members are mounted on the radially inner surface of the tread facing to the cavity of the pneumatic tire at prescribed intervals circumferentially of the tire by a fixing elastic band. The belt-shaped sound absorbing members each comprise...

20060185778 - Tire with cap ply layer: A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap-ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a leno weave tape having warp yarn in the longitudinal direction and weft yarns in the weft...

20060185779 - Tire with cap ply layer: A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a leno weave tape having warp yarn in the longitudinal direction and weft yarns in the...

20060185780 - Pneumatic tire for passenger cars: A pneumatic tire for passenger cars having at least one carcass ply extending between right and left beads through a tread, the at least one carcass ply having reinforcing cords that extend in the radial direction of the tire and are disposed at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of...

20060180255 - Pneumatic tire with tread having electrically conductive component underlying and extending through its tread: This invention relates to a pneumatic rubber tire having a circumferential tread containing an outer tread rubber layer, wherein said outer tread rubber layer contains an outer tire running surface, comprised of an electrically insulating (poorly electrically conducting) rubber composition and wherein said tread additionally contains a circumferential tread component...

20060180256 - Tire pressurization system: A tire pressurization system is activated upon ignition for routing an ignition signal through the pressure switch to start the compressor and open a solenoid valve for pressurizing automobiles tires through a check valve and a pressure line and through tire check valves on each of the tires for maintaining...

20060180257 - Crown reinforcement for a radial tire: The invention relates to a tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, surmounted by a crown reinforcement comprising at least two plies of reinforcement elements which are parallel to each other within each ply, said two plies being of unequal axial widths. According to the invention, at least one first profiled...

20060180258 - Composite of steel cord and rubber composition and tire using the same: A steel cord-rubber composite is provided, that has improved initial adhesion property and adhesion property against aging between the steel cord and the rubber composition with improved manufacturing cost efficiency. A steel cord-rubber composition composite includes a coating layer and a steel cord, and the coating layer includes an inner...

20060180259 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises: a tread portion; a pair of sidewall portions; a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein; a carcass having a main portion extending between the bead portions; a belt disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion; a bead apex disposed in...

20060180260 - Racing pneumatic tire: Two carcass layers for reinforcing between a pair of annular beads are laminated such that cords are inclined substantially symmetrically with respect to the tire circumferential direction, an angle of the cords with respect to the tire circumferential direction in a region of 10% of a belt width from a...

20060180261 - High tenacity polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate fibers: The present invention relates to a high strength polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate fiber produced by a method comprising controlling the stress-strain curve and fine structure of an undrawn yarn such that the drawability of the undrawn yarn in a drawing step is improved. The industrial polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate fiber with high strength according to the...

20060174985 - Pneumatic tire having a film-shaped electronic device and method of mounting the film-shaped electronic device: A pneumatic tire having a film-shaped electronic device on a surface of the tire or inside the tire. The film-shaped electronic device is slidable between sheet-shaped members disposed on both surfaces of the film-shaped electronic device....

20060174986 - Tire and tire producing method: A tire comprising a tread layer comprised of a tread rubber and an electrically conductive band arranged in a widthwise middle portion thereof, and a method of producing the tire, wherein the tread rubber is made of a low-conductive continuous rubber ribbon circumferentially wound plural times, and the electrically conductive...

20060174987 - Pneumatic radial tire: A pneumatic radial tire that can improve maneuver stability while maintaining riding comfort is provided. The pneumatic radial tire has a tire tread including at least two layers of a base tread and a cap tread arranged externally in a radial direction of the base tread. The base tread is...

20060174988 - Tire for heavy equipment and tire tread: The invention concerns a tire for heavy equipment of the heavy-vehicle, agricultural or construction machinery type, comprising a carcass reinforcement surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement, itself covered radially by a tread, the said tread being connected to two beads by two sidewalls. According to the invention, the tread of...

20060174989 - Tyre for remotely operated vehicle: The present invention discloses a tyre whose stiffness in its radial direction varies around its circumference. Preferably, the tyre is adapted to fit one or more wheels of a stair-climbing vehicle and its radial stiffness varies so as to allow the tyre to grip one or more stairs in use....

20060174990 - Inflatable articles having reduced gas permeability: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, an inflatable article having reduced gas permeability and a method of reducing the gas permeability of an inflatable article are provided. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, the inflatable article is made of approximately 100% polyisobutylene rubber. In accordance...

20060174991 - Pneumatic tire:

20060169376 - Tire tread: A tire tread has at least three rows of tread elements, each tread element in the at rows has at least one sipe and at least one sipe in each tread element row has a tie bar therein. Each tie bar in the sipes has a volume, and the volume...

20060169377 - Pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire which is allowed to increase block stiffness not only during braking and driving but also during cornering, and is allowed thereby to compatibly enhance tire performances both during braking and driving and during cornering. The pneumatic tire of the present invention is one where a...

20060169378 - Pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire which can improve its riding comfort under normal driving conditions, and which can improve its durability under run-flat driving conditions, while its increase in weight is inhibited as much as possible. This pneumatic tire includes a carcass layer and a belt layer. The carcass layer...

20060169379 - Tyre and rim for a vehicle wheel: A tyre for vehicle wheels has a pair of beads (5) each having a frusto-conical rest surface (5a) and showing a cross-section profile converging towards the rotation axis of the tyre (1) away from an equatorial plane (X-X) of same. Each bead (5) incorporates an annular anchoring structure (4) comprising...

20060169380 - Tire for heavy vehicles: The invention relates to a tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one layer to the other, forming with the circumferential direction angles of between 10° and 45°, which itself is...

20060169381 - Tire for heavy vehicles: The invention relates to a tire, the aspect ratio H/S of which is strictly greater than 0.55, having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, crossed from one ply to the other forming angles of between 10°...

20060169382 - Tire with internal cord reinforced rubber component: This invention relates to a tire having an internal component, exclusive of a visible surface of the tire, comprised of a composite of a cord reinforced rubber composition having a relatively low, silica-rich, reinforcing filler content comprised of precipitated silica and rubber reinforcing carbon black, together with silica coupler, in...

20060169383 - Tire for heavy vehicles: The invention relates to a tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one ply to the other, forming with the circumferential direction angles of between 10° and 45°, which itself is...