Resilient tires and wheels inventions 02/07

20070039672 - Tire with protection protrusions encompassing discharge terminals: A tire includes a tread rubber layer, a conductive layer located beneath the tread rubber layer and a reinforcement layer located at side periphery of the tread rubber layer and the conductive layer. Tread grooves are defined in a top surface of the tread tuber layer and a protection protrusion... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070039673 - Tubeless bicycle tire: A tubeless tire includes a tread portion, two sidewalls, an interfacing material integrally formed between the two sidewalls of a pliable, flexible yet reliable material, two beads extending outwardly from the tire, delimiting a section formed by the interfacing material, and an air valve stem provided on the interfacing material.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070039674 - Tire, retread tire and method of producing the same: A tire comprises at least a bias carcass, a cushion rubber and a tread rubber viewing from an inside of a tread center zone in a radial direction of the tire, in which a sulfur content in the cushion rubber is 0.75-1.60% by mass. Also, a tire comprises at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070034308 - Wheel unit: A wheel unit (10) comprises a wheel rim (12), a pneumatic tyre (14) receivable on the wheel rim (12) and a runflat assembly (16) adapted to be seated on the wheel rim (12) to close off a well (22) provided in the wheel rim (12). The runflat assembly (16) includes... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070034309 - Process for producing tyres, tyres thus obtained and elastomeric compositions used therein: A crosslinkable elastomeric composition includes at least one elastomeric polymer including carboxylic groups, and at least one epoxidized elastomeric polymer including greater than or equal to 0.1 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % of epoxide groups relative to a total number of moles of monomers... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070034310 - Snow chains with a limited bulk: c

20070034311 - Runflat tire with sidewall component containing high strength glass bubbles: A pneumatic runflat tire comprising a sidewall component comprising a rubber composition comprising at least one diene based elastomer and from about 1 to about 40 phr of glass bubbles having a crush strength of at least 10,000 psi as measured by ASTM D3102-78 in glycerol.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070034312 - Vehicle tire: A tire comprises a sidewall provided with a mark region for displaying at least one mark including at least one of a sold mark and an outline mark, the mark region is provided with serration made up of serration slots and ridges which are drawn up in lines, the mark... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070029018 - Rubber composition for tire and pneumatic tire comprising the same: A rubber composition for a tire improving friction performance on ice and a pneumatic tire comprising the same are provided. A rubber composition for a tire comprising 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of a nonmetallic fiber having an average fiber diameter of 1 to 100 μm and an average... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070029019 - Ring member for a tire chain, especially a protective tire chain, and method for producing a tire chain: A ring member for a tire chain has a ring body having at least one flattened portion deviating from a circular shape at an outer side of the ring member. The tire chain made from such a ring member has also stay members engaging the ring members. The ring members... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20070029020 - Solid suspended tire: A tire includes an annular body of elastomeric material that includes a middle radial region. A plurality of unpressurized cavities are defined by the middle radial region and are distributed in a pattern that includes a first radial band of cavities and a second radial band of cavities. Each cavity... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. 100 N.e. Adams Street

20070029021 - Pneumatic tire: The pneumatic tire is provided with rim protectors protruded more to the tire outer side than said outer surface on at least one outer surface 301 of said sidewalls 300 from said bead portions 200 toward said tread 100 direction and are continuously formed in the tire circumferential direction, wherein... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070023117 - Tyre with pivotable ground pads: A pivotable ground pad tyre includes a tyre for mounting on a vehicle wheel and a plurality of ground-engaging pads disposed around the circumference of the tyre. Each pad is capable of at lease a limited angle of rotational displacement about a substantially radial axis R of the tyre such... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP (formerly Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP)