Resilient tires and wheels inventions 03/07

20070068613 - Band for use on a tire: A band for use on a tire having a circumferential tread with one or more circumferential grooves provided therein. The band is configured to be installed into one of the grooves in the tread to affect the appearance and/or performance of the tire.... Agent: ChiefIPCounsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20070068614 - Bicycle tire with reinforcement layer: The invention relates to bicycle tires with at least one reinforcement layer that contains strength supports and that is arranged between carcass and tread rubber and/or between carcass layers below the tread rubber and/or within the tread rubber. For a high resistance to puncturing with low weight, the reinforcement layer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070062624 - Method for improving the grip of a tyre on a snowy and/or icy road, and a winter tyre: A method for improving tyre grip on snowy and/or icy roads includes forming a tread band with a base elastomeric material comprising at least 70 wt % of a polymer mixture including between 20 wt % and 60 wt % of at least one styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer and between 40 wt... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070062623 - Tread comprising relief elements covered by a specific mixture: A tire tread comprising a plurality of elements in relief (1) comprising a contact face (2) intended to come into contact with the roadway during travel and lateral faces (13, 14, 15, 16), the intersection of each lateral face with the contact face forming a ridge (23, 24, 25, 26).... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070062626 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of protrusions on a bottom of each of the grooves. The height of the protrusion is variable in a profile of the protrusion in a circumference direction of the pneumatic. The protrusion has at least one peak portion that protrudes away from a center... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd. Suite 2500

20070062625 - Pneumatic tire having a rubber component containing zinc organic framework material: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire comprising at least one component, the at least one component including a rubber composition, the rubber composition including at least one diene based rubber; and at least one metal organic framework material including divalent zinc and a multidentate organic ligand.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Patent & Trademark Department - D/823

20070062627 - Pneumatic tire for a vehicle: Vehicle pneumatic tire in radial design comprising a profiled tread (1), a multi-layered belt assembly (2), an inner layer (4), a casing (3) embodied in at least one layer, which casing is guided around bead cores (6) in bead areas, side walls (8) and for each side wall (8) at... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070056664 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has longitudinal grooves formed continuously in a circumferential direction of the pneumatic tire in a region of a buttress part disposed between a tread part and a sidewall part; a plurality of transverse grooves formed continuously with the longitudinal grooves in the above-described region of the buttress... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070056665 - Anti-irregular wear device for tire tread: A tire tread comprising a tread pattern formed by elements in relief defined by at least two grooves of a width of generally circumferential orientation, at least one of said grooves comprising a plurality of anti-wear studs arranged substantially regularly in the longitudinal (circumferential) direction of the tread, each stud... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070056666 - Tire with quadrangular studs: The invention relates to a studded air-filled vehicle tire having a rolling direction and comprising a rubber tread with pattern blocks and grooves that-separate the blocks. Premade stud holes are arranged in the tread. Anti-slip studs each include a hard cermet piece that has a substantially quadrangular shape with diagonal... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070056667 - Wheel for a floor surface: A wheel for an object to be moved on a floor surface has a hub and an outer running surface secured to the hub. The running surface is rotatable about an axis of rotation. A fiber layer of fibers is applied onto the running surface. The fiber layer forms an... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20070056670 - Tire filled with core and curable elastomeric material and method: A tire having a core located in a tire cavity and a cured and foamed elastomeric material located in the tire cavity adjacent the core. The core is made of a solid material, a precured and foamed elastomeric material or a hollow rigid structure. The core may be a single... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070056668 - Tire filled with recycled and curable elastomeric material and method: A first tire having a cavity filled with cured and foamed elastomeric material and a recycled foamed elastomeric material. The recycled foamed elastomeric material was removed from a second tire for recycling in the first tire.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070056669 - Vehicle wheel made with precured and foamed elastomeric material and method: A vehicle wheel having a tire mounted on a wheel rim with a precured and foamed elastomeric material in a closed cavity in the tire and a polyurethane formed in the closed cavity around the precured and foamed elastomeric material.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070056671 - Bicycle tube tire: The invention relates to a bicycle tube tire comprising a tubular casing (2) closed in an annular manner, a rubber tread (4), an air sealing means (1) and a webbing (3). To fix the bicycle tube tire onto the rim simply and quickly, the webbing (3) is made of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070056672 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass 1 comprised of one or more carcass plies toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions, a tread rubber 2 arranged at an outer peripheral side of a crown portion of the carcass 1, a belt 5 arranged between the tread rubber 2 and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070056673 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions with a bead core therein, and a carcass ply extending between the bead portions through the tread portion and sidewall portions and wound around the bead core in each of the bead portions... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070051446 - Tire/wheel assembly and run-flat support member: A tire/wheel assembly comprising a wheel having a rim, a pneumatic tire fitted to the rim and a run-flat support member. The pneumatic tire includes a cavity, and the run-flat support member is disposed in the cavity of the pneumatic tire. The run-flat support member includes an annular shell and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20070051447 - Pneumatic tire containing zinc phthalocyanine compound: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having at least one component including a sulfur vulcanizable rubber composition, the rubber composition including at least one diene based rubber and at least one zinc phthalocyanine compound.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070051448 - Pneumatic tire and method of designing tread pattern of the tire: A pneumatic tire reduces the columnar resonance noise of the tire while controlling the lowering of wet performances, wherein four circumferential grooves continuously extending in the circumferential direction of the tire are disposed in a treading face and a plurality of lateral grooves each having one end opened to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070051449 - Pneumatic tire: The tire cross section height is less than 110 mm. A sidewall rubber disposed in a sidewall portion is formed of a laminated body of a narrow rubber ribbon wound along a circumferential direction of the tire. An outer peripheral surface in a region extending from a shoulder portion of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070044880 - Tire for golf cart: A tire for a golf cart includes an inner tire, and a thin outer tire mounted around the inner tire. The inner tire made of EVA solid foam material co-operates with the thin outer tire having a plurality of protruding bosses to construct a solid composite tire, so that the... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070044881 - Dynamic tire-pressure control system: A dynamic vehicular system for controlling pressure in tires of a vehicle. The system has sensors for detecting dynamic conditions of the vehicle and for detecting stutter. An air-supply includes a compressor and at least one storage tank for supplying pressurized air to the tires of the vehicle. An electronic... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070044882 - Pneumatic tires: A pneumatic tire comprising a body, a tread, a pair of bead assemblies disposed in the lower section of the body, where said bead assemblies include a bead core and a bead filler, and a pair of sidewalls, where the bead assemblies and pair of sidewalls include vulcanizated rubber, and... Agent: Jon D. Wood, Chief I.p. Counsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20070044883 - Pneumatic tire with depolymerized butyl rubber-based built-in sealant prepared with activated organoperoxide: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire with a built-in sealant layer comprised of a depolymerized butyl rubber based sealant precursor. The butyl rubber of the built-in sealant precursor composition is depolymerized in situ within the tire with an activated free radical generating organoperoxide. The organoperoxide is activated with... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070044884 - Pneumatic tire and producing method of pneumatic tire: In a pneumatic tire whose tire cross section height is less than 110 mm and which has an inner liner layer disposed inside of a carcass layer, the inner liner layer has a wide rubber ribbon region formed by spirally winding a wide rubber ribbon along a tire circumferential direction,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070044885 - Pneumatic tire and producing method of pneumatic tire: In the producing method of the pneumatic tire, a step in which a wide rubber ribbon having a width of 60 to 110 mm is wound in a circumferential direction to form annular bodies is repeated a plurality of times, an inner liner member in which the annular bodies are... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070044886 - Tire information tab protection device: An information tab protection device for a tire includes at least one frame protruding from an outer surface of one of the sidewalls and an information tab is connected to the sidewalls having the at least one frame and is enclosed by the at least one frame.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070044887 - Tire having a sidewall reinforcement: A tire, which has a maximum section width, an upper section above the maximum section width, and a lower section below the maximum section width, includes a tread extending circumferentially about the tire, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead portions, and at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially... Agent: ChiefIPCounsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20070044888 - Tire having a sidewall reinforcement: A tire, which has a maximum section width, an upper section above the maximum section width, and a lower section below the maximum section width, includes a circumferential tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions. The tire further includes at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially... Agent: ChiefIPCounsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20070044889 - Tire having a sidewall reinforcement: A tire, which has a maximum section width, an upper section above the maximum section width, and a lower section below the maximum section width, includes a tread extending circumferentially about the tire, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead portions, and at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially... Agent: ChiefIPCounsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.