Resilient tires and wheels inventions 04/07

20070089820 - Non-pneumatic wheel: A wheel including an annular hub and a plurality of curved spokes extending radially outward from the hub. Each spoke has an inner base adjacent the hub and an outer tip opposite the base. The wheel further includes an annular rim concentric with the hub and connected to the spokes... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070089821 - Pneumatic tire and mold: A pneumatic tire includes center blocks that are arranged over an equator of the pneumatic tire. Second blocks are arranged on outer sides of the center blocks in the direction of the width of the pneumatic tire. One center block opposes at least three second blocks.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070089822 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire which can enhance performance on snow while assuring performance in wet or dry condition is provided. A plurality of inclined lateral grooves 16 which extend from the tread edge 12E toward the tire equatorial surface CL, being inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction, are arranged... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070089823 - Tire chain: A tire chain for a vehicle is provided. The tire chain has an outer side strand that is in contact with an outer side flank of a vehicle tire in the mounted state and an inner side strand that is in contact with an inner side flank of the vehicle... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070089824 - Method for manufacturing low noise pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having a noise damper, a method for manufacturing the same, and a method for fixing the damper to the tire are disclosed. The inner surface of the tread portion of the vulcanized tire is buffed, and the noise damper is fixed to the buffed inner surface, using... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070084534 - Reinforced blade for use in a vulcanization mold to form a sipe in a tire: A reinforced blade for use in a tire vulcanization mold is provided. The reinforced blade, having a thickness of less than 0.030 inches, is configured to form a sipe in a tread of a tire in the tire vulcanization mold. The reinforced blade includes a main segment and a support... Agent: ChiefIPCounsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20070084533 - Heavy duty tire: A heavy duty tire having both an excellent wear resistance and a low rolling resistance and comprising a tread rubber having a two layer structure composed of a cap rubber layer 2Gb and a base rubber layer 2Ga underlying the cap layer, wherein the tread rubber extends axially outward from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070084535 - Runflat device for a motor vehicle, and a mounted assembly incorporating it: The present invention concerns a runflat device for a tubeless mounted assembly for a motor vehicle and an assembly incorporating said device. A device in accordance with the invention for a unit comprises a wheel rim having a plurality of pieces and a tire cover comprising beads mounted against the... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070084536 - Inner-tube assembly for bicycle wheel: An inner-tube assembly that includes an inner-tube and a valve assembly. The valve assembly is configured to facilitate the inflation of the inner-tube, and the valve assembly includes a valve core and a valve housing. The valve housing has a lower portion coupled to the inner-tube and an opposite upper... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070084538 - Run-flat tire support member manufacturing method, run-flat tire support member and pneumatic run-flat tire: A production method for a supporting member without a joint, a supporting member without a joint, and a pneumatic run flat tire comprising the supporting member are obtained. The shell without a joint can be obtained by shaping a cylindrical member having a bottom part out of a metal plate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070084537 - Tire wheel assembly: A run flat tire wheel assembly having a run flat support member formed by a ring-shaped metal shell and rubbery elastic members in an inside cavity of a tire/rim, wherein the rubbery elastic member comprises a rubber composition including (A) 100 parts by weight of a diene-based rubber and (B)... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070079915 - Cluster trac 4 season radial technical field: A vehicle tire 10 is provided. The tire 10 includes an outermost member 12 having a plurality of spaced aligned apertures 22 formed therethrough. An innermost member 28 is aligned in and adjacent to the outermost member 12. Additionally a plurality of spaced aligned elongated studs 40 are formed in... Agent: Kenneth D. Baugh

20070079916 - Self-supporting tire for wheels for bicycles, motor-cycles and the like: Disclosed is a self-supporting tire for wheels for bicycles, motorcycles and the like comprising an outer surface layer (5), which establishes contact with the ground (8) and an inner supporting layer (6) realized by a flexible polyurethane elastomer with a cellular structure, which at least partially occupies the internal volume... Agent: R. Ruschena Patent Agent, LLC

20070079917 - Tire for motorcycle: A tire 2 comprises a tread 4, a sidewall 6, a bead 8, and a carcass 10. The bead 8 includes a core 20 and an apex 22 which extends outward in a radial direction from the core 20. The apex 22 has an outer layer 24 and an inner... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070074796 - Disposable tire wheel cover: A disposable tire/wheel cover includes a round elastic material having a waterproof front face, a back face having a concentric hole, an elastic band around the concentric hole's perimeter, whereby the round elastic material can be removably attached to a tire or a wheel, and surface contact grips on the... Agent: Kurt M. Rylander Rylander & Associates

20070074797 - Pneumatic tire: A tire having a tire tread, the tread having a groove void radially inward of a wearable tread portion; and a degradable tread filler disposed in and substantially filling the groove void, the void being exposed upon wear of the wearable tread portion and dislocation of the degradable tread filler.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070074798 - Low noise pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a low noise pneumatic tire having a configuration where, while installation work of a strip-shaped sound absorbent is simple, it is possible to simultaneously reduce cavity resonance and high-frequency noise, and thereby to effectively reduce noise when a vehicle is traveling. In the low noise pneumatic tire of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070074799 - Pneumatic tire: This invention relates to a pneumatic tire provided at its bead portion with a rubber chafer (4) and covered at its inner surface with an innerliner (5), wherein a toe rubber (6) is further arranged on a toe end part of the bead portion so as to overlap with the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070074800 - Tire with component having nanozeolite: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having at least one component, the at least component including a rubber composition, the rubber composition including a diene based elastomer and 10 to 100 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of elastomer, of a nanozeolite having a particle... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070074801 - Tire with low thermal expansion component: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising at least one component comprising a rubber composition comprising a diene based elastomer and an inorganic negative thermal expansion (NTE) filler comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of metal tungstates, metal phosphates, metal molybdates, metal vanadates,... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823