Resilient tires and wheels inventions 05/07

20070119531 - Airless spare tire: An airless spare tire formed from an elastomeric material, preferably a polyurethane material, that includes an outer tread, like side walls and a closed undersurface, and where the side walls have identical spaced cavities formed therein, each to intersect a center section, and which cavities each have the shape of... Agent: M. Reid Russell

20070119532 - Pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire provided with an elastic fixing band having excellent durability and enabling stable attachment of a member, which is independent from the tire, to an inner surface of a tread thereof. The pneumatic tire of the present invention includes a member attached to an inner surface... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070119533 - Pneumatic tire with noise damper: A pneumatic tire with a noise damper made of a spongelike multi-cellular material is disclosed. The noise damper is divided into small dampers to improve the high-speed durability of the tire. The noise damper is provided with a water-impermeable outer coating to prevent water from infiltrating into the spongelike multi-cellular... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070119534 - Pneumatic radial tire: A pneumatic tire largely improves the run-flat durability while preventing the deterioration of the ride comfort to the input of vibrations to the tire at a normal state and comprises a reinforcing rubber 6 arranged inside a sidewall portion 2 and having a crescent form at its cross section, in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070113942 - Manufacturing method of rubber member for tire, and pneumatic tire: A manufacturing method of a rubber member for a tire includes a winding step in which a rubber strip is spirally winding and overlapping around a surface of a to-be wound body, thereby forming a tire rubber member around which the rubber strip is overlapped. A purality of air-vent grooves... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113943 - Tool-free tire traction device: A traction device for vehicle tires is provided for when the vehicle is stuck in mud, snow, ice or similar terrain, comprising an adjustable support member having a first end and a second end; a connection member extending from the first end of the support member, wherein the connection member... Agent: Warner J Delaune Jr Adams And Reese LLP

20070113944 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a bead core disposed in each bead portion, a carcass comprising a ply of carcass cords extending between the bead portions through the tread portion and sidewall portions and turned up around the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113945 - Run-flat system comprising self-inflating cells: Closed cellular elements (1) intended for use on the inside of an assembly (E) formed of a wheel with a rim (J) provided with an inflation valve (V), on which is mounted a tire (P), the said cellular elements (1) having walls formed from thin, flexible sheets (11, 12) impermeable... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070113946 - Heavy duty radial tire: A heavy duty tire having improved resistances to uneven wear and cracking at groove bottom without impairing durability, comprising a belt layer having first and third plies of cords arranged at an angle of 10 to 45° relative to the tire equator, a second ply of cords arranged at an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113947 - Tire with turned down ply construction: A tire having an outside-in ply construction is provided which torques the tire bead into the rim of the wheel to which it is mounted. The tire has first and second axially-spaced bead cores, a carcass having at least one belt extending under a tread, and a first ply layer... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070107822 - Tire pressure maintenance device: A device is provided for maintaining a desired inflation pressure within a tire mounted on a wheel of a vehicle. The device includes a microcompressor and a magnetic element. The compressor is mounted on the wheel and is in fluid communication with the atmosphere and the tire. The magnetic element... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070107823 - Enforcement structure for valve of tires: A reinforcement structure for a valve of tires includes a tube having a hole defined through a wall thereof and an enlarged base of a valve is connected to the hole. A rubber made reinforcement pad is mounted on the base and connected to the tube wherein a length of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070107824 - Rubber formulation with adhesive-compatible surface: A method of effecting an improved adhesive bond between a rubber surface and a device adhered thereto is disclosed. In pneumatic tires, monitoring devices are more securely adhered to the innerliner of the tire utilizing a room temperature vulcanizable adhesive wherein curing is facilitated in the presence of moisture. The... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070102084 - Tire tread: The tread of a tire designed particularly to run on snowy, icy or wet surfaces. The tread comprises elements in relief (e.g., blocks or ribs), each having a running face and lateral faces. At least one element in relief is provided with an incision defined along a mean plane. The... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070102085 - Pneumatic tire: The invention provides a pneumatic tire which can increase a driving performance on a road surface of a so-called sherbet snow, and in which a biased wear such as a toe-and-heel wear or the like is hard to be generated. In a pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern having... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070102083 - Tire for motorcycle and method for manufacturing the same: A motorcycle tire having a tread rubber G composed of a pair of shoulder rubber portions Gs located on both tread edge Te sides and a central rubber portion Gc located between them, wherein each shoulder rubber portion Gs has an axial width Ws of ¼ to ⅜ time the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070102086 - Air bladder for safety tire: An air bladder 2 for a safety tire can be produced while maintaining the high productivity because a curve of tensile force to an elongation reaching to an elongation of 50% has a hook shape changing from a sharp linear form in the vicinity of an elongation of 5% to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070102087 - Run-flat tire support and manufacturing method for the same: A manufacturing method for annular run-flat tire support which has a supporting part and a leg part, and which, at the time of run-flat running, is capable of carrying load, comprises the steps of supplying said supporting part and said leg part, applying a bonding agent including a chemical conversion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070102088 - Pneumatic tire, method for producing the same and cushion rubber used in the tire: A pneumatic tire 1 having improved uniformity and durability and including a toroidal carcass 6 extending from a tread portion 2 to each of bead cores 5 in bead portions 4 through sidewall portions 3, a belt layer 7 disposed radially outward of the carcass 6 in the tread portion... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070102089 - Pneumatic tire for motorcycle: A tire 2 comprises a tread 4, a sidewall 6, a bead 8, a carcass 10 and a belt 12. The belt 12 includes a belt ply 26. The belt ply 26 is formed by a ribbon 28 wound spirally in a circumferential direction of the tire 2. The carcass... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070102090 - Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire in which formation of a belt layer is realized by using an integer number of strip pieces and without causing any overlap between the strip pieces, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method is a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire provided with... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070102091 - Heavy duty tire: A heavy duty tire having a bead wind structure and comprising a bead reinforcing layer 15 having a U-shaped cross section disposed in each bead portion 4, wherein the axially outer portion 15o of the bead reinforcing layer 15 and its radially outer end Pe are protected by an axially... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070095446 - Tyre revolution counter: A pneumatic tyre includes a sensor device for monitoring one or more dynamic parameters of the tyre and a detecting device. The sensor device is disposed in a crown portion of the tyre and includes an inertial switch. The inertial switch changes from a first state to a second state... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070095447 - Pneumatic tire tread: A pneumatic tire tread has tread elements formed by circumferential and/or lateral grooves. At least one tread element has a sipe that devolves from a constant width sipe having a three dimensional aspect in at least a portion of the radially outer portion of the sipe to a wider width... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Patent & Trademark Department - D/823

20070095448 - Anti-skid spike: An anti-skid spike which may be applied to an embedded opening on a running surface of, for example, a tire, having an insert piece and a base body with a molded flange and a recess for housing the insert piece. According to this invention, material and shape combinations not previously... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070095449 - Tire for motorcycle: A tire 2 comprises a tread 4, a pair of sidewalls 6 extended almost inward in a radial direction from an end 18 of the tread 4, a pair of bead cores 8 positioned on an inside in the radial direction of the sidewalls 6, and a carcass 10 laid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070095450 - Pneumatic tire: A belt-reinforcing layer 8a is made up of a composite cord formed by twisting a high-modulus fiber and a low-modulus fiber together. A stress-strain curve of the composite cord preferably has an inflection point between a low-modulus region, and a high-modulus region, set to fall in a range of 2... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC