Resilient tires and wheels inventions 06/07

20070144639 - Monitoring system of the inner state of tires and a method for operating the system: A casing device for installing a TPMS wireless transmitter in a wheel of an automobile's tire has a lower case and an upper case, wherein the lower case adheres to the outer surface of the wheel and has the same curved surface as the wheel and the upper case includes... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070144640 - Tire with sacrificial strip for correcting dynamic imbalance: A tire comprising a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls is provided wherein the sidewalls are connected to the tread portion by shoulder regions, wherein the tire further include one or more strips of rubber affixed to the inner surface of a green tire. The strip may be annular... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Patent & Trademark Department - D/823

20070144641 - Method of forming a tire: A method of forming a tire includes a) forming a carcass, the carcass comprising at least one carcass reinforcing ply, a pair of opposing sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions, b) placing a belt structure on the carcass, c) forming a tread stock, d) placing the tread stock on... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070144644 - Pneumatic tire: This invention relates to a pneumatic rubber tire having a tread of a cap/base layered construction wherein said tire contains a first component as a tread cap layer having a running surface and at least two additional tire rubber components, wherein said tire components are comprised of rubber compositions which... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070144642 - Heavy duty tire with silica-rich polyisoprene rubber based intermediate transition layer: Field of the invention This invention relates to a heavy duty tire (e.g. heavy duty truck tire) designed for a load bearing capacity of at least 4,000 pounds (1814 kg) with a tread of a cap/base construction with at least one underlying silica-rich, cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber based intermediate transition rubber... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070144643 - Speckled tire treads: The present invention is directed towards speckled tire treads for tires. Specifically, the speckled tire tread includes a primary tread compound that serves as a matrix in which is distributed discrete particles of one or more secondary tread compounds, at least one of the compounds is a different color than... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070144645 - Two-piece tire: e

20070144646 - Tire traction enhancement system and method of use: A tire traction enhancement system and method of use are provided. In one form, a tire traction enhancement system includes a standard vehicle tire including perforations along the standard vehicle tire tread. The tire traction enhancement system further includes a first annular inner tube running substantially the inner circumference of... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070144647 - Assembly of tire and rim, and tire: An assembly of a tire and a rim, wherein the internal pressure of the tire acts so as to increase a belt tension at a belt layer (30) since the internal pressure directs to the outer radial direction of the tire at an increased width part (12) and, since the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070144648 - Steel cord for reinforcement of off-the-road tires: A steel cord, formed of a plurality of steel filaments, has a construction of N×(7×2) wherein N=1 to 7 and within the circumference of the cross-sectional area, not more than 60% of the cord area is comprised of the steel filaments. The steel cord has an elongation at break of... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070144649 - Overlay configuration for a tire: A tire comprising a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls wherein the sidewalls are connected to the tread portion by shoulder regions, and wherein the tire further includes one or more strips of rubber affixed to the inner surface of a green tire. The strip may be annular and... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070144650 - Heavy duty tire: The heavy duty tire comprises a belt layer 7 comprised of at least three belt plies outside of a carcass 6 in a radial direction. Belt cords of a first belt ply 7A disposed innermost in the radial direction incline at an angle of 45 to 55 degrees with respect... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070144651 - Tension-exerted hoop for plastic and rubber articles: A tension-exerted hoop for plastic and rubber articles comprises a tension-exerted (lock) hoop made up of a plurality of flexible wires wound into a hoop-shaped configuration wherein the flexible wires are respectively twined and bundled up via multiple thin filaments into identical-diameter wires each having a combining coarse surface defined... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070131324 - Pneumatic tire: In a pneumatic tire having excellent drainage property and performances on snow, a central main groove 2 and a side main groove 4 and first and second gently slant grooves 5, 6 are arranged in a tread portion 1, and the first and second gently slant grooves 5, 6 are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070131325 - Slip-preventing device for vehicle tire: A slip-preventing device has plural sets of arm frames for a tire. Each set of the arm frames has a pair of crossing components, an inner side component and a pair of outer side components. Each pair of the crossing components is bent closely on the tread of the tire... Agent: Kouichi Sakakibara

20070131328 - Assembly of pneumatic tire and rim: A pneumatic tire and rim assembly is provided in the cavity with a noise damper in which a sponge material extending in a circumferential direction of the tire and having a volume v2 of 0.4 to 20% of entire volume v1 of the cavity, wherein the noise damper comprises a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070131326 - Pneumatic tire and noise damper assembly: A pneumatic tire and noise damper assembly comprises a pneumatic tire manufactured by vulcanization using an expandable bladder for molding an inner surface of the tire, the bladder with at least one vent groove extending on its outer surface, the inner surface of the tire being provided with at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070131327 - Pneumatic tire and noise damper assembly: A pneumatic tire and noise damper assembly comprises a pneumatic tire, a noise damper being attached to an inner surface of the tire and extending in the circumferential direction of the tire, and a protective cover being detachably attached to the tire and protecting the noise damper from ultraviolet rays... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070131329 - Runflat tire: A runflat tire having an improved runflat durability and including sidewall-reinforcing rubber layer 10 having a crescent-shaped cross section disposed axially inward of carcass 6 in sidewall portion 3, wherein the carcass 6 comprises at least one carcass ply 6A in which carcass cords made of an aramid fiber or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070131330 - Runflat tire: A runflat tire having an improved ride comfort performance without impairing the runflat durability, and comprising a carcass 6 and sidewall-reinforcing rubber layers 9 having a crescent-shaped cross section disposed axially inward of carcass 6 in sidewall portion 3, wherein each sidewall-reinforcing rubber layer 9 comprises at least a radially... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070131332 - Pneumatic tire with monofilament reinforcement: A pneumatic tire comprising a carcass structure having at least one carcass ply of reinforcing cords extending between a pair of opposing bead portions, a belt structure having at least two plies of parallel cords radially outward of the carcass structure, and a tread radially outward of the belt structure.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070131331 - Tire assembly with high elongation cable belt: high elongation cable and a tire having a tread belt with an extensible reinforcing cable is provided. The high elongation cable has a 3×7×m or a 4×7×m construction, wherein m is comprised of at least two layers, wherein the outermost layer is comprised of a plurality of twisted filaments, said... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070131333 - Tire with turned down ply construction: The tire includes a first and second axially-spaced bead core, a carcass having at least one belt extending under a tread, and a first ply layer having first and second ends, a first end is located axially outside and adjacent a first bead core, and a second end that is... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070131334 - Pneumatic tire: e

20070125466 - Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing same: A plurality of conductive rubber members each having an electric resistance value lower than that of a tread rubber body is embedded in the tread rubber body from a peripheral surface of the tread rubber body at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of a pneumatic tire. An outer end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070125467 - Tread for heavy-vehicle tire: A tread (1) comprising a plurality of grooves of longitudinal and transverse general orientation (2b, 2c, 31, 32), the grooves of longitudinal orientation comprising main grooves (2b, 2c) of depth G and secondary grooves (31, 32) of depth G′ less than the depth G of the main grooves, the central... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070125468 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic radial tire has a carcass and a tread. The carcass has at least one carcass reinforcing ply and opposing bead portions. Each bead portion has a bead core and a bead apex radially. The apexes in each bead portion having the same radial height (HA), as measured from... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070125469 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic radial tire has a carcass and a tread. The carcass has at least one carcass reinforcing ply and opposing bead portions. Each bead portion has a bead core and a bead apex radially. The apexes in each bead portion having the same radial height (HA), as measured from... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070125470 - Inner tube apparatus and method of use: An inner tube apparatus and method of use are provided. In one form, an inner tube apparatus includes a hermetically sealed annular compartment including an inner wall, an outer wall, a wall thickness, a diameter, a first sealed termination, and a second sealed termination. The annular compartment includes a threaded... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070125471 - Split cord geodesic configurations for a tire: A cord ply construction for a tire is provided formed by a series of spaced single line cord paths, each extending along a path from an originating side of the tire across the crown region to an opposite terminal tire side, the cord paths each creating a loop at the... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823