Resilient tires and wheels inventions 11/07

20070272336 - Supporter for run-flat tire and pneumatic run-flat tire using the same: Provided is an annular supporter for a run-flat tire which comprises a supporting part and a leg part and which can support a load in run-flat running, wherein the leg part comprises a rubber composition comprising a rubber component which contains 60 mass parts or more of a conjugate diene... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070272337 - Pneumatic tire with tread siping: A tire having a tread has at least one tread element with a multi-dimensional sipe formed in the tread element. The sipe has a width W, a depth Ds, and an effective length Le. The sipe has a first radially outermost portion with a constant effective length Le, a second... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070272339 - Reinforced silica/elastomer composite: This invention is based upon the discovery that elongated silica has superior characteristics for reinforcing rubbery elastomers as compared to conventional silica. More specifically, elongated silica provides a higher level of reinforcement for elastomers at the same level of loading. Accordingly, elongated silica can be employed to attain an equivalent... Agent: Alvin T. Rockhill Patent Attorney

20070272338 - Tire and crosslinkable elastomeric composition: Tire having at least one structural element including a crosslinked elastomeric material obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable elastomeric composition containing (a) 100 phr of at least one diene elastomeric polymer; (b) 1 phr to 50 phr, preferably 2 phr to 40 phr, and more preferably 5 phr to 30 phr,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070267115 - Pneumatic tire with decoupling groove: P

20070267116 - Non-pneumatic tire: A structurally supported tire includes a ground contacting tread portion, a reinforced annular band disposed radially inward of the tread portion, and a plurality of web spokes extending transversely across and radially inward from the reinforced annular band and anchored in a wheel or hub. The reinforced annular band comprises... Agent: Michelin North America, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070267117 - 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 members are comprised of at least two types of rubber differing at least at the vicinity of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070267118 - Multi-layered veneer for a tire sidewall: A multi-layered veneer for a tire sidewall is disclosed wherein one or more layers of the veneer include at least one pigment to provide a desired visual effect for the tire sidewall. In one embodiment, the multi-layered veneer includes a tie layer and a first thermoplastic layer bonded to the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070267119 - Tire with cap ply layer: A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a leno weave tape having warp yarn in the longitudinal direction and weft yarns in the... Agent: Jeffery E. Bacon Milliken & Company

20070261773 - Aircraft pneumatic tire: P

20070261774 - Tyre for vehicles, in particular motor vehicles: A tyre (3) for vehicles which does not require pressurisation by means of a pressurised fluid has a tread (16), two sidewalls (15), and two beads (8) which are attached to a wheel rim (2) made of elastomer material, and is provided with at least one tubular reinforcement body (18)... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook C/o Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20070256769 - Pneumatic sealing ring having an inner tube and expandable liner for a tube-type tire: A tube-type tire to be mounted on the rim of a (e.g., spoke-type) wheel such as that commonly used by a bicycle or a motorcycle, whereby the tube-type tire will operate without a conventional inner tube and as if it were tubeless. The tire includes a main tire section that... Agent: Law Offices Of Morland C Fischer

20070256770 - Run flat tire and method of manufacturing run flat tire: In a run flat tire provided with a pair of bead sections (1) each having an annular bead (1a), side wall sections (2) respectively extending to an outer side in a tire diametrical direction from the bead sections (1), a carcass layer (4) constituted by a carcass ply (14) wound... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070256771 - Tire having sidewall with integral colored marking composite: This invention relates to a tire with a rubber sidewall having at least one layered rubber composite integral with a portion of its outer surface as a means of visibly identifying the tire. The layered composite is an integral composite in a sense of being comprised of a base rubber... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070256772 - Tire for heavy vehicles: The invention relates to a tire P comprising a radial carcass reinforcement radially surmounted by a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown plies formed of metallic reinforcement elements, crossed from one ply to the next, forming angles of between 10 and 45° with the circumferential direction, and... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070251620 - Support for a tire monitoring component, support and monitoring component system, tire and wheel: The invention relates to a support (18) for a component (20) for monitoring a tyre (14), of the type intended to be secured to a wheel (12) and tyre (14) system (16) and comprising means (22) of securing the component (20) in which support the securing means (22) has a... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070251619 - Tire provided with a sensor placed between the carcass ply and the inner liner: Tire comprising an inner liner, at least one carcass ply and a strain sensor, the strain sensor being placed between the carcass ply and the inner liner.... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP Thomas Langer

20070251621 - Vehicle tire, method for estimating adherence properties of a vehicle tire and a vehicle drive assisting method: A tire comprising at least one carcass-type reinforcement structure, formed of reinforcement elements, which is anchored on either side of the tire to a bead the base of which is intended to be mounted on a rim seat, each bead being extended radially towards the outside by a sidewall, the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070251622 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire where the positions of the groove deepest portions (33btm) in the circumferential grooves (33) vary in a predetermined cycle along the circumferential direction in a width direction of the tread within the circumferential grooves (33). Moreover, depth direction positions, where a groove bottom surface of the circumferential... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070251624 - Cellulose dipped cord for rubber reinforcement: p

20070251623 - Cellulose raw cord for rubber reinforcement:

20070251625 - Pneumatic radial tire for two-wheeled motor vehicle: The pneumatic radial tire for motorcycle includes a carcass layer composed of a carcass ply 12 and a spiral belt layer 26 composed of steel cords wound spirally substantially in parallel with each other to a tire equator surface. When the ratio of spacing R1 between adjacent steel cords of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070251626 - Lubrication of run-flat tire system: A lubricant composition for lubricating an interface between an inner surface of a tire and a safety support ring in a run-flat tire system that includes a lubricating agent selected from glycerol, polyalkylene glycol or combinations thereof and a thixotropic agent. The thixotropic agent is an organoclay comprising a mineral... Agent: Michelin North America, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070251627 - Sidewall reinforcing layer for pneumatic tires: A pneumatic tire may include a floating reinforcing layer disposed between a body ply and the sidewall of the tire. The reinforcing layer may extend from a point beneath the rim flange of the wheel to a point just above or below the maximum section width of the tire. By... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC