Resilient tires and wheels inventions 03/08

20080073009 - Safety tire, method of making and method of improved traffic safety with use thereof: A tire in which a tire manufacturer has determined the tractive capacity at numerous levels of tread wear, the tire having at least one visual warning indicator located at a tread depth corresponding to a percentage loss of tractive capacity. Also, a method of making the tire and a method... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080073011 - Pneumatic tire: It is a subject to suitably decrease the rigidity of blocks, to generate suitable collapsing of the blocks, to sufficiently exhibit edge effects of sipes, and to improve braking performances and the like in the medium term of wear and thereafter; and for solving this subject, in a pneumatic tire... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080073012 - Pneumatic tire for traveling on off road: In a pneumatic tire for traveling on an off road, including a tread pattern in which a plurality of blocks are formed by at least three vertical grooves extending along a tire circumferential direction and a lateral groove intersecting the vertical grooves, each of the lateral groove arranged among the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080073010 - Alerting structure for an abrasion of tire: At least one alerting layer of a different color than a tire surface is divided into a rubber layer of the tire, in accordance with a safe abrasion condition of the tire, wherein a default distance of a lowest alerting layer to the tire surface is less than a depth... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080073013 - Air bladder for safety tire: There is provided an air bladder for a safety tire in which an air-impermeable layer is optimized to reduce an incidence of manufacturing defects. A hollow toric air bladder 1 is accommodated in a tire 2 and filled with air at an internal pressure determined in relation to the given... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080073014 - Non-pneumatic tire: The non-pneumatic tire has a rim member 1, a ring member 3 disposed at an outer circumferential side of the rim member 1 and provided with a tread 2 on a circumferential face, and a plurality of link mechanisms 4 coupling the rim member with the ring member. Each of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080073015 - Method and arrangement for increasing safety when handling a wheel: A Method and an arrangement for increasing safety when handling a wheel. The method comprises locking a fastening bolt of the rim in the vicinity of a wheel valve in place with a locking device. The arrangement comprises a locking device which locks at least one fastening bolt in the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080073016 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic having a porous member mounted on an inner surface facing a cavity of the tire. The porous member has ends located on front and back sides thereof in the rotation direction of the tire. At least the back end has corners located on opposite sides thereof in the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080073017 - Run-flat system comprising a foam support ring mounted to a rim by securing strips: A wheel includes a rim including seats configured to accept the beads of a tire. The tire is intended to be used with a cellular rubber support ring of substantially toroidal shape which allows for running in the deflated state. The rim has a groove, intended to accept the support... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080073018 - Camouflage or otherwise multicolored tire: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire including an elastomeric veneer disposed on at least one exterior surface of the tire, the elastomeric veneer including at least two partially co-blended colored rubber compositions wherein the at least two colored rubber compositions are of different colors, the elastomeric veneer... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080066841 - Pneumatic tire with tie bars: A tire tread (1) includes tie bars (13,14,15,16) in its secondary grooves (9,10,11,12). These tie bars (13,14,15,16) are rounded and taper off on their sides so that the contour of such a tie bar (13,14,15,16) in cross-section along a groove (9,10,11,12) constitutes a continuous curve without edges or straight lines.... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080066838 - Carbon black-rich rubber composition containing particulate hydrophylic water absorbing polymer and tire with tread thereof: This invention relates to a rubber composition which contains a dispersion of a particulate hydrophilic water absorbing polymer and tire with a tread thereof.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080066839 - Tire with tread having an outer cap layer and underlying transition layer containing at least one of depolymerized rubber, pre-cured rubber and coal dust: The invention relates to a tire having a lug and groove configured rubber tread having an outer rubber cap layer with a running surface and an underlying specialized transition rubber layer. The transition rubber layer is specialized in a sense of containing at least one of partially depolymerized rubber, particulate... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080066840 - Tire with tread having an outer cap layer and underlying transition layer containing corncob granules: The invention relates to a tire having a lug and groove configured rubber tread having an outer rubber cap layer with a running surface and an underlying specialized transition rubber layer. The transition layer rubber is specialized in a sense of containing corncob granules. In one embodiment, the transition layer... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080066842 - Run flat tire insert system: A tire insert system for assembly into a continuous ring during its positioning within a tire, and is supported on a wheel web between the wheel flanges where the continuous tire insert ring is mounted to the wheel to support a tire load for a significant travel distance should that... Agent: M. Reid Russell

20080066844 - Steel cord for reinforcing rubber article, and pneumatic tire: The steel cord comprises a core made by parallelly arranging two non-twisted core wires (1) from one layer of sheath made by twisting three to five sheath wires (2) around the core. The outline shape of the cord in a cross-section orthogonal to the axis of the cord is flat... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080066843 - Tire and metal/rubber composite therefor: Tire comprising a crown surmounted by a tread, a crown reinforcement, two sidewalls and two beads, a carcass reinforcement passing into the two sidewalls and anchored in the two beads. The anchoring is accomplished, in at least one bead, by a circumferential alignment of at least one anchoring reinforcing member... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080066845 - Pneumatic tire: This invention relates to a pneumatic tire comprising a pair of bead portions (1), a pair of sidewall portions (2), a tread portion (3) continuing to both the sidewall portions (2), a carcass (4) composed of one or more carcass plies toroidally extending between the pair of bead portions and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080066846 - Motor vehicle pneumatic tire: Vehicle pneumatic tire with a carcass, in particular of radial construction, with sidewalls and with a tread rubber (1), whereby a moiré-free pattern is arranged in a first surface area of a sidewall rubber strip (7), which pattern is formed by one or more linear families of curves, and a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080060732 - Tire: An improved tire provides an air-flow restrictor that may be installed inside a tire. The air-flow restrictor may restrict or prevent the flow of air in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the tire. Also, a method for saving fuel by inserting or retrofitting tires with air... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080060733 - Tire with quadrangular studs: Described herein are several embodiments of an anti-skid stud for insertion into the rubber tread of an air-filled vehicle tire. The stud can include a body that has a bottom flange, a shank element that extends outwardly from the bottom flange, and a hard cermet piece made from a material... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080060734 - Device for discharging air and/or tire sealant: A device discharges air and/or a tire sealant from a container into a tire of a vehicle of any type. The container is associated with a piston element for discharging the tire sealant.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080060735 - C-shaped inner tube for tires: The present invention features a C-shaped inner tube for use with a pneumatic tire; the C-shaped inner tube comprises a hermetically sealed compartment comprising a first sealed termination and a second sealed termination and a threaded stem valve disposed on a surface of the hermetically sealed compartment located at a... Agent: Quan L. Nguyen Nguyen & Wimier, PLLC

20080060736 - Run-flat support body and tire/wheel assembly: The present invention provides a run-flat support body and a tire/wheel assembly whose weights can be respectively reduced. The run-flat support body includes an annular shell and elastic rings, the annular shell having an outer peripheral side as a support surface and an inner peripheral side formed in fork-shaped open... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080060737 - Tire for heavy loading vehicles: Provided is a tire for heavy loading vehicles which is improved in an adhesion durability of a carcass ply layer to a large extent while maintaining a fracture resistance and a low heat generating property of a cushion rubber. The above tire is a tire for heavy loading vehicles which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080060738 - Pneumatic radial tire for light truck: Provided is a pneumatic radial tire for a light truck which is designed to improve the contact shape, to suppress the growth and strain of a belt edge portion due to the creep strain of a carcass layer, and to prevent the separation failure at the belt edge portion. The... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080053582 - Pneumatic tire and method of mounting transponder to pneumatic tire: In a pneumatic tire (20) on which a transponder (1) is mounted, a securing member (3) for securing the transponder (1) is fixed to an inner surface of the tire in an area (S) between a tire maximum-width position (A) and a bead toe (B). Thereby, a large centrifugal force... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080053583 - Radial passenger tire with improved tread contour: A pneumatic radial ply passenger tire (10) having a tread (20), a casing with two sidewalls (14, 16), one or more radial plies (18) extending from and wrapped about two annular beads (13) and a belt reinforcement structure (15) located radially between the tread and the plies. The tread has... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080053584 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern on which a plurality of blocks are formed with three circumferential grooves which extend along a circumferential direction of the tire and lateral grooves which traverse the circumferential grooves, wherein the lateral groove disposed between the circumferential grooves has a depth that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080053585 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern on which a plurality of blocks are formed with circumferential grooves which extend along a circumferential direction of the tire and lateral grooves which traverse the circumferential grooves, wherein the lateral groove disposed between the blocks on the endmost tread edge region... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080053586 - Non-pneumatic tire: [Solving Means] Provided is a non-pneumatic tire including a spoke structure (5) and a tread ring (11). The spoke structure (5) includes a cylindrical outer member (2) and a cylindrical inner member (3) which are concentrically arranged, and which are connected to each other with a plurality of fins (4,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080053587 - Energy saving improved tire: An improved tire provides an air-flow restrictor that may be installed inside a tire. The air-flow restrictor may restrict or prevent the flow of air in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the tire. Also, a method for saving fuel by inserting or retrofitting tires with air... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP. Intellectual Property Department

20080053588 - Pneumatic tire provided with temperature-sensitive color-changing part: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire provided with a temperature-sensitive color-changing rubber part formed through vulcanization of a rubber composition that comprises a rubber component, and temperature-sensitive color-changing microcapsules with, as encapsulated therein, a temperature-sensitive color-changing component of which the color may reversibly change with temperature change, and that is obtained... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.