Resilient tires and wheels inventions 04/08

20080092999 - Pneumatic tire: In the invention, a tread surface is provided with a groove portion including a main groove continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a land portion including a rib or a block separated by the main groove, wherein the land portion includes a first edge portion having a depression... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080093000 - Pneumatic tire: In the pneumatic tire in which not less than three main grooves 1 extending in the tire circumferential direction R are formed and ribs 2 are formed by the main grooves 1, upper edges 11 of the main groove 1 when the tire is new extend in a linear manner... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080093001 - Heavy duty tire: A heavy duty tire comprises: an inner liner of an air-impermeable rubber compound disposed inside a carcass and extending into each bead portion; and a chafer made of a hard rubber compound and comprising a base part, an axially inner part and an axially outer part extending along the bottom... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080093002 - Elastomeric tire: An elastomeric tire formed to contain a core of plies, belts and beads in a cavity of a mold. The core is built on a mandrel portion of an inner mold that is for fitting to an outer mold, forming a cavity containing the core that the elastomeric material is... Agent: M. Reid Russell

20080093003 - Tire with central rubber layer reinforced with micro and/or macro reinforcing fillers to abridge split carcass ply ends: The invention relates to a tire having a split ply carcass member with the ends of the split carcass ply spaced apart in the central crown portion of the tire and a central rubber layer spanning the gap between the split carcass ply ends, wherein said central rubber layer is... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080087361 - Method and device for adapting tires of a means of locomotion to given travel situations: A method for adapting tires (14) of an, in particular, motor-driven means of locomotion to given travel situations, in particular of a passenger car, of a lorry or the like. The shape of at least one tire (14), preferably of a plurality of tires (14) or of all the tires... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080087362 - Motor vehicle pneumatic tyre: Vehicle pneumatic tire includes a carcass having sidewalls and a tread rubber. A sidewall area is covered on an outside by a sidewall rubber strip. A moiré pattern is arranged on the sidewall rubber strip and is formed by a superimposition of at least two linear non-identical families of curves.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080087363 - Pneumatic tire: h

20080087364 - Tire whereof at least one bead seat comprises a rib: Tire having two beads, at least one bead 1 of which has a seat 11 inclined toward the outside, this seat 11 being extended axially and radially to the outside by a lateral part 12, this bead 1 comprising an anchoring device formed from at least one circumferential bead reinforcing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080087365 - Tyre whose crown comprises a plurality of zones formed with a circumferential reinforcing cord: A tire includes a crown reinforcement provided with a cord forming a plurality of circumferential turns, the cord disposed on opposite sides of a median zone of the tire. The circumferential tension of the cord varies axially along the tire. The circumferential tension of the cord on one side of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080083479 - Tire with sidewall insert: P

20080078487 - Pneumatic tire and tire mold: A groove bottom of a circumferential groove formed in a tread surface is provided with a protruding stripe extending along a next ending direction of the circumferential groove. The protruding stripe is provided with a top head portion protruding toward a tire outer circumferential side, and a base portion which... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080078488 - Tire for heavy duty vehicle: It is an object to provide a tire for a heavy duty vehicle whose wear resistance is excellent on both wet and dry road surfaces. One center land portion row 24 that straddles a tire centerline CL is disposed in a center region 26 by forming a pair of circumferential... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080078489 - Pneumatic tire, process for producing the same, and rubber composition for sealant: Disclosed are a pneumatic tire, which exhibits excellent puncture-preventing function while avoiding inconvenience aroused when a sealant layer is formed based on decomposition reaction of polyisobutylene, a process for producing the same and a sealant rubber composition. This pneumatic tire is provided with the sealant layer in a region of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080078490 - Pneumatic radial tire: A pneumatic radial tire, comprising: a carcass toroidally extending across between a pair of bead cores; an outer side belt layer provided outside of the carcass in a radial direction, in which a plurality of cords extending in a direction inclined with respect to a tire equatorial plane are buried... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC