Resilient tires and wheels inventions 05/08

20080121323 - Vehicle tyre: The invention relates to a low-function vehicle tyre for driving training and to a method of producing a tyre. The tyke is characterized in that the contact surface of the tyre is a low-friction contact surface comprising grip-weakening material for enabling winter driving training.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080121324 - Tire running thread: e

20080121325 - Transverse tread groove profile:

20080121326 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire of the invention includes: a stepped-shaped raised area provided in the main groove positioned at a center area of the tire so as to be continued circumferentially of the tire, connected to either the main groove walls, and raised from the groove bottom; and a ridge lower... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080121327 - Polyester fiber cord for reinforcing rubber and method for production thereof: A polyester fiber cord for reinforcing rubber, characterized in that it is a polyester fiber cord for reinforcing rubber having inner and outer adhesive layers and the inner layer portion of said adhesive layers consists of a resin layer containing a gas barrier resin of which oxygen permeation rate measured... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20080121328 - Sealing material, tire for a vehicle wheel including the sealing material, and process for producing the tyre: A sealing material includes the following characteristics: a value of a dynamic elastic modulus, measured at a temperature of 80° C., at a frequency of 1 Hz, and with a deformation of 5%, that is at least 60% lower than a value of the dynamic elastic modulus measured at the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080121329 - Pneumatic tire: A carcass layer (4) is provided, in which a plurality of cords folded so as to be wound around an annular bead core (2) are coated with rubber. On an outside of this carcass layer (4), a wire chafer (7) in which a plurality of cords are coated with rubber... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080121330 - Rubber composition: A rubber composition containing (A) 100 parts by mass of a rubber component containing 30 parts by mass or more of a diene-based rubber, (B) 0.1 to 1.0 parts by mass of dithiosalicylic acid and (C) 0.05 to 0.5 part by mass, in terms of a metal content of an... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080115867 - Glycerin vehicle tire ballast: A non-toxic, non-flammable, non-corrosive, bio-gradable tire ballast disclosed herein that comprises an aqueous composition containing 40% to 70% glycerin (w/v) with a relatively low freezing point (minus 38 degrees F.). The composition weighs 9.5 to 11 pounds per gallon and has a low freezing point (below, minus 38 degrees F.)... Agent: Dean A. Craine

20080115870 - Pneumatic tire: A sipe inner wall surface of a sipe is provided with a wavy first concave and convex row, a wavy second concave and convex row arranged in a sipe bottom side from the first concave and convex row so as to be spaced, and structured such that a wavelength is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080115868 - 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

20080115869 - Tread pattern which provides improved traction with reduced vibration generation: The invention provides a tread pattern which is required to have traction with respect to the ground and which suppresses generation of vibration during traveling of a vehicle, and provides a tread pattern which provides traction and reduced vibration regardless of expected usage conditions or under usage conditions that are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080115871 - Tire having a sidewall component containing a dispersion of adhesive coated short carbon fiber reinforcement: A tire having a sidewall component containing a dispersion of adhesive coated short carbon fiber reinforcement. Such sidewall component is comprised of at least one of an annular outer rubber layer and an annular sidewall internal rubber insert.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080115872 - Butyl rubber which contains organoperoxide and isobutyene adsorbing activated carbon, pneumatic tire with built-in sealant and method: The present invention relates to a composition comprised of butyl rubber, organoperoxide and isobutylene-adsorbing activated carbon; a composition comprised of organoperoxide-depolymerized butyl rubber which contains a dispersion therein of particulate isobutylene adsorbing activated carbon filler and pneumatic tire with a built-in sealant layer comprised of said depolymerized butyl rubber. The... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080115873 - Heavy vehicle tire: The invention relates to a tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one layer to the other, forming with the circumferential direction angles of between 10° and 45°, which itself is topped... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080115874 - Tire with apex containing in-situ resin and rubber with pendant hydroxyl groups: wherein X is hydrogen or an alkyl having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, the group —CH2OX and their condensation products.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080110541 - Pneumatic tire for off-road traveling: A pneumatic tire having an improved off-road traveling performance, which has a block pattern that a plurality of blocks 7 are provided in a tread portion, in which each of the blocks 7 includes a tread surface 9 facing radially outward and a wall surface 10 extending radially inwardly from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080110539 - Reduced noise pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has a tread extending along the circumferential length of the tire. The tread is divided into at least two different regions across the width of the tread, and has a plurality of tread elements. Each tread element has a pitch length as measured along the circumferential length... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080110542 - Off-road tire: An off-road tire (1) comprises a tread portion (2) provided with blocks (10, 11) forming a sea area (8) therearound. The sea area (8) is provided in the bottom (14) thereof with recesses (13), wherein the recesses (13) are arranged circumferentially of the tire and each extend axially of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080110540 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has a tread with the radially outermost surface of the tread defining a circumferential length of the tire. The tread has a circumferentially extending groove. The circumferentially extending groove has repeating segments wherein the circumferential length of each repeating segment is at least 6.25% of the tire... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080110543 - Pneumatic radial tire with water-splash control rib: With such a structure, the present invention will increase the rigidity of the rib, decrease the size and the weight of the rib without lowering the efficiency of the water-splash control, and prevent loss of heat radiation and durability and at the same time, improve safety while driving compared to... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080110544 - Rubber composition for side wall and pneumatic tire: A rubber composition for a side wall contains 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber component, from 30 to 70 parts by weight of a reinforcing filler, and from 2 to 20 parts by weight of a liquid polymer having a number average molecular weight of from 3,000 to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080110545 - Radial tire for construction vehicle: A radial tire 10 is provided with a steel belt layer 14 at the tire radial outer side of a steel radial carcass 12. The steel belt layer 14 includes two reinforcement belts 18, two main cross belts 20, and two protective belts 22 in this order. The steel cords... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080105344 - Tire having an illuminated sidewall: An electro-luminescent device is affixed to a tire sidewall and powered by a power source affixed to the wheel or tire. Wire(s) within the device in a preferred configuration emit a light in one or more colors in response to energization by the power source. The electro-luminescent display may be... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080105345 - Tire having an improved sidewall illumination system: An optical fiber device is affixed to a tire sidewall and powered by a light source affixed to the wheel or tire. Optical fiber cable(s) within the device in a preferred configuration emit a light in one or more colors in response to light signals from the light source. The... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080105347 - Pneumatic tire: A tread surface is formed from a center arc, a shoulder-side arc, and a shoulder arc, in such a manner that K1=L1/(TDW×0.5) satisfies 0.6≦K1≦0.8, where L1 is an outline area that is a width from an equatorial plane to the end of the center arc and TDW is a tread... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080105348 - Tire including concave recesses in a circumferential tread: A tire having an equatorial plane and a circumferential tread is provided. The tread includes at least one recess defined by at least one concave surface having a plurality of sipes formed therein. Optionally, the at least one concave surface can include one or more channel disposed therein.... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080105349 - Pneumatic tire: The present invention has an object to improve snow/ice performance, wet performance, and wear resistance of a pneumatic tire. The present invention provides a pneumatic tire which includes, in a tread, at least two circumferential grooves extending along a tire circumferential direction, a plurality of lug grooves extending in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080105346 - Tire: In order to solve the various conventional problems described above, the present invention provides a tire which is excellent in a braking property and a drivability (WET performance) on a wet road surface and which sufficiently displays an edge effect or a spike effect and is excellent in an on-ice... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080105350 - Air no air elastomeric tire: An elastomeric tire for mounting onto a rim that is manufactured by casting or molding methods to include an exterior arch shaped cavity that is centered under and is below the tire tread to have at least one hundred forty (140) degrees and not more than one hundred seventy (170)... Agent: M. Reid Russell

20080105351 - Extended-mobility tire with lowered anchoring zone: Extended-mobility tire includes at least one carcass-type reinforcement structure, with each of the tire's sidewalls being reinforced by a sidewall insert. Each bead of the tire includes an anchoring zone permitting the reinforcement structure to be held on a rim and including an anchoring rubber mix with a series of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080105352 - Reduced weight aircraft tire: A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure wherein the belt reinforcing structure is a composite belt structure having at least one radially inner spiral layer and at least one zigzag belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of said spiral layer. The zigzag belt width is preferably... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080105353 - Pneumatic tire provided with a multi-layered tread and process for its manufacture: A pneumatic tire includes a carcass structure, at least one annular reinforcing structure, a tread band, a belt structure, and axially opposite sidewalls. The tread band includes at least one radially inner layer and a radially outer layer. The at least one radially inner layer includes a first modulus of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080099115 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having improved wear resistance, especially improved uneven wear resistance (such as river wear), is offered. The tire that is a rib-pattern tire has five ribs extending circumferentially of the tire. The ribs include a center rib and intermediate ribs located on the opposite sides of the center... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080099114 - Manufacturing method of a piece in a tire mold for molding: The manufactured pieces are the ones both end surfaces thereof in the tire circumferential direction are cut from the pieces before cutting 1 and the pieces before cutting 1 have the cutting regions whose cross-sectional shapes in the tire width direction are the same at both ends of its circumferential... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080099116 - Low noise pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire including a single or a plurality of noise absorbing members formed of a porous material attached to one side of surfaces of an elastic band in the longitudinal direction thereof, and also disposed on the tire inner peripheral surface by using the elastic band along... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080099117 - Low noise pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a low noise pneumatic tire in which a plurality of noise absorbing members of a porous material are attached to the tire inner peripheral surface with intervals in the tire circumferential direction. The number of the noise absorbing members is from 5 to 50. The total length obtained... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080099118 - Pneumatic radial tire for passenger car: s

20080099119 - Self-sealing tire: A self-sealing tire includes a tire body, a partition wall, and a sealant that is adapted to seal a puncture in the tire body. The tire body includes an outer circumferential wall that contacts the ground, a first side wall and a second side wall that extend from the outer... Agent: Park Law Firm