Resilient tires and wheels inventions 06/08

20080149236 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has a tread with plurality of grooves creating tread elements therein and defining a non-skid tread depth measured from the radially outer surface of the tread to the radially innermost surface of the grooves. Groove voids are located radially inward of the tread surface. The groove voids... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080149237 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has a tread; the tread has a plurality of grooves, creating an initial tread configuration. The grooves and the tread elements formed thereby result in a tread have a net-to-gross ratio in the range of greater than 60%. Due to variations in the depths and variations in... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080149239 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire 1 according to the invention has bead portions 11, 12 including bead cores 11a, 12a, and at least a carcass layer 13 and a tread portion 16 arranged, wherein in a section in a tire-width direction, assuming as a reference a tire centerline CL making right angles... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080149238 - Rubber composition containing a polymer nanoparticle: Provided is a composition comprising a rubber and a polymer nano-particle comprising a poly(mono-vinyl aromatic) core and a poly(mono-vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene) surface layer, wherein the core of the polymeric nano-particle has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of between about 150° C. and about 600° C. Also provided is a composition... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080149240 - Method for curing non-uniform, rubber articles such as tires: A method to cure non-uniform rubber articles uses independently heatable, pin heat transfer elements to provide an efficient and practical means of reducing the total cure time of the article in the mold and optimizing the cure state of the article without substantially changing the function or degrading the performance... Agent: Michelin North America, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080149241 - Pneumatic tire: A plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and a plurality of sub grooves that communicates with the main grooves are formed in a tread portion. A plurality of central land portions is formed in a block shape by the main grooves and the sub grooves, and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080149242 - Pneumatic tire: A tread area is divided into a plurality of lands by a plurality of grooves formed in the tread area. Each of the grooves includes a plurality of protrusions arranged at intervals on a bottom of the groove. The protrusions are lower than the lands from the bottom of the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080149243 - Apparatus and system for integration of a central tire inflation valve into a wheel: This is an apparatus and system for integration of Central Tire Inflation (CTI) valve functionality directly into a wheel. The CTI valve may be attached to the wheel or integrated into the wheel. In addition, the CTI valve may have a valve body or the valve components can be installed... Agent: Steven R. Scott Shlesinger & Fitzsimmons

20080149244 - Connecting assembly for a wireless tire pressure monitoring apparatus: A connecting assembly for a wireless tire pressure monitoring apparatus having a main body formed to be a branch joint with a first tube, a second tube and a third tube, a penetration needle with a first vent hole being positioned at the port of the first tube; an adapter... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080149245 - Pneumatic tire: c

20080149246 - Sheathed thread for fabricating a tire, a tire provided with the sheathed thread, a device for fabricating the sheathed thread, and a method and an installation for fabricating the tire: A sheathed thread comprises a bare thread coated in a rubber sheath. The sheath comprises a plurality of segments spaced apart from one another along the bare thread in such a manner that bare portions of thread alternate with sheathed portions of thread. The device for fabricating the sheathed thread... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080149247 - Run flat device for a motor vehicle, and a wheel assembly incorporating it: According to the invention, the sectors are interconnected by connection means comprising a male member secured to one of the circumferential ends of each sector and removably mounted in a female member formed in the facing end of the adjacent sector, the male member comprising a projection that is terminated... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080149248 - Pneumatic tire: c

20080149249 - Tire with sidewall reinforcement: A pneumatic tire having an impact resistant construction is provided. More specifically, a tire is provided that has increased resistance to travel conditions that can cause pinch shock. Reinforcements of a particular orientation are provided in portions of the tire where pinch shock typically occurs. A range of orientations for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080149250 - Tire with composite ply structure and envelope turnup: A tire and method of building a tire is described wherein the tire has a carcass having a pair of sidewall plies and a bridge ply, each ply being reinforced with cords, the sidewall plies each having a first end which is received between the bridge ply and a belt... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Patent & Trademark Department - D/823

20080142130 - Pneumatic tire: It is an object to improve uneven wear resistance in a tread portion in a pneumatic tire having conductive rubber arranged in a part of the tread portion. Foamed rubber is provided in the tread portion 12 and a foamed rubber conductive layer 14 employing the foamed rubber is arranged... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080142131 - Pneumatic tire:

20080142134 - Farm vehicle tyre: A farm vehicle tyre (1) having a tread (2), which has a toroidal base surface (3), and a number of lugs (5), each extending radially outwards from the base surface (3) and having a front wall (6) and a rear wall (7) with respect to a given rolling direction (8);... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080142135 - Pneumatic tire with decoupling groove: In a tire tread with a decoupling groove (38), the edge (36) of the tread rib (32) adjoining the decoupling groove (38) has a wavy contour. The wavy edge (36) provides protection from step-off wear because erosion at one location is confined to the affected wave. The adjacent edge (44)... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080142132 - Pneumatic vehicle tire with cap/base tread: The invention relates to a vehicle tire, especially utility vehicle tire, comprising a tread which has a tread cap (9) and a tread base (8), both produced from a rubber mixture, and a multilayer ply structure (3, 4, 5, 6) with at least one undertread strip (7, 7′) covering the... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.c.

20080142133 - Pneumatic tire: On a tread surface 1 of a pneumatic tire, at least one circumferential groove is formed on an outer-side region 3 in a vehicle width direction, at least three circumferential, which number is two or more larger than the outer-side region 3, grooves are formed on an inner-side region 2... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080142136 - Foam filled tire: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having its internal cavity filled with a closed cellular rubber contained within the tire cavity by a non-foamed rubber layer.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080142137 - Patch for repairing tires by vulcanization: The invention relates to a patch for repairing tires, hoses and the like by vulcanization comprising at least one cover layer (1) made of a vulcanized rubber material, a joining layer (3) which is made of a rubber material and is laterally projected with respect to said cover layer (1)... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, Llc

20080142138 - Tire sealant containing silica and depolymerized butyl rubber in the presence of organoperoxide and modifier: The present invention relates to a tire puncture sealant and a pneumatic tire containing such puncture sealant. The sealant contains silica reinforcement and butyl rubber depolymerized in the presence of an organoperoxide and modifier comprised of a metal oxide (e.g. magnesium oxide) or a combination of metal oxide modifier and... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080142139 - Pneumatic vehicle tire with reinforced bead construction: A radial pneumatic vehicle tire, in particular a truck tire, includes a carcass insert having at least one ply and reinforcing elements of steel cord or a material of similar strength. The carcass insert is turned back in a bead region about a bead core to form a turn-up. At... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080142140 - Method and apparatus for building a puncture sealant tire: A method and apparatus for making a tire with a built in sealant is provided. The method includes the steps of mounting an inner liner onto a tire building drum, extruding a sealant composition into strips having tapered sidewalls, cutting the strip to a desired length, mounting the sealant over... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080142141 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having an inner liner includes a specified rubber compound on the inner surface of the tire, maintaining air retainability and improved with road noises without deteriorating a rolling resistance or a durability, in which the ratio (E′r/E′p) of the dynamic modulus of elasticity E′r in the axial... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080142142 - Pneumatic run-flat tire: p

20080142143 - Pneumatic tire and production method of the same: A pneumatic tire in which separation of a tread rubber and a side rubber from each other at an interface therebetween can be substantially prevented and separation of the side rubber and a side wall rubber from each other at an interface therebetween can also be substantially prevented. The pneumatic... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080135146 - System and method for balancing a tire and rim assembly: A self-balancing wheel assembly includes a rim, a tire mounted to the rim and defining an inflatable chamber between the rim and the tire, and a valve mounted to the rim for inflating and deflating the tire. The valve includes a housing having a channel therein extending between an outer... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080135147 - Tire and detection-alarm mechanism thereof: A detection-alarm mechanism is provided. The detection-alarm mechanism for a tire includes a sensor, an electronic processing unit, a post-processing unit and a display unit. The sensor includes a substrate disposed in the tire and at least one photoelectronic element fixed to the substrate. If the tire is cracked, light... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20080135149 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire including a plurality of grooves which extend at least in the circumferential direction, and which are formed in a tread portion and sipes which are formed in a plurality of blocks formed by the grooves. In the pneumatic tire, the groove width of the sipe formed in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080135150 - Pneumatic tire: A plurality of shallow grooves which are shallower than a sipe are formed on land sections formed on treads of a pneumatic tire. The shallow grooves are configured so that a total sectional area of the shallow grooves per unit area in a cross section in a tire width direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080135148 - Method for enhancing rubber properties by using bunte salt-treated fiber: p

20080135151 - Tire pressure maintenance device: A device is provided for maintaining a desired inflation pressure within a tire mounted on a wheel of a vehicle. The device includes a microcompressor and a magnetic element. The compressor is mounted on the wheel and is in fluid communication with the atmosphere and the tire. The magnetic element... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080135152 - Pneumatic radial tire: d

20080135153 - Pneumatic tire and tire/rim assembly: In a pneumatic tire 10, partition wall parts 24 that extend inward in a tire radial direction from a tire inside surface 17 of tire shoulder parts 21 and whose tire radial direction inside ends contact a rim 12 are disposed. A pair of right and left reinforcement layers 38... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080135154 - Tire bead facilitating mounting and method for making such a bead:

20080128060 - Rubber composition containing antidegradant and mibk adsorbing activated carbon, and pneumatic tire with component: The present invention relates to a rubber composition containing a diene based elastomer reinforced with rubber reinforcing carbon black and/or silica which contains an antidegradant comprised of N-1,3-dimethylbutyl-N′-phenyl-p-phenylene diamine (6-PPD) together with a dispersion of a methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK)-adsorbing activated carbon. The invention further relates to a tire having... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080128062 - Wear-adaptable running tread: A rubber tread of a tire includes cavities spaced radially inwardly from a running surface of the tread when new. Each cavity includes an incision, and a groove communicating with a radially inner end of the incision when the tread is new. The incision has a radially outer generatrix following... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080128063 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire is provided which can realize an increase in stone-catching resistance while suppressing uneven wear such as river wear in a tread portion. In a pneumatic tire in which a center rib and intermediate ribs which are defined by four straight-line main grooves, which extend continuously in a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080128061 - Pneumatic tire with spiral grooving: The pneumatic tire tread has a radially outermost surface defining a circumferential length of the tire and the tread has at least one circumferentially extending groove. The groove has a spiral configuration across the tread surface and a pair of laterally spaced terminal ends. The circumferential length of the spiral... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Patent & Trademark Department - D/823

20080128064 - Rubber composition containing diene-based elastomer, precipitated silica, coupling agent and alcohol-adsorbing activated carbon and pneumatic tire with component: The present invention relates to a rubber composition comprised of diene based elastomer, precipitated silica, particulate low molecular weight alcohol-adsorbing (e.g. alkanol-adsorbing) activated carbon and coupling agent comprised of at least one of organopolyalkoxysilane polysulfide (e.g organopolyalkoxysilyl polysulfide such as a bis(3-trialkoxysilylalkyl polysulfide) and organoalkoxymercaptosilane. The invention further relates to... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080128065 - Pneumatic tire with oxygen barrier component comprised of a rubber composition containing a dispersion of oxygen-adsorbing activated carbon: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having an oxygen barrier component comprised of a rubber composition which contains a dispersion of oxygen-adsorbing activated carbon. The oxygen barrier component may be an internal or external component of the tire. The oxygen barrier component is intended to retard migration of... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080128066 - Runflat tire: A runflat tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each having a bead core therein, a carcass extending between the bead cores, and a sidewall reinforcing rubber disposed axially inside the carcass in each sidewall portion, wherein each sidewall reinforcing rubber is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch