Resilient tires and wheels inventions 08/08

20080202657 - Arrangement for pressure measurement: In an arrangement for measuring pressure, in particular in gas-filled tyres (1), comprising at least one surface wave sensor (2) with a piezoelectric carrier substrate (3), with at least one exciter electrode (4) and at least one receiver electrode (5) being arranged on at least one surface of the carrier... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080202658 - Studless tire: A studless tire capable of exhibiting excellent performances on both icy road and snow-covered road, including tread portion 2 having a pair of middle circumferential grooves 3b each extending in a region between 15% and 25% of tread width TW from tire equator C to provide crown region CR between... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080202659 - Push in tire valve stem: A tire pressure monitoring assembly includes a sensor secured to a valve stem secured within a wheel rim. The sensor is secured to the valve stem with a push on clip. The valve stem includes two pieces that provide for installation from one side of the wheel rim. The valve... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080202660 - Rubber composition and pneumatic tire using same: A tire sidewall may be formed from a composition including a rubber component and a non-ionic surfactant.... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080196805 - No-flat tire: An insert for a conventional tire. The insert includes a doughnut-shaped piece of material shaped and sized to fit inside the tire and to contact an inside surface of the tire's tread during normal driving (i.e., when driving without a flat). In preferred embodiments, the doughnut-shaped piece of material can... Agent: Danny Towns

20080196806 - High-performance type for a motor vehicle: A tyre for a motor vehicle, in particular a high-performance tyre, is provided with a tread having an overall width. The tread includes first and second circumferential grooves which separate a central region from first and second shoulder regions. The tread includes a circumferential cut in the first shoulder region... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080196807 - Tire provided with two protuberances for deflecting lateral expulsions of water: Heavy goods vehicle tire including beads, sidewalls and a tread. To deflect the flow of water expelled laterally by this tire while running on a wet road, the tire is provided on each of its sidewalls, and near the tread, with a protuberance. One protuberance is positioned on the tire... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080196808 - Studless tire: A studless tire capable of suppressing a vehicle from staggering at the time of braking on icy and snow-covered roads, including a tread portion 2 provided with at least six block rows R1 to R4, wherein each block B is provided with sipes having a depth of at least 3.0... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080196809 - Tool and method for tire traction device installation: A tire chain installation tool comprises an elongated member that is connectable to a traction chain or other traction device and that acts as an extension and guide for leading or pulling the traction chain onto a tire. The tool receives one end of the tire traction chain, and an... Agent: Pedersen & Company, PLLC

20080196810 - Runflat safety band incorporating wireless device: A wheel well filler or runflat safety band having a band member with at least one break in it so as to enable it to be fitted onto a wheel. A link member connects the ends of the band member so as to bridge the break and thereby secure the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080196811 - Method for producing a belt package for a pneumatic vehicle tire: A belt package for a pneumatic vehicle tire has at least two belt plies. The belt plies are built up in at least two sub-packages, which are automatically placed on a belt drum and automatically spliced independently of one another. The sub-packages are then joined together to form the complete... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080196812 - Tire with tapered bead and method of making tires: A tire with a tire bead having a cross sectional profile including a relatively wide base section and a top section that is tapered on at least one side, with the tire bead being embedded directly in the tire body without the use of an extension. Also, a tire with... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080190529 - Resilient caster: A wheel assembly, including a rim and a central hub assembly, having a plurality of spokes threaded to a central hub. Each of the spokes movable under spring load within a tangential slots provided on the rim. A spring surrounding each spoke, with a first end of the spring engaging... Agent: Mark Manley

20080190530 - Tire of automotive toy car: A type of an automotive toy car has a high capacity of griping the ground and anti-tension, which improves the stability and the automotive efficiency thereof at the start moment. The tire includes a tire body nested on the tire rim, and an anti-tension netting body disposed relative to the... Agent: Hdsl

20080190531 - Snow and ice patch for tires: A snow and ice patch for tires that can be temporarily affixed to a vehicle tire by means of an adhesive. The patch includes flat and rectangular panel with a plurality of opposite surface layers disposed thereon. The first of the plurality of surface layers includes an adhesive that is... Agent: Kimberly Flynn

20080190532 - Rubber composition and tire using the same: This invention relates to a rubber composition including a polyisoprene rubber having a very high cis-1,4-bond content and having an excellent balance between dynamic properties and processability, and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising as a rubber component (A) a synthetic polyisoprene rubber having a cis-1,4-bond content of not... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080190533 - Anti-skid device for vehicle wheels: An anti-skid device for vehicle tires is provided which includes a chain cover formed by two spaced apart chain lengths (9) formed of links (11), that are connected by connector links (15). Guide chain bodies (23) engage the connector links (15), which connect the chain cover to retainer loops (29)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080190534 - Vehicle wheel with seats of unequal diameters and assembly comprising a wheel and a support element: Vehicle wheel, with symmetry of revolution, including a disc and a rim, the rim including a first and a second seat which seats are designed to receive and to hold a first and a second bead of the tire, each seat having a substantially frustoconical bottom locally coinciding with a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080190535 - Hub-bearing assembly allowing pressurized air to be supplied to the tyre of a vehicle wheel: A hub-bearing unit has a rotatable hub fixable to the wheel of the vehicle and a stationary bearing race fixable to the vehicle for rotatably supporting the hub about an axis. An air cavity is formed in the hub with a radial passage for letting pressurized air into the cavity... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080190537 - Pneumatic radial tire for motorcycle: There is provided a pneumatic radial tire for a motorcycle whose turning stability is improved by achieving both grounding performance and lateral rigidity at high level. A mono-spiral belt (MSB) (3) includes steel cords whose tensile break strength is 5.9 Pa or more. A value Tc of a number of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080190536 - Pneumatic tire for two-wheeled vehicle: The carcass has a semi-radial construction, whereby the necessary and minimum rigidity is ensured with the ride comfort being assured. In the crown part of the semi-radial bias carcass 16, a belt layer 26, which is a crossed belt layer, is provided, and inside of the tread end parts, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080190538 - Pneumatic tire and method of producing the same: A method is disclosed for reducing separation of ribbon layers of a ribbon-layered body formed by extruding rubber into ribbon-shape and spirally wrapping it around a cylindrical support axially, making overlaps, which occurs when the ribbon-layered body is pressed at axially both ends from the periphery. A ribbon-tread 1 includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080190539 - Tire bead structure: A tire comprising sidewalls joining a crown part to beads that are intended to come into contact with a mounting rim, these sidewalls comprising a carcass reinforcement anchored in each bead to at least one bead wire and having an end in each bead, the bead wire having, seen in... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080190540 - Method of producing pneumatic tire and pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a method of producing a pneumatic tire in which a green tire having a layer of film having a thermoplastic resin as a main component, and an uncured rubber layer provided thereon is cured. When the uncured rubber layer is formed on the film layer, at least one... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080185084 - Tire tread having tread elements with a chamfered edge: This application discloses a tire comprising a circumferential tread including at least one tread element having a top surface, at least one edge, and at least one chamfered surface extending between the top surface and the edge. The chamfered surface is oriented at an angle relative to the top surface... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080185085 - Pneumatic tire: The invention provides a pneumatic tire which can obtain a sufficient engagement force in a depth direction in comparison with a known pattern while making good use of an advantage of a waveform sipe, and is hard to be affected in an inhibiting effect in accordance with a collapsing direction... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080185086 - Rotary union assembly for use in air pressure inflation systems for tractor trailer tires: A rotary union assembly for an automatic tire inflation system for maintaining the pressure in the tires on a tractor trailer or other vehicle having a source of pressurized air for communication with the tires. The assembly communicates the tires with the air source through the axle interior using a... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080185087 - Tire and crosslinkable elastomeric composition: A tire, including a carcass structure, includes at least one carcass ply of a substantially toroidal shape, having opposite lateral edges associated with respective right-hand and left-hand bead structures, the bead structures including at least one bead core and at least one bead filler; a belt structure applied in a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP