Resilient tires and wheels inventions 10/08

20080257463 - Tyre for vehicles, in particular motor vehicles: A tyre for vehicles which does not require pressurisation by means of a pressurised fluid has a tread, two sidewalls, and two beads which are attached to a wheel rim made of elastomer material, and is provided with at least one tubular reinforcement body which is associated with the tread;... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20080257467 - Pneumatic tire: [Measures for Addressing the Subject] Step portions 22F and 22R that are continuous so as to protrude respectively from step-in sides and kick-out sides of each of blocks 20 configuring a tread portion 16 are disposed in a pneumatic tire, and the step portions 22 are disposed in a staggered... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080257468 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprising, on a tread face of the tire, a shoulder land portion extending in a circumferential direction of the tire, and a thin groove extending in the circumferential direction of the tire adjacent to a contact end of the shoulder land portion where comes into contact with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080257469 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprising a shoulder rib segmented into a main rib located at the inner side thereof in a width direction of the tire and a thin rib located at the outer side thereof in the width direction of the tire by a thin groove extending along a circumferential... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080257465 - Low-running-temperature tyre: A tyre for a wheel of a vehicle comprises a toroidal carcass provided with axially opposite sidewalls and beads for anchoring the tyre to a rim of the wheel, a tread band located crownwise on the carcass, comprising a surface with a plurality of hollows and grooves defining a raised... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080257464 - Pneumatic tyre: The invention relates to a pneumatic tyre which comprises first (10) and second (12) separable tyre parts, the first tyre part including the tyre's side walls and the inner layer of the tyre's crown and having reinforcing plies in it, and the second tyre part encircling the first tyre part... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20080257466 - Pneumatic tire: There is provided a method of tire manufacturing a tire in which preset-beads each preformed by mounting a bead filler on a bead core are disposed radially outward of a carcass band and both side portions of the carcass band are turned around the preset beads to build the tire.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080257470 - Unpuncturable inner tube: The invention relates to a device for inserting inside tires of a vehicle so that it follows its course without stopping after a bursting. The device comprises a cluster of flexible bladders (1) which are made of rubber, have a diameter of one to several inches according to the use,... Agent: Biesse Philippe

20080257471 - Fixing a surface element on a tire via a fabric: A tire (1) comprising over at least part of its surface at least one applique (8). The applique (8) includes a first layer (9) in contact with the air and constituting the upper layer of the applique, and a second layer (10) in contact with the tire (1) and constituting... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080257463 - Tyre for vehicles, in particular motor vehicles: A tyre for vehicles which does not require pressurisation by means of a pressurised fluid has a tread, two sidewalls, and two beads which are attached to a wheel rim made of elastomer material, and is provided with at least one tubular reinforcement body which is associated with the tread;... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20080257467 - Pneumatic tire: [Measures for Addressing the Subject] Step portions 22F and 22R that are continuous so as to protrude respectively from step-in sides and kick-out sides of each of blocks 20 configuring a tread portion 16 are disposed in a pneumatic tire, and the step portions 22 are disposed in a staggered... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080257468 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprising, on a tread face of the tire, a shoulder land portion extending in a circumferential direction of the tire, and a thin groove extending in the circumferential direction of the tire adjacent to a contact end of the shoulder land portion where comes into contact with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080257469 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprising a shoulder rib segmented into a main rib located at the inner side thereof in a width direction of the tire and a thin rib located at the outer side thereof in the width direction of the tire by a thin groove extending along a circumferential... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080257465 - Low-running-temperature tyre: A tyre for a wheel of a vehicle comprises a toroidal carcass provided with axially opposite sidewalls and beads for anchoring the tyre to a rim of the wheel, a tread band located crownwise on the carcass, comprising a surface with a plurality of hollows and grooves defining a raised... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080257464 - Pneumatic tyre: The invention relates to a pneumatic tyre which comprises first (10) and second (12) separable tyre parts, the first tyre part including the tyre's side walls and the inner layer of the tyre's crown and having reinforcing plies in it, and the second tyre part encircling the first tyre part... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20080257466 - Pneumatic tire: There is provided a method of tire manufacturing a tire in which preset-beads each preformed by mounting a bead filler on a bead core are disposed radially outward of a carcass band and both side portions of the carcass band are turned around the preset beads to build the tire.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080257470 - Unpuncturable inner tube: The invention relates to a device for inserting inside tires of a vehicle so that it follows its course without stopping after a bursting. The device comprises a cluster of flexible bladders (1) which are made of rubber, have a diameter of one to several inches according to the use,... Agent: Biesse Philippe

20080257471 - Fixing a surface element on a tire via a fabric: A tire (1) comprising over at least part of its surface at least one applique (8). The applique (8) includes a first layer (9) in contact with the air and constituting the upper layer of the applique, and a second layer (10) in contact with the tire (1) and constituting... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080251173 - Method and device for measuring a tire inflation pressure by means of a stress sensor: A method for measuring inflation pressure of a vehicle tire involves measuring a compressive stress. The tire includes a rubber mass, referred to as an interior rubber, delimited by an internal surface in contact with air inside the tire and an external surface in contact with a carcass ply of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080251172 - Tachometer for tires: A device for counting the rotations of a tire on a vehicle using the deformations that the tire undergoes on each rotation of the wheel, comprising a casing, a sensor intended to generate an electrical signal on each rotation of the wheel, and connection means intended to mechanically connect the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080251174 - Pneumatic tyre: A pneumatic tyre includes: a carcass structure with at least one carcass ply shaped in a substantially toroidal configuration, the opposite lateral edges of which are associated with respective right-hand and left-hand bead wires, each bead wire being enclosed in a respective bead, a belt structure including at least one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080251175 - Sipe blade and tire molded using the same: A sipe blade for forming a sipe with one end opened and the other end closed in a land portion on a tread surface of a tire includes a front-end portion that forms the closed end of the sipe and a connection-end portion that forms the open end of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080251176 - Method and unit for mounting on a rim a tire provided with a safety support: According to the invention, before implementing stage (b) a mean (510) for extracting the second bead in positioned at the bottom of the groove and, to implement stage (e), the second bead is guided axially towards the outside of the groove and the second seat by pivoting the extraction means... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080251177 - Method for operating a tire inflation system of a motor vehicle and tire inflation system: The system has a pressure sensor in the inflation line on the wheel side of the inflation valve, and each inflation valve is connected to a relief valve via a relief line, wherein the relief lines are connected to one another upstream of the relief valve.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080251178 - Assembly of pneumatic tire and rim, and a noise damper used therein: A pneumatic tire and a rim includes a noise damper, fixed to a tire inner surface or a rim inner surface with the upper surface facing a tire inner space, and extending in the tire circumferential direction. The noise damper is made of a sponge having a volume ranging from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080251179 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprising a shoulder land portion and a narrow groove, the narrow groove comprises a first enlarged portion enlarging a groove width at a groove bottom only on the sacrificed portion side, a second enlarged portion being formed adjacently on the tread face side of the first enlarged... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080251180 - Water-based cement for producing tyres: A water-based cement for producing tyres includes 5 to 80% by weight of water, 10 to 60% by weight of a cross-linkable unsaturated-chain polymer base, 1 to 15% by weight of emulsifiers, and a quantity of metal oxide depending on the desired degree of adhesion.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080245455 - Method of detecting an occurrence of hydroplaning of a tire on a road: In a method of detecting an occurrence of hydroplaning of a tire of a vehicle travelling on wet ground, a tread of the tire of the vehicle is equipped with one or more sensors each capable of measuring a compression experienced locally by the tread when the tire is rolling... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080245456 - Method of detecting hydroplaning and estimating an intensity of hydroplaning of a tire on a wet road: In a method of detecting hydroplaning and estimating an intensity of hydroplaning of a tire of a vehicle travelling over a wet ground of a road, measurements are made of stresses in the tread of the tire, a water height present on the road is estimated, and, based on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080245454 - Method of estimating a height of water in contact with a tire on a road: A method of estimating the height of water (hw) that is present on a wet ground of a road and that is in contact with a tread of a tire of a vehicle travelling on this wet road utilizes one or more sensors in the tread of the tire. Each... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080245457 - Off-road tire for motorcycle: An off-road tire for motorcycle comprises a tread portion provided with a plurality of blocks including an axially outmost shoulder block, a pair of sidewall portions, and a pair of bead portions, the shoulder block comprising a tread face with an axially outer edge corresponding to a tread edge and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080245458 - Tire traction device securing apparatus: A tire traction device securing apparatus having a plurality of elastic tensioning arms extending radially from a central hub, each of the plurality of elastic tensioning arms removably attachable to a tire traction device to provide a tension force directed toward the central hub to secure the tire traction device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080245459 - Method for estimating tire force acting on rolling tire: A method for estimating the magnitude of a tire force acting on a rolling tire is disclosed, wherein: using at least seven sensors mounted on a tire sidewall portion, surface strain is simultaneously measured at seven measuring positions; with respect to a combination of the seven measuring positions, a coefficient... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080245460 - Runflat tire with sidewall component containing high strength glass bubbles: A pneumatic runflat tire comprising a sidewall component comprising a rubber composition comprising at least one diene based elastomer and from about 1 to about 40 phr of glass bubbles having a crush strength of at least 10,000 psi as measured by ASTM D3102-78 in glycerol.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080236714 - Pneumatic tire: Provided is a low profile pneumatic tire for an SUV, which is capable of having its enhanced rut performance with its dry and wet performances being reconciled with each other. The pneumatic tire according to the present invention has a nominal width of not less than 255, an outside diameter... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080236715 - Tire deflation device: A tire deflation device includes (1) a component having a plurality of bores, (2) a plurality of spikes removably insertable into the plurality of bores and (3) a keeper within each among the plurality of bores, the keeper being configured to contact a sidewall surface of a spike among the... Agent: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20080236716 - Elastomer having feather material: Rubber compositions having feather material incorporated therein and products formed from these rubber compositions, an example being a cross-linkable or cross-linked rubber composition having an essentially unsaturated rubber elastomer and a filler that is selected from carbon black, silica or combinations thereof with between 1 and 60 phr of feather... Agent: Michelin North America, Inc. Intellectual Property Department