Resilient tires and wheels inventions 11/08

20080289736 - Tire including an electronic member, and a method of fabricating such a tire: A tire is disclosed that includes at least one annular bead wire forming a body of revolution about a reference axis. A carcass ply of generally toroidal shape about the same axis as the bead wire has a portion that is folded around the wire. A materials interface is defined... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080289737 - Agricultural vehicle tire: This invention provides a tire for agricultural vehicles that employs a tread design having a flattened contact surface across the width and a plurality of curved lugs that alternately extend from each sidewall to a location nearly adjacent to the opposing side wall. Each lug curves so that a central... Agent: Loginov & Associates, PLLC

20080289738 - Pnuematic tire: An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire which prevents one-sided biased abrasion from being generated. A pneumatic tire according to the present invention has a non-directed rotational direction and comprises rug grooves 20 cutting across a land portion at a shoulder side of a tread... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080289739 - Wheel mounted pump for self-inflated tires: An air pump, mounted on a wheel, which pumps ambient air into the tire chamber to automatically pump up the tire as the wheel rotates. The air pump generally comprises a cylinder and a piston, which relatively reciprocate to effect an intake stroke and a compression stroke. The intake stroke... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080289740 - Rubber composition and pneumatic tire using same: This invention relates to a rubber composition having a high storage modulus (G′) and a low loss tangent (tan δ), and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising 2 to 60 parts by mass of a low-molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-conjugated diene compound copolymer (B) having an aromatic vinyl compound... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080289741 - Manufacturing method of pneumatic tire: First, a first belt ply is wound around an outer peripheral surface of a belt drum having a curvature so as to be formed as a tubular shape, and a rubber layer protruding to an outer side than an end portion in a width direction of a belt reinforcing layer... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080283165 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread rubber comprising layers each formed by overlap winding a rubber tape. The rubber tape in each layer has a conductive part in the longitudinal direction of the tape and the remaining less-conductive part, wherein the conductive part is wound at least once around the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080283166 - Method for manufacturing pneumatic tire: A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire with tread grooves comprises: building a green tire, and vulcanizing the green tire in a mold, wherein the building of the green tire includes making a tread rubber by overlap-winding a raw rubber tape, and the mold is provided with protrusions for molding... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080283167 - Motorcycle tire for off-road traveling: An off-road motorcycle tire having a block pattern comprising a plurality of blocks 11 defined by tread grooves 10, each block 11 having a circumferential profile 16 of top surface 12 in the form of a straight line or a circular arc having a radius Ra of curvature of at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080283168 - Motorcycle tire for off-road: A tire (2) according to the present invention includes a tread (4), a pair of beads (8), and a carcass (10) having a radial structure. The carcass (10) has a first ply (32) and a second ply (34). The first ply (32) has a first cord. The first cord is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080283169 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire is provided in which markings shown on surfaces of side walls thereof have superior visibility and the effect of increased visibility can be maintained over a long period of time. In a pneumatic tire having a marking provided on a side wall, a marking area which includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080283170 - Heavy-load tire: A heavy-load tire has a wind bead structure in which a turned-up portion of a carcass ply is wound around a bead core, in which a bead portion is equipped with a bead reinforcing layer having a U-shaped cross section and a bead apex rubber having a triangular-shaped cross section.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080277038 - Method of making moulds for studded tires: A method for producing a mould lining (G) intended for the manufacture of tires comprising tread blocks that have incisions in them and studs. A mould lining is produced by positioning lamella (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6) of substantially equivalent shape and length on the parts of the lining... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080277037 - Pneumatic radial tire: A pneumatic tire for airplanes that assures a good high-speed durability and wear characteristics without its excellent durability against foreign object being impaired is provided. The number of plies of the main belt layer 26 is substantially continuously decreased from the crown center part P0 to the shoulder part, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080277039 - Run flat tire: A double bead type run flat tire includes a pair of bead sections having annular beads, sidewall sections extending outwardly from the bead sections in a diametrical direction of the tire, reinforcing rubber layers disposed in the sidewall sections, and annular protrusion sections protruding outwardly from at least one bead... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080277040 - Connector for a wrap wire of a bead cord: The connector is formed by pressing the ends of a columnar metallic member inwardly with punches to define a central thick portion 11 as a partition, and recessed sleeves 12 at both ends of the thick portion 11 into which leading and trailing ends 51 of the wrap wire 50... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080271826 - Pnuematic tire: A pneumatic tire has a ground contacting tread. The tread is located between a pair of opposing tire shoulders. The tire shoulders have circumferentially spaced sets of raised ribs. Each set of raised ribs has two to ten ribs, each rib extending in the radial direction relative to the center... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080271827 - Pnuematic tire: The tire has a ground contacting tread portion, the tread comprising at least one straight circumferentially extending groove. The groove defines one lateral side and a lateral boundary of a plurality of tread elements. At least one tread element has a chamfer within the tread element and inward of the... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080271828 - Anti-slipping device for dual tires: Provided is an anti-slipping device for dual tires including: a plurality of spike members 100 which comprises an insertion plate 110 bent in a trapezoidal shape to be inserted between the dual tires, and close-contact plates 120 integrally extending from opposite sides of the insertion plate 110 to closely contact... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080271829 - Heavy duty pneumatic tire: A heavy duty pneumatic tire, which allows the inside narrow-width belt layers to have a wide width as desired, and which suppresses the amount of strain generated at side edge portions of the belt layer to be sufficiently small thereby effectively preventing the separation of the belt layer, therefore the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080271830 - Tire for motorcycle: A tire (18) includes a pair of beads (24), a carcass (26), a belt (28), and a band (30). The carcass (26) includes a carcass ply (44) having a carcass cord. The carcass cord is constituted by a rayon fiber or an aramid fiber. The belt 28 includes belt plies... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080271831 - Carcass reinforcement for tire intended to bear heavy loads: where D50 is the difference, in the distribution of aggregates, between the Stokes diameters of two aggregates corresponding to one and the same frequency equal to 50% of the maximum frequency of the Stokes diameters, dst and D50 being measured by centrifugal photosedimentometry.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC