Resilient tires and wheels inventions 12/08

20080314484 - Rubber composition for tire, and winter tire using the same: A rubber composition for a tire having improved grip performance on an ice snow road surface while maintaining abrasion resistance performance, containing 5 to 150 parts by mass of an aromatic vinyl polymer and 5 to 200 parts by mass of silica based on 100 parts by mass of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080314485 - Pneumatic tire for motorcycle: The number of cords Nmc in the spiral belt 30 in the center area is set to 30 to 70/50 mm, and the number of cords Nms in the spiral belt 30 in the shoulder area is set to 10 to 45/50 mm (Nmc/Nms=1.5 to 3.0). The tread rubber 18... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080314486 - Tension-based non-pneumatic tire: A non-pneumatic tire for supporting a load by working in tension comprising a generally annular inner ring, a generally annular outer ring, and an interconnected web having a plurality of web elements and comprising a plurality of generally polygonal openings. Web elements are sized, oriented and comprised of a material... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080314487 - Seal arrangement for a tyre pressure-regulating device: Seal arrangement for a tire pressure-regulating device for a motor vehicle, comprising a compressed-air supply to a vehicle tire through a hole in the inner ring of a rolling bearing of a wheel bearing, through a seal housing which is connected to a wheel hub in a rotationally fixed manner... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080314488 - Snap-in valve with a device for measurement of tire pressure: The invention concerns a snap-in valve for a vehicle tire with a device (5) for measurement of the tire pressure, in which the device (5) is arranged on a valve foot (15) of the snap-in valve, and the snap-in valve includes a groove (13), into which an edge of a... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080314489 - Large-sized foam inner tube for a tire: Inner tube for an inflatable assembly consisting of a tire and of a rim, the said chamber consisting of material of the foam type, characterized in that the said chamber has a length Lc of the normal section of the inner tube greater than the length Lpi of the internal... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080314490 - Low permeability rubber laminate and pneumatic tire using the same: A low permeability rubber laminate having an excellent bondability, air pressure retaining property and durability and containing (A) at least one low permeability resin layer having an average thickness d of 0.05 μm≦d≦5 μm containing an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene composition ratio of 20 to 50 mol... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080314491 - Construction comprising tie layer: This disclosure relates to a vulcanizable layered composition comprising at least two layers and at least one tie layer. The first of the two layers comprises a fluid permeation prevention layer and the second comprises at least one high diene rubber. The tie layer comprises, a mixture, in parts by... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080314492 - Construction comprising tie layer: the total amount of the component (A) and the component (B) is not less than 30% by weight based on the total weight of the polymer composition, wherein the elastomer component (B) is dispersed in a vulcanized or partially vulcanized state, as a discontinuous phase, in a matrix of the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080314493 - Elastomer composition, method for producing same, and pneumatic tire using same: e

20080314494 - Method of producing tire: There is provided a method of producing a tire comprising the steps of: applying a chafer rubber 21 by spirally winding a rubber ribbon onto a base 15; applying a sidewall rubber 22 of a first color by spirally winding a rubber ribbon at a position on the base 15... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080314495 - Rubber composition for side wall, as well as pneumatic tire: By a rubber composition for a side wall including a solid rubber component including a natural rubber component consisting of 30 to 70% mass of a natural rubber and 30 to 70% mass of a modified natural rubber, and 20 to 60 parts by mass of silica, and 3 to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080314496 - Pneumatic radial tire: A pneumatic radial tire has a nominal section width of 255 mm or more, and an outer diameter of 720 mm or more. At least one carcass layer is constructed between paired right and left bead cores with the two end portions of the carcass layer being folded back from... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080308203 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire capable of reducing rolling resistance and discharging static electricity generated during running, wherein each of a tread rubber, a breaker rubber, and a sidewall rubber formed on the tread part, the breaker part, and the sidewall part, respectively, has a volume specific resistivity of 1×108 Ω·cm or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080308204 - Functional polymers prepared with sulfur-containing initiators: with conjugated diene monomer and optionally copolymerizable monomer within a polymerization medium and allowing the sulfur-containing initiator to initiate the polymerization of the conjugated diene monomer and the optional copolymerizable monomer, where R1 is a monovalent organic group, R2 is a divalent organic group, R3 is a divalent organic group... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080308205 - Tire tread with synthetic fibers: A tire having a circumferential tread is disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of synthetic fibers are embedded in the circumferential tread such that a portion of at least one of the plurality of synthetic fibers is exposed to a surface of the circumferential tread, wherein the plurality of synthetic... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080308206 - Wheel unit: A wheel unit includes a wheel and a pressure adjusting device installed on the wheel to adjust the pressure in the tire. The pressure adjusting device includes a cylinder and a piston provided in the cylinder. The piston moves in the cylinder by centrifugal force generated by rotation of the... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080308207 - Rubber composition, clinch, and tire: The invention provides a rubber composition for forming a clinch of a tire, containing a rubber component containing at least one of a natural rubber and an epoxidized natural rubber, and not less than 30 parts by mass of silica and not less than 0.1 part by mass to not... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080308208 - Rubber composition for carcass ply or band and pneumatic tire using the same: A pneumatic tire equipped with a carcass ply or a band using a rubber composition for a carcass ply or a band, in which characteristics that are desired for the rubber composition for a carcass ply or a band such as adhesiveness with a cord for a tire, durability such... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080302457 - Tread blocks having reduced edge stiffness: A tire comprising a circumferential tread including at least one tread block having at least one edge. The tread block includes at least one void provided therein not more than about 4 millimeters from the edge of the tread block. Exemplary voids include sipes, such as one-end open sipes, two-end... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080302458 - Adjustable inner tube: An adjustable inner tube for a pneumatic tire includes a valve and a continuous tube. The continuous tube includes a first segment and a second segment, wherein the first segment covers a portion of the second segment and the second segment may slide relative to the first segment to alter... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080302459 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire (10) according to the present invention includes a first side reinforcement layer (110) and a second side reinforcement layer (120). The first side reinforcement layer (110) has a plurality of reinforcement cords (110s), and the second side reinforcement layer (120) has a plurality of reinforcement cords (120s)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080295934 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire wherein at least 75% by weight of tire-constituting components based on the tire overall weight are made of nonpetroleum-based materials and wherein, at least, base rubber 2G2 and cap rubber 2G1 of tread rubber 2G, sidewall rubbers 3G and a topping rubber of carcass 6 are formed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080295933 - Tire tread support element comprising a recess for an electronic module, and an electronic module adapted thereto: Insert for supporting the tread of a tire and intended to be positioned around the bearing surface of a wheel and including a housing for an electronic module opening radially internally relative to the insert, characterized in that the insert comprises a support part intended to bear the load of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080295936 - Elastomers containing surface metalated siliceous fillers: This invention is based upon the concept of modifying the surface of silica with a metal, such as titanium or zirconium, which will catalyze silanol condensation reactions on the surface of the silica. In other words, modifying the surface of silica with titanium or zirconium provides a catalyst for the... Agent: Alvin T. Rockhill

20080295935 - Rubber composition and tire: A rubber composition comprising: (A) a rubber component including 30 to 100 mass % of diene rubber having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of an amino group, an alkoxysilyl group, an epoxy group, a hydroxyl group, and a carboxyl group in an amount of 0.01... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080295937 - Pneumatic tire: A sipe is formed in a block provided in a tread surface, wide portions extending in a sipe length direction are formed in each of a kick-out side and a step-in side of the sipe, and a total of heights of the wide portions in the kick-out side of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080295938 - Tire/wheel assembly: Disclosed is a tire/wheel assembly allowed to still further enhance run-flat durability thereof with a simple configuration. A tire/wheel assembly of the present invention is a tire/wheel assembly where a run-flat support member inserted, coaxially with a rim, in a cavity portion of a pneumatic tire. The tire/wheel assembly is... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer , Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080295939 - Method for preventing slippage of a tire on a tire and wheel assembly, and tire and wheel assembly obtained thereby: s

20080295940 - Inner tube of a tire: The present invention is an environment-friendly inner tube The inner tube is formed by a constituent including a Thermoplastic Elastomer TPE that efficiently improves toughness and oxidation resistance. When the inner tube is penetrated by a sharp article, its gas retaining property postposes air leakage and stiffens the inner tube,... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080295941 - Run flat tire: A run flat tire which comprises a ply layer (4) disposed extending toroidally between a pair of bead cores and comprising ply coating rubber and ply cords, an inner liner layer (5) disposed circumferentially at an inner side of the ply layer, side reinforcing rubber layers (6) having an approximately... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080295942 - Optimized support element: Support element designed to be fitted to a rim inside a vehicle tire, for supporting the tread of this tire in the event of loss of inflation pressure, including a base, a cover and an annular body in which each supporting partition of the annular body is in the form... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080295943 - Belt package for super single truck tires: A medium truck tire (10) and more specifically a super single truck tire (10) includes belt plies (22, 23, 25) reinforced with steel cords which make an angle comprised between 0° and 5° with respect to the equatorial plane. Disposed between in embedded fashion between two of the belt plies... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

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20080295945 - Belt package for super single truck tires: A medium truck tire (10) and more specifically a super single truck tire (10) includes belt plies (23, 24, 25) reinforced with steel cords which make an angle comprised between 0° and 5° with respect to the equatorial plane. Disposed radially outermost over the belt plies (23, 24, 25) is... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080295946 - Pneumatic vehicle tire with reinforced tread: A vehicle tire contains a tread part, a bead region which is radially formed inside the tread part and having a bead core, a bead filler formed radially outside the bead core, and a bead reinforcing layer extending over a periphery of the vehicle tire and containing at least one... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP