Resilient tires and wheels inventions 10/09

20090242090 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has main grooves 1 extending in the tire circumferential direction, plural types of oblong hole groups 21 and 22 in the sidewall 3 of the main groove 1. The oblong hole groups have oblong holes 11 and 12 of the same shapes extending in the groove depth... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090242091 - Tire with rubber tread of circumferential zones with graduated physical properties: The invention relates to a tire having a rubber tread comprised of cap/base construction where the tread cap layer provides the running surface of the tread and the tread base layer underlies the tread cap layer and thereby provides a transition between the tread cap layer and the tire carcass.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20090242092 - Wheel end assembly high-temperature warning system: The present invention is directed to a wheel end assembly having a high temperature warning system for giving a warning in the event that the temperature in the assembly reaches a predetermined value such as caused by hub bearing failure or a brake related failure. In one embodiment the system... Agent: Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated

20090242093 - Interface disc for a vehicle wheel: e

20090242094 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire in which the average peel strength between the surface of (A) a layer of a single-layered or multi-layered film of a thermoplastic resin and (B) a rubbery elastic layer, which are used as the inner liner layer, is 6 kN/m or greater at −20° C., i.e., a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC