Resilient tires and wheels inventions

20080105344 - Tire having an illuminated sidewall: An electro-luminescent device is affixed to a tire sidewall and powered by a power source affixed to the wheel or tire. Wire(s) within the device in a preferred configuration emit a light in one or more colors in response to energization by the power source. The electro-luminescent display may be... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080105345 - Tire having an improved sidewall illumination system: An optical fiber device is affixed to a tire sidewall and powered by a light source affixed to the wheel or tire. Optical fiber cable(s) within the device in a preferred configuration emit a light in one or more colors in response to light signals from the light source. The... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080105347 - Pneumatic tire: A tread surface is formed from a center arc, a shoulder-side arc, and a shoulder arc, in such a manner that K1=L1/(TDW×0.5) satisfies 0.6≦K1≦0.8, where L1 is an outline area that is a width from an equatorial plane to the end of the center arc and TDW is a tread... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080105348 - Tire including concave recesses in a circumferential tread: A tire having an equatorial plane and a circumferential tread is provided. The tread includes at least one recess defined by at least one concave surface having a plurality of sipes formed therein. Optionally, the at least one concave surface can include one or more channel disposed therein.... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080105349 - Pneumatic tire: The present invention has an object to improve snow/ice performance, wet performance, and wear resistance of a pneumatic tire. The present invention provides a pneumatic tire which includes, in a tread, at least two circumferential grooves extending along a tire circumferential direction, a plurality of lug grooves extending in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080105346 - Tire: In order to solve the various conventional problems described above, the present invention provides a tire which is excellent in a braking property and a drivability (WET performance) on a wet road surface and which sufficiently displays an edge effect or a spike effect and is excellent in an on-ice... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080105350 - Air no air elastomeric tire: An elastomeric tire for mounting onto a rim that is manufactured by casting or molding methods to include an exterior arch shaped cavity that is centered under and is below the tire tread to have at least one hundred forty (140) degrees and not more than one hundred seventy (170)... Agent: M. Reid Russell

20080105351 - Extended-mobility tire with lowered anchoring zone: Extended-mobility tire includes at least one carcass-type reinforcement structure, with each of the tire's sidewalls being reinforced by a sidewall insert. Each bead of the tire includes an anchoring zone permitting the reinforcement structure to be held on a rim and including an anchoring rubber mix with a series of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080105352 - Reduced weight aircraft tire: A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure wherein the belt reinforcing structure is a composite belt structure having at least one radially inner spiral layer and at least one zigzag belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of said spiral layer. The zigzag belt width is preferably... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080105353 - Pneumatic tire provided with a multi-layered tread and process for its manufacture: A pneumatic tire includes a carcass structure, at least one annular reinforcing structure, a tread band, a belt structure, and axially opposite sidewalls. The tread band includes at least one radially inner layer and a radially outer layer. The at least one radially inner layer includes a first modulus of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080099115 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire having improved wear resistance, especially improved uneven wear resistance (such as river wear), is offered. The tire that is a rib-pattern tire has five ribs extending circumferentially of the tire. The ribs include a center rib and intermediate ribs located on the opposite sides of the center... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080099114 - Manufacturing method of a piece in a tire mold for molding: The manufactured pieces are the ones both end surfaces thereof in the tire circumferential direction are cut from the pieces before cutting 1 and the pieces before cutting 1 have the cutting regions whose cross-sectional shapes in the tire width direction are the same at both ends of its circumferential... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080099116 - Low noise pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire including a single or a plurality of noise absorbing members formed of a porous material attached to one side of surfaces of an elastic band in the longitudinal direction thereof, and also disposed on the tire inner peripheral surface by using the elastic band along... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080099117 - Low noise pneumatic tire: Disclosed is a low noise pneumatic tire in which a plurality of noise absorbing members of a porous material are attached to the tire inner peripheral surface with intervals in the tire circumferential direction. The number of the noise absorbing members is from 5 to 50. The total length obtained... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080099118 - Pneumatic radial tire for passenger car: s

20080099119 - Self-sealing tire: A self-sealing tire includes a tire body, a partition wall, and a sealant that is adapted to seal a puncture in the tire body. The tire body includes an outer circumferential wall that contacts the ground, a first side wall and a second side wall that extend from the outer... Agent: Park Law Firm

20080092999 - Pneumatic tire: In the invention, a tread surface is provided with a groove portion including a main groove continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a land portion including a rib or a block separated by the main groove, wherein the land portion includes a first edge portion having a depression... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080093000 - Pneumatic tire: In the pneumatic tire in which not less than three main grooves 1 extending in the tire circumferential direction R are formed and ribs 2 are formed by the main grooves 1, upper edges 11 of the main groove 1 when the tire is new extend in a linear manner... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080093001 - Heavy duty tire: A heavy duty tire comprises: an inner liner of an air-impermeable rubber compound disposed inside a carcass and extending into each bead portion; and a chafer made of a hard rubber compound and comprising a base part, an axially inner part and an axially outer part extending along the bottom... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080093002 - Elastomeric tire: An elastomeric tire formed to contain a core of plies, belts and beads in a cavity of a mold. The core is built on a mandrel portion of an inner mold that is for fitting to an outer mold, forming a cavity containing the core that the elastomeric material is... Agent: M. Reid Russell

20080093003 - Tire with central rubber layer reinforced with micro and/or macro reinforcing fillers to abridge split carcass ply ends: The invention relates to a tire having a split ply carcass member with the ends of the split carcass ply spaced apart in the central crown portion of the tire and a central rubber layer spanning the gap between the split carcass ply ends, wherein said central rubber layer is... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20080087361 - Method and device for adapting tires of a means of locomotion to given travel situations: A method for adapting tires (14) of an, in particular, motor-driven means of locomotion to given travel situations, in particular of a passenger car, of a lorry or the like. The shape of at least one tire (14), preferably of a plurality of tires (14) or of all the tires... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080087362 - Motor vehicle pneumatic tyre: Vehicle pneumatic tire includes a carcass having sidewalls and a tread rubber. A sidewall area is covered on an outside by a sidewall rubber strip. A moiré pattern is arranged on the sidewall rubber strip and is formed by a superimposition of at least two linear non-identical families of curves.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

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20080087364 - Tire whereof at least one bead seat comprises a rib: Tire having two beads, at least one bead 1 of which has a seat 11 inclined toward the outside, this seat 11 being extended axially and radially to the outside by a lateral part 12, this bead 1 comprising an anchoring device formed from at least one circumferential bead reinforcing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080087365 - Tyre whose crown comprises a plurality of zones formed with a circumferential reinforcing cord: A tire includes a crown reinforcement provided with a cord forming a plurality of circumferential turns, the cord disposed on opposite sides of a median zone of the tire. The circumferential tension of the cord varies axially along the tire. The circumferential tension of the cord on one side of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC