Resilient tires and wheels inventions

20090277549 - Tire noise reduction device: A tire noise reduction device includes at least one noise absorbing member made of a porous material. The noise absorbing member is attached to the inner surface of the tire tread portion. The noise absorbing member includes multiple continuous grooves arranged side by side in a tire circumferential direction in... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

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20090277551 - Pneumatic tire set: The kinds or types of noise dampers are significantly reduced, while securing high noise suppression performance and high uniformity of tire, to achieve improvement of production efficiency, management efficiency, transportation, storage efficiency and the like and reduction of total cost. On a tire inner surface “is” facing a tire cavity... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090277552 - Pneumatic tire: In a pneumatic tire, 48%≦HB/HA≦52%, 98%≦HC/HA≦100%, 108%≦WB/WA≦115%, and 55%≦WC/WA≦75% are satisfied, where, when a line from a position A of rim height FH in tire width direction is X-axis and a line in tire radial direction via center crown CL is Y-axis, WA is distance of a half of tire... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090277553 - Tire noise reduction device and pneumatic tire provided therewith: Provided are a tire noise reduction device allowing rapid and reliable puncture-repair of a pneumatic tire provided with an annular sound absorbing member on the inner surface of a tread portion of the tire, and a pneumatic tire provided with the tire noise reduction device. The tire noise reduction device... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090277554 - High twist polyester carcass ply for a pneumatic tire: A pneumatic radial runflat tire includes a pair of parallel annular beads, a carcass ply structure, a belt reinforcement structure, a tread, and a pair of sidewalls. The carcass ply structure comprises a polyester fabric with a cord construction of 2200 dtex/2 8.5/8.5 tpi with a cord density of between... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20090277555 - Run-flat support body and method of assembling the same: A run-flat support body and a method assembling the same that improves reliability during running by eliminating mechanical joint components and realizes weight reduction and uniform mass-production are provided. The run-flat support body of the present invention comprises a pair of elastic rings fitted to a rim of a wheel... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090277556 - Pneumatic radial tire for heavy load: A pneumatic radial tire for heavy load vehicles comprises a pair of bead portions in each of which a bead core is embedded, a radial carcass ply 1 extending from one bead portion to the other bead portion and turned around the bead core from an inner side to an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090277557 - Pneumatic tire: The present invention provides a pneumatic tire that inhibits any fatigue rupture at an edge portion of a circumferential-direction reinforcing belt layer and also inhibits any separation at an edge portion of crossed belt layers. In the pneumatic tire, at least two crossed belt layers are disposed on the outer... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090277558 - Lightweight and excellent ductile bead wire, method for producing the same and lightweight tire: A bead wire has a composition of Mn: 5-35 at % and Al: 5-20 at % and the reminder being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a steel structure is an austenite single-phase structure, and achieves weight reduction and high ductility without reducing strength.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090277559 - Method for vulcanization-adhering rubber composition to adherent of brass or plated with brass, reinforcing member for rubber article, rubber-reinforcing member composite and pneumatic tire: This invention relates to a method for vulcanization-adhering a rubber composition to an adherent made from a brass or plated with a brass in the vulcanization adhesion between the rubber composition and the adherent made from the brass or plated with the brass by stably adhering a metal having a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090272471 - System for balancing a tire: The present invention is directed to a machine for balancing a pneumatic tire/wheel assembly and the balanced pneumatic tire. The pneumatic tire comprises an axis of rotation, a belt structure, an innerliner disposed radially inward of the belt structure, and two annular beads for securing the tire to a wheel.... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20090272472 - Pneumatic tire: Provided is a pneumatic tire in which the deterioration of a tire material over time can be visually checked from its external appearance to determine the service life of the tire. The tire is characterized by including a deterioration indicator 7 formed by arranging two or more areas in a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090272473 - Pneumatic tire: Provided is a pneumatic tire having a tread surface (1) with a tread pattern having: at least two circumferential grooves (2) extending in the tire circumferential direction to define land sections (3) on the outer sides in the tire width direction; and lateral grooves (4) extending in the tire width... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090272474 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire sufficiently enhances the frequency dispersion effect for the columnar resonance noise due to the presence of the circumferential grooves, per se, or the lowering effect for the sound pressure level, in association with the cross-sectional area of the lateral grooves. The tire has a tread surface provided... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090272475 - Tire for vehicle wheels comprising crosslinked elastomeric composition: A tire for vehicle wheels, includes at least one structural element obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable elastomeric composition including at least one vulcanized rubber in a subdivided form surface treated with at least one oxidizing agent; at least one diene elastomeric polymer, and at least one sulfur-based vulcanizing agent. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090272476 - Sealant material composition, self-sealing pneumatic tire, and preparation thereof: Pneumatic tire including a sealant material composition providing puncture sealing property within the sealant material composition includes a compound containing a diphenyldisulfide structure therein.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090272477 - Tire for heavy vehicles: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one ply to the other, forming angles of between 10° and 45° with the circumferential direction, which itself is topped radially by a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090266456 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire that can be manufactured according to the conventional method without requiring special tire manufacturing steps and without needing addition of material members and production steps, has excellent rolling resistance and wet properties, and has conductivity. A pneumatic tire 10 has a side wall 16 contacted with a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090266458 - Pneumatic tire: On a pneumatic tire provided with a lug-grooved rib 14 having a circumferentially continuous rib portion 14a and wing portions 14b defined by lug grooves 15, chamfers 14c of depth D2 and width L2 are formed on the wing portions 14b on the side facing a circumferential groove 11d. At... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090266459 - Pneumatic tire: An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire having low rolling resistance and higher resistance against irregular wear. To achieve the above object, a pneumatic tire includes a tread portion comprising a plurality of block arrays each of which is constituted of a plurality of blocks... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090266457 - Pneumatic tire: Provided is a pneumatic tire which achieves both reduction of pattern noise and improvement in driving stability on a dry road surface. The pneumatic tire according to the present invention is designed to be mounted in such a way that a designated side of the tire faces to the outside... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090266460 - Hub bore mounted central tire inflation valve system: A system and apparatus for installing a central tire inflation (CTI) valve containing member into the hub bore opening of a wheel so as to be in communication with an air passageway hub port in the vehicle hub. Preferably, the CTI valve containing member includes a CTI valve sealed to... Agent: Steven R. Scott Shlesinger & Fitzsimmons

20090266461 - Rubber composite and tires made by using the same: (wherein Sa and Sb represent the same contents as described in the equation (I)); a rubber composite improved in a problem originating in a difference in a concentration of a blending agent, particularly sulfur between adjacent rubber compositions comprising a rubber composition cross-linked by sulfur without using new raw materials... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

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20090266463 - Pneumatic tire: This invention provides a pneumatic tire (T) including: a tacky sealant layer (5) formed of a rubber component decomposable by a peroxide, and disposed on the inner side of an inner liner (4) in a region corresponding to a tread part (1); and a cover rubber layer (6) covering the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090266464 - Perforation-resistant flexible enclosure.: Flexible enclosure comprising a working strip 2 and sidewalls 3, defining an envelope, and a sealing membrane 11 at least partially lining the envelope. The sealing membrane 11 is comprised of an elastic material 14 and a perforation-resistant reinforcement 15, the sealing membrane 11 being free with regard to the... Agent: Mr Robert Boulain

20090266465 - Universal run flat tire system and device: The universal system and device of the present invention, once inserted in a conventional pneumatic tire, allows the driven vehicle to be operated in a normal operating condition, as well as in both a low tire pressure and in a run flat condition. For such purpose the tire embodies this... Agent: John M. Deslierres

20090260733 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire (1) including: a pair of bead portions (3) each including a bead core and a bead filler; a carcass layer (5) extending toroidally via a sidewall portion (SW); a tread portion (7) arranged outward of the carcass layer in a radial direction of a tire; and sidewall... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090260734 - Safety wheel for vehicle: A safety wheel for a vehicle includes a rim having a body and a protrusion extending outward from an outer circumference of the body, and having a fastening groove; a first rubber layer wrapped on the protrusion of the rim; an air-filled tube disposed on the first rubber layer, and... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090260735 - Bead cord and vehicle tire: A bead cord is described including an annular core and a side wire. The side wire is helically wound around the annular core. Further, the annular core is made of a strand wire. The strand wire includes a plurality of twisted core wires. The plurality of core wires may have... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.