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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7669626 | Tire with component containing polyketone short fiber and polyethyleneimine The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising at least one component, the at least one component comprising a rubber composition, the rubber composition comprising a diene based elastomer and from 1 to 30 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight o... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7513281 | Method of manufacturing pneumatic tire A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire comprises assembling unvulcanized rubber components to make a green tire, vulcanizing the green tire, and winding an unvulcanized rubber tape so that the windings collectively have a predetermined cross sectional shape for ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7441573 | Pneumatic tire having a rubber component containing short untwisted cord The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having a component including at least one diene based rubber and discontinuous textile cord having at least two textile yarns, wherein the cord is partially untwisted. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7404424 | Pneumatic tire with buffer rubber layer A pneumatic tire using an inner liner layer comprising a film of a thermoplastic resin, or a blend of a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, having an air permeation coefficient of not more than 25×10−12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg and a Young's ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7377300 | Elastic tire for measuring the grip of a vehicle equipped therewith on a ground An elastic tire according to the invention comprises a tread (1) which comprises at least one unit (3) for measuring the grip of the tire on the ground, the measuring unit (3) being intended to come into contact with the ground on each revolutio... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7249621 | Rubber composition and tire with component of diene-based elastomer composition with corncob granule dispersion This invention relates to a rubber composition and tire having at least one component of a rubber composition comprised of at least one diene-based elastomer, to the exclusion of butyl type elastomers, which contains an internal dispersion of corncob granules. Such ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7195045 | Tire having tread including glass fibers and particles having Moh's hardness of at least 5 A rubber composition which can improve performance on icy and snowy road sufficiently and a tire using the same. The rubber composition comprises 2 to 30 parts by weight of staple fibers having an average fiber diameter of 10 to 100 μm and an average fiber length o... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7172001 | Pneumatic tire with short fibers and sipes having zigzag part and producing method thereof A tread portion has blocks that are provided with a plurality of sipes having a zigzag part. A tread rubber is formed of short fiber mixed rubber comprising 1.5 to 25 parts by weight of short fibers in 100 parts by weight of rubber component. The sipes comprise a th... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165587 | Toric reinforced air bag for safety tire and method of producing the same as well as method of producing shaped body for reinforcing layer The invention proposes a technique of preventing a propagation of a damage in a reinforcing layer to a toric air bag even if the reinforcing layer arranged on an outer peripheral side of the toric air bag in a safety tire to suppress an unnecessary size growth of th... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166665 | Elastomeric composition and tire comprising the composition An elastomeric composition includes at least one elastomeric diene polymer, at least one thermoplastic polymer, and at least one polymer comprising functional groups. The at least one thermoplastic polymer comprises a main hydrocarbon chain. Hydrophilic groups are l... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7131476 | Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing the tire A tread rubber G has a short-fiber-mixed rubber portion 10 forming a grounding surface. In a region Y1 between an outer grounding end Eo and a tire equator C located outside of a vehicle when a tire is mounted to the vehicle, the short fibers f are inc... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7122090 | Process for preparing rubber sheet and tread and studless tire using same The present invention provides a studless tire excellent in performance on ice and snow in which digging friction is improved without losing adhesion friction. The studless tire has a tread comprising specific short fiber or plate-like material dispersed in diene ru... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118643 | Method of making tire with exo-belt skin The present invention, in one embodiment, is a method of making a tire with a skin covering at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the tire. In practicing the method, a partially cured tire and a partially cured skin are provided. The partially cured ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7060146 | Method of manufacturing pneumatic tire A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire comprises assembling unvulcanized rubber components to make a green tire, vulcanizing the green tire, and winding an unvulcanized rubber tape so that the windings collectively have a predetermined cross sectional shape for ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055568 | Cord-embedded rubber tape for making tire component, tire component and tire A cord-embedded rubber tape, a tire component made by winding such a tape, and a pneumatic tire comprising such a tire component are disclosed, wherein the tape is made of unvulcanized rubber and at least one cord is embedded therein along the length of the tape. Th... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044181 | Studless tire having tread including fibers oriented in thickness direction There is provided a studless tire that is excellent especially in performance on a snow or ice road. A studless tire, wherein non-metal staple fibers having an average fiber diameter of 1 to 100 μm and an average length of 0.1 to 5 mm are dispersed in a diene rubbe... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7019063 | Rubber composition for inner liner The rubber composition of the present invention is used for producing an inner liner of a pneumatic tire, and is obtained by compounding a rubber component and a layered or plate-like mineral. The layered or plate-like mineral has an aspect ratio of 3 or more and le... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019066 | Rubber composition usable in the vulcanized state as a tire safety support and such a support The present invention provides a rubber composition which when vulcanized may be used to form a safety support intended to be mounted on a wheel rim within a tire. The invention also is directed to such a support, capable of supporting a tread of the tire in the eve... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017633 | Safety tire with expansion-deforming toric air bag There is proposed a toric air bag for a safety tire capable of sufficiently and equally contacting with a full inner face of a tire in the expansion-deformation of the toric air bag by a drop of an internal pressure in the tire, wherein at least an expansion-deformi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6959746 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire including a carcass, a belt arranged at the outside of the carcass in a radial direction and having at least two belt layers, at least one belt reinforcing layer arranged so as to overlap with the belt and extend over a widthwise outer end thereof, ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6945294 | Crown reinforcement for an off-the-road tire Tire for heavy off-the-road vehicles including a radial carcass reinforcement anchored in each bead to an annular bead reinforcement element, and radially above it a crown reinforcement consisting of at least two working crown plies of inextensible metallic cables c... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6899782 | Orientation of short fibers in a continuous process A method and apparatus for continuously processing fiber into an elastomeric component uses an expanding die (11, 11a) for orienting fibers in other than the processing direction of the extrusion. In one embodiment, an injection mold (50) is use... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6848487 | Pneumatic tire having a rubber component containing a rubber gel and starch composite A pneumatic tire having a rubber component comprised of (A) 100 parts by weight (phr) of a rubber containing olefinic unsaturation; (B) from 0 to 100 phr of a filler selected from carbon black and silica; and ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6820666 | Tire, including fiber-reinforced elastomeric intermediate layer between the belt structure and tread band, and method of making the tire A pneumatic tire for vehicle wheels includes a radial carcass, a tread band, sidewalls and beads, and a belt structure. The tread band is provided with grooves on its surface for coming into contact with the ground and situated on a radial outer surface of the carca... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6805177 | High performance tire with tread band having an anisotropic underlayer stable with temperature variation A high performance tire includes a carcass provided with at least one carcass ply, a belt including two or more layers of reinforcing cords parallel to each other in a layer and crossed with respect to those of an adjacent layer, applied circumferentially on the car... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6736174 | Pneumatic tire having thin tread reinforcing layer embedded in the outermost layer of a tread portion In a pneumatic tire of the present invention, a tread reinforcing rubber layer composed of a rubber having larger tensile modulus of elasticity than that of a rubber composing the tread rubber layer and is less stretchable is provided in a thickness direction centra... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6691755 | High transverse-curvature tire for two-wheeled vehicles including specified belt structure A high transverse-curvature tire for two-wheeled vehicles includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, and tread. The carcass structure includes at least two superimposed plies provided with reinforcing cords. The belt structure includes radially-outer... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6666247 | Pneumatic tire including short fibers A pneumatic tire comprises: a tread rubber having a blended rubber portion constituted by a short fiber blended rubber obtained by adding a nonmetal short fiber to a rubber base material forming a tread surface and having a rubber hardness Hs1 (a duromete... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6660122 | Induction curable tire components and methods of selectively curing such components A rubber tire component (10, 20, 30, 40) is laden with a mixture of fibers (12). The fibers (12) being sensitive to induction heating can be rapidly cured using a variety of methods. The preferred method permits a selective induction curing of the fiber l... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6634397 | Tire having floating reinforcement in the shoulder/sidewall A radial ply tire (10) has a floating reinforcement ply on the inside shoulder/sidewall region of the tire. The reinforcement ply comprises ply rubber having a gauge sufficient to delocalize flexing in the tire shoulder/sidewall region, and in one embodim... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6588470 | Pneumatic radial tire reinforced with fibrillated sea-island short polymer fibers A pneumatic tire comprising a rubber member containing a short fiber (A') formed by the fibrillation of a short fiber (A) whose cross section takes a sea-island structure essentially composed of at least two polymers.... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6575215 | Studless tire including tread comprising short fibers A studless tire comprises a tread defining a ground-contacting region, the tread comprising at least a diene rubber and non-metallic short fibers oriented in the tire radial direction. The tire profile satisfies the following equation 1>TW/S>0.92-0.17×A ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6550508 | Rubber composition for tire tread having high performance on ice and pneumatic tire using the same A rubber composition for a tire tread, or a pneumatic tire using the same in a tire tread portion, wherein the tread portion contains a diene rubber; and carbon black and/or silica; and a gas-encapsulated thermoplastic resin and, further, a short fiber, a... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6530408 | High-transverse-curvature tire, in particular for a two-wheeled vehicle A front tire for two-wheeled vehicles comprising a carcass of toric form having a high transverse curvature and provided with a central crown and two sidewalls terminating in a pair of beads for anchoring to a corresponding mounting rim, a tread band loca... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6513559 | Pneumatic tire with specified bead toe A pneumatic tire is disclosed, which comprises: (1) a reinforcing rubber layer made of short fiber reinforced rubber, alternatively (2) a reinforcing rubber layer having hardness set in a range of 90° to 99° of JIS-A hardness, which is arranged in an ar... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6415840 | Pneumatic safety tire with rubber-organic filament fiber layer The present invention provides a pneumatic safety tire comprising a pair of left and right bead cores, a carcass layer, a multi-layer belt portion, a tread portion, and a pair of side wall portions disposed at the left and right of said tread portion, whe... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6412533 | High transverse-curvature tire for two-wheeled vehicles including specified belt structure A high transverse-curvature tire for two-wheeled vehicles includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, and a tread. The carcass structure includes at least two superimposed plies provided with reinforcing cords. The belt structure includes radially-out... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6397911 | High transverse-curvature motor-bike tire A high transverse-curvature tire for two wheeled-vehicles comprises a carcass structure, a belt structure including radially-inner and radially-outer layers, and a tread. The radially-inner layer comprises at least one strip made of an elastomeric materia... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6382285 | Pneumatic tire with high hardness rubber sheet between carcass plies A pneumatic tire having at least two or more pieces of carcasses, wherein a high hardness rubber component sheet, which has tensile stress of 2.0 MPa or more when extended by 20% to a tire circumferential direction and JIS-A hardness of 65 or more, is arr... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6374885 | Studless tire including oriented short fibers A studless tire contains tread portion made of vulcanized rubber, compounded from 100 parts by weight of rubber and 2 to 30 parts by weight of short fibers, and the tread portion has a ground connecting region with sipes, formed by pressing thin plates on... | 04/23/2002 |
