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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162018 | 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... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151849 | Radial aircraft tire with flipper reinforcement A pneumatic tire for mounting on an aircraft wheel has a radial carcass and flipper reinforcement. The tire has a pair of bead cores, at least two or more axially inner plies greater than or equal to, extending between the bead cores, a crown reinforcement radially ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7918258 | Vehicle tire comprising looped crown reinforcement and circumferentially oriented crown reinforcement elements A tire for a two-wheeled motorized vehicle includes a carcass-type reinforcement structure, having reinforcement elements anchored on each side to a bead. Each bead extends radially by a sidewall, which meets up radially with a tread. Under the tread is a crown rein... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7874335 | Tire with cap ply layer A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a leno weave tape having warp yarn in the longitudinal direction and weft yarns in the weft dire... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7789120 | Tire having a composite belt structure 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 pair of radially outer zigzag layers and at least one spirally wound belt layer with cords inclined at an incl... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7658216 | Tire for two-wheeled vehicle comprising looped crown reinforcement A motorcycle tire includes at least one carcass-type reinforcement structure formed of reinforcement elements, anchored on either side of the tire to a bead whose base is intended to be mounted on a rim seat, each bead being extended radially towards the outside by ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7614437 | Tire/wheel assembly body A tire/wheel assembly body enables reduction of road noise while reducing unsprung mass using a light-metal wheel. The tire/wheel assembly body is formed by installing a pneumatic tire on the light-metal wheel with a rigidity index (α) of 35 to 65 (1/rad). In the p... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7575031 | Heavy duty radial tire with belt reinforcing rubber layer having axially inner and outer rubber portions A heavy duty radial tire comprises a belt layer having first and third plies of cords arranged at an angle of 10 to 45° relative to the tire equator, and a second ply of cords arranged at an angle of at most 5° relative to the tire equator, the widths W1 an... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7556076 | Tire for two-wheeled vehicle comprising an anti-vibration means A tire comprising at least one reinforcement structure of carcass type anchored on either side of the tire in a bead, the base of which is intended to be mounted on a rim seat, each bead being extended radially outward by a sidewall, the sidewalls extending radially... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7537035 | Pneumatic tire with wound cord layer between carcass layer and belt layers A pneumatic tire is provided which enables durability thereof to be improved by preventing oxidation degradation of belt layers. In the pneumatic tire, a carcass layer is laid between a pair of bead portions so that the carcass layer links the bead portions, an air ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7503363 | 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 ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7490648 | 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 i... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7441576 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass 1 comprised of one or more carcass plies toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions, a tread rubber 2 arranged at an outer peripheral side of a crown portion of the carcass 1, a belt 5 arrang... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438104 | Radial tire A rubber-covered belt ply forms a belt layer. At least a majority of metal wires in the ply exist as metal wire bundles in which a plurality of metal wires of circular cross-sections and substantially equal wire diameters are aligned in parallel without being twiste... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7416006 | Reinforcement layer for a tire tread A tire has a radial carcass reinforcement surmounted radially on the outside by a crown reinforcement which includes at least two working plies and two meridian reinforcement plies. The axially innermost ends of the meridian reinforcement plies are spaced axially ap... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7404425 | Belt package for super single truck tires A pneumatic tire with a belt ply helically wound on a carcass ply. The crown reinforcing structure of the tire includes a single helically wound belt ply reinforced with high elongation steel cords. A preferred steel cord construction for the reinforcing steel cords... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395845 | Pneumatic radial tire A belt layer is provided at its outer side with a band layer comprising edge bands on left and right sides. When a cross sectional area of one band cord is defined as S (unit; mm2) and a modulus of the band cord when its elongation is 2% is defined as M (... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7387145 | Motorcycle radial tyre with bandage ply and edge reinforcing strips A motorcycle tire comprises a radial carcass ply (1), the carcass in each bead region being turned axially outward around a bead hoop (7) to form a turnup ply portion (8), the tire having a camber value C/L in the range 0.5 to 0.7 characterized ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7360571 | Pneumatic tire with composite belt structure A method of forming a composite belt structure for a tire is disclosed. The composite belt structure has cord reinforced layers including at least two radially outer zigzag belt layers. The cords per inch in the shoulder portion are greater than the cords per inch i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347239 | Tire noise reducing system A tire noise reducing system comprises a pneumatic tire with a hollow, a wheel rim on which the tire is mounted so that said hollow forms a closed cavity, and a noise damper disposed in the closed cavity, wherein the noise damper is formed by fixing a strip of a por... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343948 | Pneumatic tire for two-wheeled motor vehicles A pneumatic tire for two-wheeled motor vehicles 1 comprises a belt layer 7 and a tread reinforcing layer 9 outside of a single carcass ply 6A made of organic fiber cords. The belt layer 7 is comprised of a belt ply 7A in whi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337817 | Radial tire with circumferential spirally wound belt layer At least one belt layer in which one or plural rubber-coated belt cords are arranged to be spirally wound almost in parallel with a tire circumferential direction on the outer circumference of a body ply. The belt cord is small in the increase rate of tensile load t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7329459 | Polymer-based reinforcement material and tire cord compositions and methods of production thereof The subject matter herein is directed to a polymer-based cap ply reinforcement material that has a shrinkage component, wherein the reinforcement material is treated such that the shrinkage component increases at least about 10% over a reference shrinkage component ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7306021 | Pneumatic radial tire with belt reinforcing layer between carcass layer and belt layer A belt durability is improved by effectively suppressing an interlayer separation between each widthwise outer end portion of a belt reinforcing layer 41 and a belt layer 34, in which each widthwise outer end 45 of one widest-width inner belt pl... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7299843 | Pneumatic tire crown reinforcement A tire comprising a crown extended by two respective sidewalls and two respective beads, a carcass structure anchored in each side of the tire in said beads, said crown comprising at least one reinforcing ply having parallel reinforcements oriented at an angle α re... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7258149 | Tire for motorcycle A tire containing a carcass ply formed along a tread portion, a shoulder portion and a sidewall portion. The carcass ply is reinforced by a belt ply and a band ply and the belt ply includes a fold-back portion. A buffer layer is formed between the belt ply and the b... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252128 | Tire for heavy vehicles A tire includes a radial carcass reinforcement radially surmounted by a crown reinforcement composed of at least two working crown plies formed of metallic reinforcement elements crossed from one ply to the next and forming with the circumferential direction angles ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252129 | Tire with cap ply layer A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a leno weave tape having warp yarn in the longitudinal direction and weft yarns in the weft dire... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7216684 | Pneumatic aviation tire Pneumatic tires for aircraft service having a belt package with shoulder reinforcement. The tire includes a belt reinforcing structure or belt package having multiple cut belts, multiple spiral wound belt layers positioned radially between the cut belts and the trea... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7204285 | Motorcycle tire A radial motorcycle tire comprises a tread portion with a pair of tread edges, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein, and a band disposed in the tread portion and composed of windings of at least one cord wound at an angl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201194 | Non-pneumatic tire A structurally supported tire includes a ground contacting tread portion, a reinforced annular band disposed radially inward of the tread portion, and a plurality of web spokes extending transversely across and radially inward from the reinforced annular band and an... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201198 | Tire for motorcycle A tire (10) includes a carcass (14). The carcass (14) has a first ply (17) and a pair of second plies (18) and (19). The first ply (17) is wound around a bead core (22) and is folded back outward. This portion ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196025 | Method and apparatus for forming fabrics and fabrics made by the method A method for forming a material having an individually stabilized ply includes providing a ply having a non-orthogonal orientation. A stabilizing agent is then applied to maintain the orientation of the ply. The stabilizing agent could alternately be applied before ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7168470 | Pneumatic radial tire Inside a tread portion and outside a belt layer along the radius direction thereof is formed a belt layer comprising a band ply formed by winding spirally a tape- and belt-form ply wherein one ore plural band cords are stretched and arranged to be embedded in a topp... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168469 | Radial tire including two small slant belt layers This invention is concerned with a radial tire, particularly a heavy duty radial tire aiming at the improvement of durability, and is characterized by rendering a ratio W2/W1 of width W1 of a belt layer located side a carcass to width W2 ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165589 | Pneumatic tire with spiral belt including both steel cords and fiber reinforcing cords A pneumatic tire comprises a spiral belt formed by spirally winding a cord(s) along a circumferential direction of a torus tread, wherein the spiral belt is comprised of at least one layer constructed with a combination of two different cords each having an initial ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165588 | Pneumatic tire with band cord modulus higher in side portion than in center portion of band A band (14) of a tire covers a belt (12). The band (14) is formed by a band ply (36). The band ply (36) includes a side portion (38) and a center portion (40). A band cord having a high modulus (Ms) is used for the si... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153792 | Flexible composites and applications including the flexible composites A flexible composite includes a ply having a non-orthogonal orientation. The flexible composite may be a component of a flexible assembly. The flexible assembly may be any number of fabric-based assemblies such as a radome cover of a radome, a belt for an industrial... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7128112 | Tire for two-wheeled vehicles comprising circumferential crown reinforcement elements A tire for a two-wheeled motorized vehicle and more particularly a motorcycle includes at least one carcass-type reinforcement structure, formed of reinforcement elements, anchored one either side of the tire to a bead intended to be mounted on a rim seat. Each bead... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7104299 | Two piece tire with improved tire tread belt A two-piece tire assembly has a removable tread belt 12 for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass 14. The tread belt has at least a pair of belt layers, and one layer comprising inextensible reinforcing cables inclined at substantially z... | 09/12/2006 |
