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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037913 | Pneumatic tire with single non-continuous carcass ply A carcass for a pneumatic tire includes a first annular bead, a second annular bead, a first continuous radial ply, a second continuous radial ply, and a third non-continuous radial ply. The first radial ply has two shoulder portions and two lateral edge portions. O... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7975742 | Motorcycle tire for off-road A tire (2) according to the present invention includes a tread (4), a pair of beads (8), and a carcass (10) having a radial structure. The carcass (10) has a first ply (32) and a second ply (34). The first ply (32 | 07/12/2011 |
| 7533707 | Two-piece tire The present invention relates to a two piece pneumatic tire comprising a carcass and a removable tread belt disposed radially about the periphery of the carcass, the tread belt and carcass meeting at an interface between a radially outermost surface of the carcass a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533708 | Two-piece tire The present invention relates to a two piece pneumatic tire comprising a carcass and a removable tread belt disposed radially about the periphery of the carcass, the tread belt and carcass meeting at an interface between a radially outermost surface of the carcass a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7426950 | Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing the tire A radial pneumatic tire includes a body ply and two belts. Each of the body ply and the belts has ribbon pieces that are arranged along the circumferential direction of the tire. Each ribbon piece is joined with the adjacent ribbon pieces at the lateral sides. Each ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7416007 | Tyre for a vehicle wheel A tyre for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass structure, belt structure, tread band, and at least one pair of sidewalls. The carcass structure includes at least one first carcass ply and at least two annular reinforcing structures. The at least one first carcass ply... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7396426 | Method for making a reinforcing structure for a vehicle tyre and a tyre made by the method A method for making a reinforcing structure for a vehicle tire includes laying down at least one continuous thread element onto a support element, generating one or more layers. A path of the at least one thread element is substantially concentric with a rotation ax... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7380579 | Metal cable usable in a tire carcass reinforcement The present invention relates to a metal cable usable for reinforcing a carcass reinforcement for a tire, such as a heavy-vehicle tire, to a composite fabric usable as a ply for such a carcass reinforcement, to a carcass reinforcement comprising this fabric and to a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369942 | Vehicle traveling state determining apparatus The present invention provides a vehicle traveling state determining apparatus including a camera which picks up an image of a road surface in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling, and zigzag state detecting section for determining a zigzag amount on the basi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7314073 | Device for producing a reinforcing structure for a tire, comprising a strip turning mechanism Apparatus for fabricating a strip-like reinforcement structure for a tire, which includes a laying head for laying the strip. The laying head includes a guidance passage for the strip formed by slots, rolling-down rollers intended to cooperate with a form, a cutter ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7250089 | Method of manufacturing segmented belt tires Three methods of constructing tires having functionally graded belts are provided. According to one method a bandage is used to hold neighboring belt segments in position so they may be simultaneously applied to a carcass. According to a second method, longitudinal ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240709 | Extended-mobility tire with decoupled anchoring zone A tire for a vehicle wheel, comprising two sidewalls joined at their radially outer portions by a crown zone, beads, a reinforcement structure extending substantially radially from each of the beads, towards the crown zone, at least one of said beads comprising: a b... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238248 | Method of building a tyre and tyre for a two-wheeled vehicle A method of building a tyre includes forming a carcass structure comprising at least one carcass ply, applying a belt structure at a radially external position with respect to the at feast one carcass ply, applying a pair of sidewalls at an axially external position... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225846 | Pneumatic tire with reinforced bead part The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire with a rubber lump applied to the bead part, and more particularly, to a pneumatic tire wherein the bead part is reinforced by applying a rubber lump on the side surface of the lower portion of the bead with a carcas... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7207366 | Two-piece tire The present invention relates to a two piece pneumatic tire comprising a carcass and a removable tread belt disposed radially about the periphery of the carcass, the tread belt and carcass meeting at an interface between a radially outermost surface of the carcass a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195046 | Run flat pneumatic tire with shoulder cushion rubber layer loss tangent less than carcass coating rubber loss tangent There is provided a pneumatic tire having an aspect ratio of not less than 60 and considerably improving run flat durability as compared with the conventional type of the run flat tire, wherein at least one cushion rubber layer having a loss tangent lower than a los... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7186845 | Polymer-filler coupling additives Dispersion of filler(s) in polymeric compositions are improved by the use of a polymer-filler coupling compound, Q—A—B, wherein Q comprises a dipolar nitrogen-containing moiety that can form a 1,3 dipolar addition to an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond; B is an ox... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7156137 | Preparation of starch reinforced rubber and use thereof in tires The invention relates to a rubber composition which contains starch/plasticizer composite, precipitated silica and carbon black reinforcement together with a coupling agent wherein the coupling agent is an organosilane polysulfide having an average of from about 2 t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152647 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion with tread edges, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein, and a carcass ply of cords comprising a main portion extending between the bead cores through the tread portion and sidew... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150301 | Motor vehicle tire with low rolling resistance A tire for a motor vehicle includes at least one carcass ply, a belt structure radially external to the at least one carcass ply, a tread band radially external to the belt structure, a pair of sidewalls axially-external to the at least one carcass ply, and a pair o... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148285 | Coated carbon black pellets and methods of making same A method of producing coated carbon black pellets is disclosed and includes contacting carbon black pellets with a coating agent to at least partially coat the individual carbon black pellets with the coating agent. The amount of coating agent applied to the carbon ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7096908 | Self-supporting tyre for a vehicle wheel, and method of making the tyre A self-supporting tyre for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, a tread band, a pair of sidewalls, and at least one elastic stiffening insert. The carcass structure includes at least one carcass ply provided with end flaps engaged with res... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096910 | Tire for a vehicle wheel A tyre for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, a tread band, and sidewalls. The carcass structure includes at least one first and second carcass ply and a pair of annular reinforcing structures. The carcass plies are formed of strip secti... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7082978 | Tires with high strength reinforcement A strip of tire ply stock is reinforced with steel cords wherein the steel cords are constructed of high strength wire filament having at least a tensile strength of −2000×D+4400 MPa where D is the filament diameter in mm. Tires are constructed with the ply stock... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7070552 | Electroconductive rubber roller An electroconductive rubber roller (10) whose outermost layer consists of a rubber layer (1) made of a rubber composition containing an ionic-conductive rubber as a main component thereof. The surface of the rubber layer consists of an oxide film; and ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066228 | Metal/rubber composite for tire A (metal/rubber) composite comprising a rubber matrix reinforced with a metallic body adhering to the rubber matrix by means of an adhesive interphase; the rubber matrix is based on diene elastomer; the metal is a carbon steel, the carbon content of which is between... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066229 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire comprises a cord-reinforced layer such as carcass, belt, bead reinforcing layer which is made of metallic cords, each metallic cord is made up of six to twelve metallic filaments whose diameter is in a range of from 0.15 to 0.45 mm, the metallic fil... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7053137 | Azodicarbonamide treatment for carbon black and rubber compounds A process for producing cured rubber is disclosed wherein the process comprises: A) mixing rubber, carbon black, and azodicarbonamide without other curative ingredients; B) adding the remaining curative ingredients... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7041745 | Addition of polar polymer to improve tear strength and processing of silica filled rubber A vulcanizable rubber composition is provided that comprises an elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising silica or a mixture thereof with carbon black, a silica dispersing aid comprising about 0.1 to about 15 phr poly(vinyl acetate) (PVA), and a cure agent. The ad... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7025104 | Tire-use rubber-covered fabric, production method therefor, production method for pneumatic tire using rubber-covered fabric, and pneumatic tire A rubber-coated fabric 10 for a tire, obtained by rubber-coating a rattan blind woven stuff 14 in which wefts 11 and warps 12 made of tire cords 13 are woven into a rattan blind form. The wefts 11 have a break elongation of ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025846 | Self-supporting tyre for vehicle wheels and method for manufacturing the same A self-supporting tyre (1) has reinforcing structures at the beads (4) defining rest surfaces (4a) for a corresponding rim (1a) which have a profile converging towards the tyre rotation axis away from the equatorial plane (X... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025101 | Pneumatic radial tire with specified tread portion bending rigidity ratio There is provided a pneumatic radial tire for a motorcycle capable of developing an excellent steering stability in a high-speed cornering subjected to a large camber angle, and having an aspect ratio of 0.50–0.85, in which a tensile strength at break of a carcass... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7000662 | Tire having an improved carcass reinforcement anchoring structure A tire comprising a crown, two sidewalls and two beads, a carcass reinforcement anchored in each of the beads and a crown reinforcement. The carcass reinforcement comprises at least two circumferential alignments of first reinforcing threads of high elasticity modul... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997224 | Tire having an improved carcass reinforcement anchoring structure A tire comprising a crown, two sidewalls and two beads, a carcass reinforcement anchored in each of the beads and a crown reinforcement. The carcass reinforcement comprises at least two circumferential alignments of first reinforcing threads of high elasticity modul... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994139 | Tire having an improved carcass reinforcement anchoring structure A tire includes two beads and a carcass reinforcement anchored in the beads. The carcass reinforcement has at least two circumferential alignments of first reinforcing threads. Each such circumferential alignment is, within each bead, bordered axially inwardly and o... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974519 | Tire core package for use in manufacturing a tire with belts, plies and beads and process of tire manufacture A system for manufacturing an elastomeric tire utilizing a separate formation of a package having a tire core shape and containing tire belts, plies and beads. The package is formed by a laying up of layers of pre-cure elastomer intradigitated with sections of porou... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971427 | Pneumatic tire having multiple modulus body cord to reduce rolling resistance A pneumatic tire includes a body having a plurality of main body cords. The tire includes an upper section above the maximum section width and a lower section below the maximum section width. The modulus of the body cords is configured to be larger in the lower sect... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6962184 | Extended-mobility tire with specified bead A tire for a vehicle wheel, comprising two sidewalls joined by a crown zone provided on its radially outer portion with a circumferential tread, a bead arranged at the radially inner portion of each of the sidewalls, each bead comprising a seat and an outer flange w... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6962183 | Pneumatic tire In a pneumatic tire, a cord spacing between an axially outer cord layer and an axially inner cord layer such as: a turnup portion and a main portion of a carcass ply; or a bead reinforcing cord layer and a carcass ply turnup portion, is increased from the radially i... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6945295 | Tire for a vehicle wheel comprising a particular carcass structure A carcass structure for vehicle wheel tires includes at least one carcass ply and a pair of annular reinforcing structures. The at least one carcass ply includes a first and a second series of strip segments consecutively arranged along a circumferential development... | 09/20/2005 |
