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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182626 | Tire composition with improved vulcanizing agent A tire composition with a Shore A hardness, according to DIN 53 505 and ASTM D2240, of not less than 40 and not greater than 95 and a glass-transition temperature Tg (E″max), according to DIN 53 513 with a specified temperature sweep of −80° C. to +8... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8168020 | Pneumatic tire and its fabricating method Two kinds or more of resin films having different surface roughnesses are pasted to an outer surface of a side portion of an unvulcanized tire, the unvulcanized tire is vulcanized and molded in a state of pasting the resin films, thereby, a pneumatic tire provided w... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8048247 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels In a method for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels, a green tyre, once formed, is transferred into a vulcanisation mould and pressed against the holding walls of a moulding cavity. Concurrently with the pressing step, a fluid present between the green tyre and t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8034204 | Method and device for separating and removing rigid core for building tire Provided are a method and a device for efficiently separating and automatically removing a tire-building rigid core from the inside of the tire. After a core holding mechanism and upper and lower support plates are removed from a rigid core body that is disposed in ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7896996 | Pneumatic tire and producing method of pneumatic tire In the producing method of the pneumatic tire, a step in which a wide rubber ribbon having a width of 60 to 110 mm is wound in a circumferential direction to form annular bodies is repeated a plurality of times, an inner liner member in which the annular bodies are ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7850808 | Pneumatic tire and producing method of pneumatic tire In a pneumatic tire whose tire cross section height is less than 110 mm and which has an inner liner layer disposed inside of a carcass layer, the inner liner layer has a wide rubber ribbon region formed by spirally winding a wide rubber ribbon along a tire circumfe... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7780806 | Tire for an aircraft and method for producing the same There is provided a tire for an aircraft capable of enhancing abrasion resistance and effectively preventing a progress of peeling of the non-extensible cords of the main belt layers even when the tire suffers external injury reaching the main belt layers. A tire co... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7736454 | Method for incorporating an annular antenna and electronics into a tire Apparatus and a method for pre-cure application of an antenna assembly to a tire comprises the method steps: forming within a rigid core defining an interior surface of the tire a core recess complementarily configured to the antenna assembly; positioning the antenn... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7678216 | Tire filled with core and curable elastomeric material and method A tire having a core located in a tire cavity and a cured and foamed elastomeric material located in the tire cavity adjacent the core. The core is made of a solid material, a precured and foamed elastomeric material or a hollow rigid structure. The core may be a si... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7674344 | Pneumatic tire with depolymerized butyl rubber-based built-in sealant prepared with activated organoperoxide The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire with a built-in sealant layer comprised of a depolymerized butyl rubber based sealant precursor. The butyl rubber of the built-in sealant precursor composition is depolymerized in situ within the tire with an activat... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7670448 | Vehicle wheel made with precured and foamed elastomeric material and method A vehicle wheel having a tire mounted on a wheel rim with a precured and foamed elastomeric material in a closed cavity in the tire and a polyurethane formed in the closed cavity around the precured and foamed elastomeric material. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7648606 | Weight free tire balancing system An improved apparatus, system and method of balancing a tire for a vehicle is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a new tire for a vehicle is provided wherein the tire incorporates a plurality of removable portions and/or attachments that may be removed from their... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7628881 | Manufacturing method of rubber member for tire, and pneumatic tire A manufacturing method of a rubber member for a tire includes a winding step in which a rubber strip is spirally winding and overlapping around a surface of a to-be wound body, thereby forming a tire rubber member around which the rubber strip is overlapped. A plura... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7628880 | Method of mounting tires to civil engineering vehicles and associated tire A method for fitting tires (P) to a driving axle of a vehicle carrying heavy loads, which consists, after having determined the type of journey made by said vehicle, in: when the route is of type A (ascending under load with a driv... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7625456 | Method of designing tread pattern having three-dimensional design units A vehicle tire includes a tread provided with a tread pattern, which is made up of circumferentially arranged design units having a plurality of pitch lengths Pi (i=l to j) including a minimum pitch length Pl and a maximum pitch length Pj. Each of the design units h... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7578897 | Rubber member sticking device Provided is a rubber member sticking device which prevents a sheet material held from becoming deformed and stretching during a separation operation, thus suppressing loss of energy and eliminating traces of vacuum holes. When an unvulcanized rubber sheet 12 ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7556704 | Pneumatic tire and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire, including the steps of intermittently crimping volume adjusting members on both side sections of a sheet inner liner material in a longitudinal direction thereof beforehand, winding the inner liner material on an outer pe... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7531056 | Run-flat tire support and manufacturing method for the same A manufacturing method for annular run-flat tire support which has a supporting part and a leg part, and which, at the time of run-flat running, is capable of carrying load, comprises the steps of supplying said supporting part and said leg part, applying a bonding ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7520949 | Tire manufacturing method and tire In producing a side-reinforced type runflat tire in which side reinforcing rubbers with generally crescent-shaped sections are interposed between a carcass and an inner liner, the first drums 11a, 11b on which the side-reinforcing rubbers... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7501033 | Chipper and apex subassembly as an intermediate article of manufacture A chipper and apex subassembly 100 as an intermediate article of manufacture in a pneumatic tire has an apex strip 30 formed as a continuous elastomeric strip of unvulcanized material having a bottom base portion 31 and two opposing sides 33,... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7476285 | Motorcycle tires and method of producing the same A motorcycle tire having excellent belt cord durability, high-speed durability, impact force absorbability, running stability and uniformity performances is produced by constituting a belt with a low-cost steel cord member having a specified twisting construction of... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7442335 | Apparatus and method for loading and unloading a tire press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7419557 | Method for protecting tire innerliner using thermoformable film coated with pressure-sensitive adhesive A method is provided for protecting a virgin surface of a tire innerliner from contamination by a release agent during curing. A pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA)-coated thermoformable film is pressed onto an exposed virgin surface of a green tire innerliner to adhe... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7387696 | Tire tread design and the construction method thereof A tire tread, comprising a tread pattern formed of groups of motifs arranged, in the transverse direction, in a number M of distributions at least equal to two and of average width Li, Lj, the total of the widths Li, Lj being at least equal to 80% of the width L of ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7373287 | Finite element analysis tire footprint smoothing algorithm using multiple load cases A method and apparatus for predicting the shape of a contact region of a finite element model deformed against a contact surface. The contact surface may be a rigid body or another finite element model. The shape of a contact region is dictated by the node/element d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368024 | Balanced tire assembly and method A balance material is applied to the inner surface of a tire at one or more selected locations to offset an imbalance of the tire. The balance material is fluently applied to the inner surface at a first viscosity, whereafter the balance material transforms to exhib... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7332047 | Adherent, removable barrier film for tire carcass A bond of a rubbery component to a virgin surface of a tire's cured innerliner which virgin surface has never been contaminated by the remnants of a release agent left after buffing with a wire brush and solvent-cleaning the cured innerliner, is unexpectedly stronge... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329325 | Method of manufacturing a tire comprising at least one insert A method of manufacturing a tire (3), which includes a crown (5) having a molded tread pattern, and at least one insert (6) with a position that is set relative to the molded tread pattern. The method includes building an uncured tire around a c... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7316255 | Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing the same A pneumatic tire comprises: a carcass ply turned up around a bead core in each bead portion from the inside to the outside of the tire so as to form a pair of turnup portions and a main portion therebetween; a bead apex disposed between the carcass ply turnup portio... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311791 | Safety liner having a valve for a vehicle tire and method of use A safety liner (20) for a vehicle tire (500) includes a tubular body (22) having a one-way valve (24). A service valve (50) is selectively insertable into the one-way valve (24). Tubular body (22) is compressible into... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295948 | Laser system for marking tires System for identifying and marking individual automotive tires including use of a light sheet sensor enabled image processing for the identification of the tire type and the marking spot. The height profile of the raised symbols on the tire sidewall can be measured ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291237 | Method of making tire having wear indicators A tire in which a tire manufacturer has determined the tractive capacity at numerous levels of tread wear, the tire having at least one visual warning indicator located at a tread depth corresponding to a percentage loss of tractive capacity. Also, a method of makin... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7252127 | Reflecting bicycle tires Bicycle wheels have integral reflective areas to increase visibility of the bicycle. These areas show through portions of the wheel tread, so that the tread protects the reflector material from wear. The reflecting areas are scattered over the wheel and situated at ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248373 | Workpiece configuration detection system and method An assembly includes a platform for supporting and moving a tire along therealong. A light emitter of a first detection assembly transmits a first signal from emitter around the tire in to determine the height of the tire. A light receiver of the first detection ass... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7238249 | Producing method of high speed FV reducing tire It is an object of the present invention to reduce a high speed FV n-order component of a completed tire by specifying a mounting phase of a raw tire with respect to a vulcanization mold. A variation amount of a total gage of a tread portion of each of non-vulcanize... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7222651 | Tire for preventing rollover or oversteer of a vehicle A tire for preventing vehicle rollover or oversteer comprises a pair of bead portions, a pair of sidewall portions, a tread portion extending between the pair of sidewall portions, and a portion of low friction material positioned along an edge of the tread portion.... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7196618 | Tire pressure monitoring device A tire pressure monitoring device includes a planar circuit board, a sensor, a controller, and an antenna. The sensor is mounted on the circuit board, is adapted for detecting a pressure of a pneumatic tire of a vehicle, and is operable so as to generate a signal th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196617 | Graduated stiffness for electrical connections in tires A strain-resistant electrical connection and a method of making the same is provided. A wire or other conductive lead is connected to a circuit in a manner that makes the connection more resistant to mechanical stresses such as movement or rotation of the lead relat... | 03/27/2007 |
