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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8151841 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion on each side of the equatorial plane. At least two circumferential main grooves and three land portions are formed in the tread portion. In a cross section in a meridian direction of the pneumatic tire, profile lines of the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8074690 | Decoupling groove for pneumatic tire tread A pneumatic radial ply truck tire for use on medium truck trailers includes a tread, a casing with two sidewalls, one or more radial plies extending from, and wrapped about, two annular beads, and a belt reinforcement structure located radially between the tread and... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8056591 | Pneumatic tire with tread having ground contact shape and uneven wear sacrificial protrusion A pneumatic tire is mounted onto a rim with maximum loading, and with an air pressure corresponding to maximum loading, such that the ground contact shape has a gradually decreasing circumferential direction length from the tire width direction center to the portion... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7870881 | Tyre for medium/heavy transport vehicles A method for reducing tire microsliding includes defining a rotation point and rotating a cross section profile about it. A cross section of a radially-external reference profile of a tread band includes a first rectilinear segment near at least one circumferential ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7434605 | Tire for heavy vehicle The invention relates to a tire for heavy vehicle of the agricultural or construction type, comprising a carcass reinforcement radially surmounted by a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by means of two sidew... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7406990 | Runflat tire with sidewall component containing high strength glass bubbles A pneumatic runflat tire comprising a sidewall component comprising a rubber composition comprising at least one diene based elastomer and from about 1 to about 40 phr of glass bubbles having a crush strength of at least 10,000 psi as measured by ASTM D3102-78 in gl... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7366578 | Method, program and system for designing shape of product, such as a tire Typical numeric data for specifying a shape of a first product having a typical size are stored in a storage portion. By an input portion (10), a size of a second product other than the typical size is input. A calculating portion (4) determines recomm... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353150 | Tire profile design method First of all, size data (MD), (BD), (BH) and (MW) of a tire are input. Next, a ratio (b/a) of a major axis radius (b) to a minor axis radius (a) of an ellipse (18) is input. Then, constants (S), (a) and (b) of an involute function are calculated. Based on the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341082 | Shoulder ribs for pneumatic tires A pneumatic tire with a shoulder rib and lateral grooves defined in a shoulder rib. A tread and shoulder of the tire are joined along a shoulder edge. The tread includes a circumferential groove defining the shoulder rib, which is adjacent to the tire's shoulder. Th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7308924 | Pneumatic radial tire A pneumatic radial tire which includes a tread portion defining an overall diameter of the tire under a normally-inflated unloaded state and a ground contacting width under a normally inflated loaded state; a pair of sidewall portions defining an overall width of th... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7287568 | High crown uni-stage tire building drum A tire building drum and a method of building a tire carcass is disclosed. The tire building drum has a center section comprised of a plurality of segments that are radially and axially movable. The building drum further comprises shoulder sections that are axially ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288160 | Method of making a tire using a high crown uni-stage tire building drum A tire building drum and a method of building a tire carcass is disclosed. The tire building drum has a center section comprised of a plurality of segments that are radially and axially movable. The building drum further comprises shoulder sections that are axially ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275573 | Radial passenger tire with improved tread contour A pneumatic radial ply passenger tire (10) having a tread (20), a casing with two sidewalls (14, 16), one or more radial plies (18) extending from and wrapped about two annular beads (13) and a belt reinforcement structure (15 | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270164 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire is provided which includes a carcass extending between bead portions, and a belt disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion. At least one of the carcass and belt includes a cord ply of a polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate fiber cord. The p... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7201199 | Tire with bead core with hexagonal section A tire for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass, a tread band radially external to the carcass, and a pair of axially distanced sidewalls. The carcass includes at least one carcass ply including ends associated with bead cores. Each bead core is incorporated in a resp... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201197 | Tire/wheel assembly A tire/wheel assembly includes a wheel having a rim, a pneumatic tire fitted to the rim of the wheel and a run-flat support member, the pneumatic tire having a tread surface and a hollow space, the tread surface having circumferential grooves extending in a circumfe... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7140410 | Asymmetric truck racing tire An improved truck racing tire includes three belts and reduced tread and undertread thickness for weight reduction. An asymmetric shoulder design is provided and circumferential grooves having wear indicia therein at a preselected depth are incorporated into the tre... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133736 | Method for designing a tire and method for producing at least one tire A method for designing a tyre includes defining at least one profile of the tyre based on a group of predefined dimensional constraints; defining at least one additional profile of the tyre based on predefined dimensional values of structural parts of the tyre; defi... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093630 | Heavy duty radial tire A heavy duty radial tire which is provided with traverse grooves extending between the tread edges and longitudinal grooves extending between the traverse grooves so as to form shoulder blocks arranged along each of the tread edges and inner blocks each disposed on ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7066226 | Fuel efficient vehicle tire having a variable footprint and low rolling resistance A tire for vehicles offering low rolling resistance wherein the ground-contact surface area is variable as a portion of the tread part can be retracted and/or extended using pneumatic, mechanical or hydraulic force to withdraw from, or come into contact with the roa... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059373 | Tire with additional ring and bead having a seat inclined towards the outside The invention concerns a tire comprising at least a first and a second bead radially extending to at least a first and a second sidewall, respectively, and the sidewalls being joined to a tread; said first bead having a seat the generatrix of which has its axially i... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7041184 | Method of manufacturing tire including rotating rectilinear segment A method for reducing tire microsliding includes defining a rotation point and rotating a cross section profile about it. A cross section of a radially-external reference profile of a tread band includes a first rectilinear segment near at least one circumferential ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036541 | Pneumatic tire A standard grounding surface shape F0 becomes a maximum grounding length Lc at a tire equator C and becomes a shortest grounding length Lm between the tire equator C and a grounding edge TE. The shortest grounding length Lm is located in a region away from th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6843291 | Pneumatic tire A tire comprising a carcass extending through sidewall regions and a ground contacting tread region and a tread reinforcing breaker disposed radially outward of the carcass in the tread region, inboard and outboard tread regions each extending between the tread circ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6758928 | Method of forming pneumatic radial tire including tread having asymmetric profile By shifting the peak height of the tread on one side of the tire from the centerline (CL), for a tire intended for cambered use on a vehicle and/or exposure to lateral loading, improvements in the footprint shape, pressure distribution, area and footprint shape fact... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6722408 | Pneumatic tire including land portion having arcuate and convex tread surface A center rib and a second rib are formed at a tread surface of a pneumatic tire along an outer contour line L1 of a radius R1 whose center is at a tire inner side. A shoulder rib is formed at the tread surface along an outer contour line L2 of a... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6701986 | Run-flat tire with tread reinforcing rubber layer A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the bead portions, and a tread reinforcement disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion. The tread reinforcement ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6672351 | Vehicle tire with continously reducing vertical spacing of tread surface with respect to breaker A vehicle tire comprises a carcass ply (1) extending between two bead regions, a tread region disposed between side walls (7,8) and having a tread surface (6) curved in the axial direction and also a breaker (5) reinforcing the tread region and arranged b... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6578612 | Pneumatic radial tire having six block rows A pneumatic radial tire, wherein five main grooves extending in the circumferential direction of a tire are provided on a tread to divide into and form land portions of six rows, each land portion is divided into block rows constituted by a plurality of b... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6578611 | Heavy duty pneumatic radial tire having radius of curvature at side regions and radius of curvature at central portion A heavy duty pneumatic radial tire comprises a carcass ply, a belt disposed at an outside of the carcass ply in the radial direction and comprised of two or more belt layers, at least one auxiliary belt layer disposed in a widthwise central portion of the... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6575214 | Vehicle tire including tread portion defined by cycloid curve or epicycloid curve A vehicle tire which has an aspect ratio of less than about 55% and comprises a tread portion having a profile whose radius of curvature decreases substantially continuously from the tire equator to each tread edges. The tread profile from the tire equato... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6564839 | Pneumatic tire having a load dependent adaptive footprint shape The present invention relates to a radial ply tire (230) with a tread (232) subdivided transversely into a central portion (250) having central ribs (260a,260b), shoulder portions (254a, 254b) having shoulder ribs (270a,270b) and intermediate portions (25... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6561241 | Two piece tire with improved tire tread belt and carcass 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 a pair of lateral ends each axially extending beyond the inflated unloaded carcass 14 at the circumferential surface by... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6550509 | Tread and sidewall construction for runflat tire A radial ply runflat tire (50) having a tread (52), a carcass (60) with two sidewalls (77,78), one or more radial plies (70,72), two annular beads (36a',36b'), and a belt structure (56) located radially between the tread and the radial ply structure (58).... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6502611 | Pneumatic racing cart tire and manufacturing method thereof Disclosed is a pneumatic tire adopting a bias ply structure in which plural carcass layers are disposed so that cords cross each other between the layers, and having an aspect ratio of 55% or less and an outer diameter of 300 mm or less, wherein a cord an... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6488064 | Sacrificial ribs for improved tire wear The present invention provides a tire with a sacrificial rib to protect the main ribs of the tire's tread by delaying the onset of irregular wear and the growth thereof. The improved tire tread comprises a plurality of main ribs formed by grooves extendin... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6415837 | Pneumatic tire for wheels of multiple-track vehicles A pneumatic tire for a multiple-tracked vehicle is asymmetrical and has a convex tread section that is curved radially inward and extends to a tire sidewall.... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6408909 | Radial runflat passenger tire with improved tread contour with decoupling grooves A passenger tire having a tread, a casing with two sidewalls, one or more radial plies extending from and wrapped about two annular beads and a belt reinforcement structure located radially between the tread and the piles. The tread has a central rib with... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6408908 | Front tires and rear tires for automobile or light truck A pneumatic radial tire combination for four-wheeled automobile or light truck vehicles. The tire combination has a pair of front steer position tires and a pair of rear position tires. The front steer position tire 10 has a first tread arc 46 when the ti... | 06/25/2002 |
