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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7316253 | Sealant for prevention of blowout, tubeless tire, and tire tube The viscosity of a puncture-preventing sealant (7) is set in a range of 25 to 35 dPa·s, and a thixotropy index is set in a range of 6.5 to 11.0, the sealant (7) being filled in a sealant chamber (6) defined to extend along an outer periphery of... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316252 | Modular tire A device for serving as a wheel for motor vehicles, where the wheel has its tire tread replaceable when it is worn out via unique rims and molded tire features. An alternate internal structure prevents the tire from “going flat” or “blowing out” when it is p... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7063115 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire which makes it possible to effectively prevent puncture during running without involving a large increase in weight or degradation of riding comfortability. This pneumatic tire has a plurality of films disposed in the manner of fish scales in at lea... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6935199 | Headspace gas sampling and venting method and arrangement, and filtering and sampling ports used therewith A headspace gas sampling and venting method utilizes a vent port and a sampling port which are punched through the lid of a drum containing hazardous materials, such as transuranic waste. In accordance with the system, a punch having a hollow passage therethrough, w... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6786990 | Method of manufacturing sealant-containing tires, and sealant-containing tire A green tire (24) prepared by superposing an inner liner (2) onto the inner surface of a tire body (1) is set in an upper die (29) and a lower die (30). In this condition, a pressure bag (31) placed inside the green tire ( | 09/07/2004 |
| 6672352 | Tube-incorporated tire In a tube whose internal space is partitioned by a partition wall to formed an air chamber filled with air and a sealant chamber filled with a sealant, the ratio R (R=B/A) of the length B of an outer circumference of the tube accommodated in the tire and ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6557603 | Tube for a tire A tube tire capable of simply, positively preventing the generation of a puncture due to contact of opposing portions of the wall surface of a tube. Double wall portions are formed at rim striking portions of a tube contained in a tire, and the internal s... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6530409 | Pneumatic tire including self-sealing material and method of manufacturing the same A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion in which an annular anti-adhesive sheet is embedded along the inside of the tire, the annular anti-adhesive sheet made of a material which does not firmly adhere to the adjacent rubber so as to form a bag-like po... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6338766 | Retention mold for bonding tire tube To make it possible to precisely bond a tube blank having thickened portions projecting from an outer wall surface of a retention mold. A tube blank is formed of natural rubber and is provided with an air chamber peripheral wall, a sealant chamber periphe... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6334918 | Tire tube A tube tire for avoiding damage to a tube in charging a sealant, and for preventing the sealant from plugging an air valve of the tube. A first tube half and a second tube half have the same side and circular cross sections are joined together as raw rubb... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6158489 | Tube tire A tube tire capable of simply, positively preventing the generation of a puncture due to contact of opposing portions of the wall surface of a tube. Double wall portions are formed at rim striking portions of a tube contained in a tire, and the internal s... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6106647 | Process for producing sealant-incorporated tire tube A tube blank 2' whose inside is divided into an air chamber 3 and a sealant chamber 7 by a partition wall 5 has an air relief port 41 provided in a sealant chamber peripheral wall 4o and communicating a sealant chamber 7. At a vulcanizing step,... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6019150 | Tire with tube containing sealant To provide a tire which allows the motor vehicle to continue operation even when both a tire body thereof and a tube mounted therein are damaged. A tire houses therein a tube which is compartmented into an inner circumferential air chamber filled with air... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5099900 | Self-healing tire system having an inner tube and a puncture sealant layer A self-healing tire system containing a tire casing, a tacky sealant material, an inner tube and anti-tack material is described. In one embodiment, either the surface of the inner tube or the inner surface of the tire casing is coated with the tacky seal... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4957573 | Method for placing an inner tube into a tire lined with sealant A self-healing tire containing an inner tube is obtained by a method comprising coating either the surface of the tube or the inner surface of a tire casing with a tacky, non-flowing sealant material. Prior to insertion of the inner tube, the surface of t... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4293018 | Tire for two-wheel vehicle A tire for two-wheel vehicle comprising a casing formed of a crown with a tread and two sidewalls each terminating in a bead intended to rest on a tire rim and an inner tube glued in manually removable manner to the inner wall of the casing in the region ... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4262724 | Low pressure and run-flat warning system for a pneumatic tire A pneumatic run-flat insert for a pneumatic tire is provided with circumferential sections having different radii. During vehicle operation in a run-flat condition the different insert radii cause a vibratory disturbance at a wheel axle that alerts the dr... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4032500 | Curable sealant two-component composition containing butyl rubber derived from isoolefin and open-chain conjugated diolefin Curable sealant two-component composition, each component being individually storage-stable and containing oil-extended low molecular weight uncured butyl rubber, said components being mixed together in a volume ratio of from about 1.0 to 1.0.... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4027712 | Tire filled with lubricant coated cellular particles A tire has its tire cavity filled with inexpensive lubricated light cellular particles and thereby avoids deformation and flattening of the tire upon loss of inflation pressure while maintaining vehicular control.... | 06/07/1977 |
