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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7934527 | Pneumatic radial tire with spiral belt layer for two-wheeled motor vehicle Provided is a pneumatic radial tire including a carcass layer composed of a carcass ply 12 and a spiral belt layer 26 composed of steel cords wound spirally substantially in parallel with each other to a tire equator surface. When the ratio of spacing ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7905265 | Aircraft tire with composite cables An aircraft tire inflated to high pressure and including a tread and a crown reinforcement in the form of composite textile cables which form at least one twin ply of two layers of crossed elements obtained by winding, in a zigzag around a cylindrical support and fr... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7882878 | Radial tire for airplane A radial tire for airplane comprises a pair of bead cores, a radial carcass, and a belt disposed on an outer periphery of a crown portion of the radial carcass and comprised of plural belt layers each containing organic fiber cords, in which a total strength in a ci... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7823616 | Pneumatic radial tire with belt reinforcing layer cord having specified heat shrinkage stress This invention relates to a pneumatic radial tire being excellent in steering stabilities during low-speed running and high-speed running, and more particularly to a pneumatic radial tire comprising at least one belt reinforcing layer 6A, 6B disposed o... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7798189 | Radial tire for airplane with zigzag belt cord having specified heat shrinkage stress A radial tire for airplane comprises a pair of bead cores, a radial carcass, and a belt disposed on an outer periphery of a crown portion of the radial carcass and comprised of plural belt layers each containing organic fiber cords, in which a total strength in a ci... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7712499 | Pneumatic radial tire with specified belt layer In the pneumatic radial tire of the present invention, a total strength K0 of a belt layer 20 in a circumferential direction of the tire per unit of width at a tire equator surface position P0 is set greater than a total strength of the belt lay... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7584774 | Pneumatic radial tire with polyethylene terephthalate cord belt reinforcing layer This invention relates to a pneumatic radial tire having low road noise and flat spot and a high high-speed durability, and more particularly to a pneumatic radial tire comprising a radial carcass (5), a belt (6) disposed outside a crown portion of the... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7559349 | Pneumatic tire with circumferential and transversal reinforcement layers A pneumatic tire to effectively enhance the transversal stiffness and prevented the carcass from breaking before the other reinforcement members break is provided. A tread rubber is arranged radially outwardly on the crown portion of the carcass. A belt consisting o... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7552753 | Tire for a vehicle wheel comprising at least one single strand metallic reinforcing cord A tire for a vehicle wheel includes at least one metallic reinforcing cord comprising a single strand of elementary filaments preformed by sinusoidal waving and wound together. The number of filaments is greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 8. A diam... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7448423 | Tire for heavy machinery including at least three half-plies on each side of crown reinforcement A tire with a radial carcass reinforcement intended to equip a heavy vehicle such as a transport vehicle or construction machinery, the tire having an axial width grater than 37 inches. The tire includes a working crown reinforcement having at least two continuous p... | 11/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7377155 | Method for approximating tire flat spot decay and magnitude using regressive analysis An improved method for determining an initial flat spot magnitude on a tire that has been resting for a period of time on a substantially flat surface uses regression analysis. In accordance with the method, values of a tire flat spot magnitude for a particular type... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7320350 | Sidewall reinforcing layer for pneumatic tires A pneumatic tire may include a floating reinforcing layer disposed between a body ply and the sidewall of the tire. The reinforcing layer may extend from a point beneath the rim flange of the wheel to a point just above or below the maximum section width of the tire... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316175 | Reduced-bulk, enhanced-resilience, lower-drag netting Netting (15) includes mesh bars (26) made from twines (11, 13) which possess physical properties that vary, change or alternate along a series of collinear mesh bars (26). The non-homogeneous media obtained by arranging in this way mesh b... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308923 | Dipped cord using hybrid cord and a radial tire using the same It is an object of the present invention to provide a hybrid dip cord consisting of rayon yarn and lyocell yarn to apply to the carcass ply or cap ply (belt reinforced layer) of pneumatic radial tire used in a car and a radial tire using the same. And also, accordin... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7267149 | Pneumatic tire with improved crown durability Pneumatic tires for service on heavy vehicles having a belt package with widened belts. The tire includes a belt reinforcing structure or belt package having multiple cut belts of which one of the cut belts has a width approximately equal to the tire footprint. Wide... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7251922 | Tire reinforcing steel cord and tire A zero degree tire reinforcing steel cord is formed by twisting together four to seven individual wires having a wire diameter of 0.20 to 0.45 mm, wherein the steel cord has a substantially spiral or a substantially planar wavy deformation, has an elongation of 1.2%... | 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 |
| 7188655 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire including a radial carcass (5) of at least one carcass ply including a main body portion (3a) and a turnup portion (3b), and a reinforcing member (7) including at least two reinforcing layers. The at least t... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188654 | Ply with strength carriers embedded in a rubber mixture and vehicle pneumatic tires with a belt bandage thereof Belt bandage for a vehicle pneumatic tire that includes a ply having strength carriers embedded in an unvulcanized rubber mixture. The strength carriers run essentially parallel to one another. Each strength carrier includes a hybrid cord that has a first twisted ya... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7172000 | Crown reinforcement with shoulder ply A tire intended to be fitted on a vehicle bearing a heavy load, such as a lorry, construction vehicle and/or aircraft, which tire comprises a carcass reinforcement radially surmounted by a crown reinforcement and a tread. The crown reinforcement is composed of at le... | 02/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7165586 | Pneumatic tire with blended composite fiber cords Disclosed is a tire having at least one reinforcing ply in the carcass, belt, or bead region of the tire. The reinforcing ply is comprised of a blended fiber cord. The cords, in combination with a preferred cure temperature adhesive, achieve a high degree of thermal... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156138 | Pneumatic tire with belt ply having composite topping rubber layer A pneumatic tire includes a carcass extending between bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions and a belt disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion, the belt constituting at least one belt ply made of parallel cords embedded in a ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7144937 | Adhesion promoters for sealants A sealant composition comprising a sealant, an adhesive resin, and a long chain ester, particularly dimerate and trimerate esters, is capable of unexpected adhesion to substrates such as ceramic substrates (e.g., concrete), glass substrates, metal substrates such as... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138450 | Vulcanized rubber composition with a liquid adhesion promoter containing an adhesive resin and ester A rubber composition including a natural or synthetic rubber, and an adhesive resin capable of unexpected adhesion to metal, polymer and glass substrates, particularly cords in radical tires, hoses, conveyor belts, transmission belts, and the like by the addition of... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7131257 | Metal cord and pneumatic tire including the same A metal cord for reinforcing rubber articles and a pneumatic tire including metal cords to reinforce tire components such as carcass, breaker and band are disclosed, wherein a metal cord according to one aspect of the present invention comprises filaments having a t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127878 | Controlled failure rope systems and methods A controlled failure rope and method of making the same. The controlled failure rope comprises first and second portions. The first portion is formed of a first material having a first set of tension failure characteristics. The second portion is formed of a second ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127879 | Ply-twisted yarn for cut resistant fabrics A ply-twisted yarn useful in cut resistant fabrics is made by providing a first multifilament yarn of continuous organic filaments having a tensile strength of at least 4 grams per denier and having a twist in a first direction of from 0.5 to 10 turns per inch; prov... | 10/31/2006 |
