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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8365786 | Tire for heavy vehicle A tire for a heavy vehicle, with radial carcass reinforcement, having an outside radius R greater than 1000 mm, comprising a crown reinforcement radially interposed between the carcass reinforcement and the tread, said crown reinforcement having at least one protect... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8365785 | Heavy goods vehicle tire A tire with a crown reinforcement that comprises at least three plies of reinforcing elements. At least a first profiled element P1 has an axially outer end that is situated at a distance from the equatorial plane of the tire which is less than the distance s... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8091600 | Heavy duty pneumatic tire with wide-width belt layer convex portion A heavy duty pneumatic tire, which allows the inside narrow-width belt layers to have a wide width as desired, and which suppresses the amount of strain generated at side edge portions of the belt layer to be sufficiently small thereby effectively preventing the sep... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7712500 | Pneumatic tire with cushion rubber and method for producing the same A pneumatic tire 1 having improved uniformity and durability and including a toroidal carcass 6 extending from a tread portion 2 to each of bead cores 5 in bead portions 4 through sidewall portions 3, a belt layer 7 d... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7500501 | Crown reinforcement for a radial tire A tire includes comprising a radial carcass reinforcement surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement including a working reinforcement. The working reinforcement includes two working crown plies of calendered inextensible metalic reinforcement elements and rubber ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7461678 | Crown reinforcement for a radial tire A tire includes a radial carcass reinforcement surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement including a working reinforcement having two working crown plies of calendered inextensible metallic reinforcement elements and rubber mix. The reinforcement elements are par... | 12/09/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7438103 | Pneumatic tire with side reinforcement rubber layer and tread reinforcement rubber layer A pneumatic tire that improves riding comfort under normal driving conditions, and improves durability under run-flat conditions, while inhibiting a weight increase. This pneumatic tire includes a carcass layer and belt layer. The carcass layer contains two or more ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432337 | Rubber composition for coating a carcass cord and a carcass cord coated thereby The present invention provides a rubber composition for coating carcass cord improving adhesive property to the carcass cord and further suppressing the crack growth, heat generation and lowering of rubber property, and a carcass cord coated thereby. A rubber compos... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7306021 | Pneumatic radial tire with belt reinforcing layer between carcass layer and belt layer A belt durability is improved by effectively suppressing an interlayer separation between each widthwise outer end portion of a belt reinforcing layer 41 and a belt layer 34, in which each widthwise outer end 45 of one widest-width inner belt pl... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7281553 | Tire with compression-bearing hoop structure A pneumatic radial ply tire incorporating a crown reinforcing structure comprises at least one reinforcing hoop located approximately on the equatorial plane and disposed radially inward of the tread and radially outward of the carcass structure. The hoop is surroun... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7258149 | Tire for motorcycle A tire containing a carcass ply formed along a tread portion, a shoulder portion and a sidewall portion. The carcass ply is reinforced by a belt ply and a band ply and the belt ply includes a fold-back portion. A buffer layer is formed between the belt ply and the b... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7243695 | Crown reinforcement for a radial tire The invention relates to a tire in which at least one first profiled element P of rubber mix separates the axially widest ply of reinforcement elements from at least one end of a second ply, axially narrower than the axially widest ply, the axially outer end of said... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7201194 | Non-pneumatic tire A structurally supported tire includes a ground contacting tread portion, a reinforced annular band disposed radially inward of the tread portion, and a plurality of web spokes extending transversely across and radially inward from the reinforced annular band and an... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7165584 | Rubber compositions and vulcanizates comprising nylon-containing copolymers A tire comprising a tread, where the tread includes a vulcanized rubber, from about 5 to about 80 parts by weight of a nylon-containing block copolymer per 100 parts by weight of the vulcanized rubber, and from about 1 to about 100 parts by weight filler per 100 par... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7132481 | Composite of melamine derivative and carbon black, rubber composition and article having a component thereof This invention relates to a composite of a melamine derivative, particularly a liquid melamine derivative, and carbon black. A representative melamine derivative is, for example, comprised of an alkoxymethylmelamine such as hexamethoxymethylmelamine. The invention f... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7122592 | Adhesion promoters for cord-reinforced thermoplastic polymeric materials and substrate/thermoplastic polymeric material composites A thermoplastic polymeric material composition including a thermoplastic polymeric material selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic polymer and a thermoplastic polymer alloy, an adhesive resin, and a long chain ester, particularly dimerate and trimerat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7094302 | Method of forming a belt structure in a tire, in particular for motorcycle wheels A method of forming a belt structure for a tire includes forming at least one laying layer of elastomer material on an outer surface of a support mandrel and helically winding up at least one continuous bare cord on the at least one laying layer to form a plurality ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7077182 | Run-flat tire A run-flat tire comprises: a carcass comprising a carcass ply of cords extending between bead portions and turned up around a bead core in each bead portion from the inside to outside of the tire so as to form a pair of turnup port... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7060146 | Method of manufacturing pneumatic tire A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire comprises assembling unvulcanized rubber components to make a green tire, vulcanizing the green tire, and winding an unvulcanized rubber tape so that the windings collectively have a predetermined cross sectional shape for ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7028734 | Truck tire with cap/base construction tread A pneumatic tire comprising a tread, the tread comprising a tread cap and a tread base in a tread base to tread cap volume ratio ranging from about 0.25 to about 1; the tread cap comprising, based on 100 parts by weight rubber (phr): 100 phr of cis 1,4 polyisoprene ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021350 | Pneumatic run-flat tire with porous elastomeric layer Disclosed is a pneumatic run-flat tire. The tire has at least one carcass reinforcing ply, at least one pair of sidewall wedge inserts, and a belt reinforcing structure. The belt reinforcing structure is formed from at least a pair of cross cord belt reinforcing pli... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6976518 | Pneumatic radial tires In a pneumatic radial tire comprising a belt of at least two belt layers, in which the belt comprises a maximum-width belt layer containing many cords slantly arranged with respect to an equatorial plane of the tire and a narrow-width belt layer arranged at the outs... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6969737 | Adhesion promoter for cord-reinforced rubber and metal or polymer substrate/rubber composites 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... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6959746 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire including a carcass, a belt arranged at the outside of the carcass in a radial direction and having at least two belt layers, at least one belt reinforcing layer arranged so as to overlap with the belt and extend over a widthwise outer end thereof, ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6938657 | Tire for a vehicle wheel capable of withstanding the load at low pressure or zero pressure A tire for a vehicle wheel, capable of withstanding the load at low pressure or zero pressure, includes a carcass, a crown, two axially opposed sidewalls, two bead cores, two compression-resistant annular reinforcing elements, and, optionally, a belt structure. The ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938659 | Runflat tire having crown-reinforcing insert extending into the sidewalls A pneumatic tire has a crown-reinforcing insert which extends from under the tread substantially, such as at least one-third of the sidewall height, into the sidewall of the tire. Apexes extend from the beads substantially, such as at least one-third of the sidewall... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6889736 | 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... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6883570 | Tire with double half-carcasses and low-profile crown reinforcements A tire comprising at least one reinforcement structure of carcass type anchored on each side of the tire in a bead, a crown reinforcement, each bead being extended radially towards the outside by a sidewall, said reinforcement structure being discontinuous over at l... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6883571 | Tire with double half-carcasses and adapted crown zone A tire comprising at least one reinforcement structure of carcass type anchored on each side of the tire in a bead, a crown reinforcement, sidewalls meeting up radially towards the outside with a tread, the carcass-type reinforcement structure extending circumferent... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6868878 | Pneumatic tire including belt cushion section and having conductive path between belt layer and carcass and method of making same A pneumatic tire constructed with an electrically conductive tire tread that defines a channel extending radially inward through a tread base rubber having a relatively high electrical resistivity so as to provide a conductivity path to a belt layer within the tire.... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6820666 | Tire, including fiber-reinforced elastomeric intermediate layer between the belt structure and tread band, and method of making the tire A pneumatic tire for vehicle wheels includes a radial carcass, a tread band, sidewalls and beads, and a belt structure. The tread band is provided with grooves on its surface for coming into contact with the ground and situated on a radial outer surface of the carca... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6805177 | High performance tire with tread band having an anisotropic underlayer stable with temperature variation A high performance tire includes a carcass provided with at least one carcass ply, a belt including two or more layers of reinforcing cords parallel to each other in a layer and crossed with respect to those of an adjacent layer, applied circumferentially on the car... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6792986 | Underlay structure for increased crown stiffening The present invention is a crown-stiffening underlay structure comprised of a flat strip of elastomeric material reinforced with essentially inextensible cords. The cord-reinforced flat strip is wrapped helically around the green tire carcass prior to blowup into th... | 09/21/2004 |
