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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347238 | Pneumatic tire with tread including chamfer portions A pneumatic tire having improved wet performance without sacrificing steering stability. A pair of central circumferential main grooves 14 and a pair of side circumferential main grooves 16 are arranged on a tread 12, to obtain a fundamentally h... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7246644 | Tyre for a vehicle wheel including specific tread patterns Winter tire for vehicle wheels, provided with a tread comprising three circumferential grooves and a plurality of transverse grooves which jointly delimit four circumferential rows of blocks, namely two axially outer shoulder rows and two center rows at the sides of... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7131475 | High and medium performance tire for vehicles A tire for a wheel of a vehicle includes a casing structure, a belt structure, and a tread band. A tread band pattern includes a central zone, two intermediate zones, and two shoulder zones. Each of the zones extends between planes that are substantially parallel to... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093631 | Multipurpose tire for a motor vehicle The tread of a multipurpose tire includes a central region and first and second shoulder regions. Circumferential grooves separate the central and shoulder regions. The central region includes first and second rows of blocks. The first and second rows are arranged b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7025100 | Pneumatic tire including blocks and splitting grooves A pneumatic tire is provided in the tread portion with a circumferential row of middle tread elements, wherein each of the middle tread elements is divided into four elemental blocks having different configurations, by three splitting grooves, and the three splittin... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6755227 | High-transverse-curvature tire, in particular for use in front wheels of motor-vehicles A high-transverse-curvature tire (1), in particular to be mounted on the front wheel of a motor-vehicle, which includes a belt structure (6) including, in a radially external layer (9a), a plurality of circumferential coils (7a | 06/29/2004 |
| 6748988 | Pneumatic tire having lug grooves A pneumatic tire having a tread pattern is provided, in which occurrence of uneven wear observed in a conventional lug-type tread pattern can be prevented without causing degradation in the various characteristics of the tire. The pneumatic tire having a tread patte... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6640858 | Tire having tread grooves having right-hand groove wall and left-hand groove wall A tire comprises a tread portion in which a mold parting line by a single-split mold runs on or near the tire equator. In a central part of the tread portion in which tread grooves are provided, the groove edges which are stroked by tire mold's protrusion... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6626215 | Pneumatic tire including long and narrow blocks with at least two sipes A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion provided with oblique grooves to define narrow and circumferentially long blocks therebetween, the oblique grooves inclined at angles θ of not more than 60 degrees with respect to the circumferential direction ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6595253 | Pneumatic tire including circumferential groove having alternate constant width portions and widening portions A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided between the tire equator and each tread edge with a continuous main circumferential groove and outer lateral grooves, the outer lateral grooves including alternately arranged wide lateral grooves and nar... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6523588 | Tire having tread including orientation of grooves changing across entire tread width A tire for a vehicle having at least one wheel at each corner, the tire comprising a non-longitudinal ground contacting tread extending axially between first and second axial edge regions and having tread grooves formed therein, wherein in the first axial... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6508283 | Trye having a tread band A tyre includes a tread band having at least two substantially parallel longitudinal grooves and at least one series of transverse grooves crossing the longitudinal grooves. The transverse and longitudinal grooves delimit at least two rows of shoulder blo... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6450223 | Pneumatic tire having improved wet traction A pneumatic tire having improved wet traction has two annular aquachannels. The tire has a wide, substantially square footprint, a distinctive tread pattern, and a new tread compound, and exhibits good QGL wet traction in addition to excellent hydroplanin... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6415836 | Pneumatic tire including axial grooves having different widths and tread elements having different lengths A pneumatic tire having an improved tread pattern which is capable of improving the steering stability, tire uniformity and the like without increasing a tread pattern noise is disclosed. The tire comprises rows of circumferentially arranged tread element... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6382283 | Tire for vehicle wheels including sipes A tire for vehicle wheels, provided with a tread band, includes a plurality of raised blocks confined between at least two longitudinal grooves, at least two transverse grooves meeting the longitudinal grooves, and a first and second series of sipes forme... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6343636 | Pneumatic tire including non-directional tread pattern A pneumatic tire which comprises a tread portion provided on each side of the tire equator with axial grooves extending axially inwardly from the tread edges, the axial grooves inclined to one direction with respect to the tire axial direction to form a n... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6340040 | Vehicle tire including main grooves and lug grooves A vehicle tire comprises circumferentially extending straight main grooves including a central main groove on the tire equator and an axially outer main groove on each side thereof, first lug grooves extending from the axially outer main grooves towards t... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6315018 | Pneumatic tire having sipe structured by narrow groove portion and wide groove portion A sipe formed in a block is structured, in a depthwise direction of the sipe, by a narrow groove portion formed at a ground-contact surface side of the sipe and a wide groove portion formed at a bottom portion side of the sipe and wider than the narrow wi... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6311748 | Tire for motor vehicle wheels having a tread producing a low rolling noise A tread for motor-vehicle tires has a raised pattern formed of a plurality of shaped blocks 7 distributed in circumferential rows 3, 4, 5, 6 disposed in parallel and in side by side relation. The number of the shaped blocks 7 arranged in each row graduall... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6311747 | High-transverse-curvature tire, in particular for use in rear wheels of motor-vehicles A high-transverse-curvature tire (1), in particular for mounting onto the rear wheel of motor-vehicles, comprises a tread band (8), coaxially extended around a belt structure (6), wherein a plurality of rubber blocks (10), defined between a plurality of g... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6298890 | Off-road tire An off-road pneumatic tire 10 having a tread 12 with a plurality of lugs 14, each lug 14 having a wide section 22 near at least one shoulder of the tread and a narrow section 24 crossing a centerline of the tread. In a preferred embodiment, each lug 14 ha... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6263933 | Industrial service agricultural tire A pneumatic agricultural tire (20) for an industrial type tractor or like vehicle has a plurality of central lugs (60) and a plurality of shoulder lugs (40, 50). The plurality of central lugs (60) are arranged in a circumferentially continuous row and ext... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6250354 | Vehicle tire including sipes extending across rib A vehicle tire includes a tread portion provided with a plurality of blocks and at least one circumferential rib, the circumferential rib having a first side face facing a circumferential groove and a second side face, and first side face being corrugated... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6200401 | Method of determining groove angle to give optimum tread wear A tire for a two-wheeled vehicle comprising a ground contacting tread having at least one tread groove formed therein and extending axially from the tread center to the tread edge, wherein in a first region of the tire tread, which is the central tread re... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6190478 | Method of manufacturing tire including grooves A tire for a vehicle having at least one wheel at each corner, the tire comprising a ground contacting tread extending axially between first and second edge regions and having tread grooves formed therein, wherein in the first axial edge region of the tre... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6129127 | Tyre having a tread band The described tread band (1) has laterally opposite transverse channels (6), each having a substantially rectilinear end stretch (6a) extending with an appropriate inclination from a respective outer side edge (1a), a connecting stretch (6c) of curvilinea... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6070631 | High-transverse-curvature tire, in particular for front wheels of motor-vehicles A high-transverse-curvature tire (1), in particular to be mounted on the front wheel of a motor-vehicle, comprises a belt structure (6) including, in a radially external layer (9a), a plurality of circumferential coils (7a), axially arranged side by side,... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6050313 | Pneumatic tire having sipes including at least three tie-bars A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion which is provided with a plurality of circumferential grooves extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction to axially divide the tread portion into a plurality of land portions, at least one of th... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5964266 | Tire for motor-vehicle wheels provided with a tread producing a low rolling noise A tread for motor-vehicle tires has a raised pattern formed of a plurality of shaped blocks 7 distributed in circumferential rows 3, 4, 5, 6 disposed in parallel and in side by side relation. The number of the shaped blocks 7 arranged in each row graduall... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5960845 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire having two main grooves in the tread that are provided symmetrically with the equatorial plane of the pneumatic tire and which extend in the circumferential direction of the pneumatic tire. The tread is divided into a central portion form... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5766383 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire with a low aspect ratio of 0.55 to 0.70 comprising a tread provided with four circumferential grooves disposed symmetrically about the tire equator plane to divide the tread into axially spaced five land portions, at least one of the five... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5616194 | Pneumatic radial tire having a tread pattern A pneumatic radial tire provides enhanced noise reduction and water releasing ability during driving by repetitious process of trapping air into the circumferential groove, formed on the tread as the air therein gets compressed and expanded before it gets... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5582661 | Tread for pneumatic vehicle tires A tread for pneumatic vehicle tires comprising a central row of tread blocks extending in the circumferential direction of the tire and rows of tread blocks arranged in the shoulder regions of the tire is described. The rows of blocks arranged in the shou... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5526860 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire has a block pattern which is divided by a center main groove extending straight on the tire equator, two outer main grooves extending straight outside the center main groove, inner lateral grooves crossing between the center and outer mai... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5454411 | Tread profile for winter tires A tread profile for winter tires of motor vehicles, in particular vehicles of the pickup truck or light truck class, includes at least four circumferentially extending longitudinal grooves and transverse grooves demarcating profile blocks. The transverse ... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5439040 | Pneumatic radial tire including a tread with tie bars The invention relates to a pneumatic radial tire that has a tread of straight grooves of broad and narrow widths and which is adapted to insure sufficient rigidity in the tread to provide better steering stability. Tie bars are provided in straight sub-gr... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5370168 | Radial tire having a tread provided with sub-circumferential longitudinal grooves A tread pattern of a radial tire for motor-vehicles offering high performance comprises oblique longitudinal grooves, inclined to the circumferential direction of the tire by an angle included between 2° and 20°, the opposite ends of said grooves being ... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5269357 | Reduced noise generating tread pattern for a tire A tire having a mid-circumferential plane and comprising a plurality of circumferentially arranged tread blocks for contacting a road surface. Surfaces define a pair of substantially parallel grooves extending transverse to the mid-circumferential plane o... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5109903 | Pneumatic tire having chamfered tread blocks Pneumatic tire characterized in the edge of each block formed on a tire tread surface is chamfered to a curve surface connecting to the tread surface in a curve form.... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5088536 | All season type tire tread An all season type tire tread (11) comprises a plurality of laterally extending grooves (36) having curved portions adjacent to each lateral edge (TE1, TE2) of the tread, said curved portions extending in circumferentially opposite directions. Axially spa... | 02/18/1992 |
