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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8097201 | Bisplit mold for tire forming and process for manufacturing tire therewith Provided is a bisplit mold for tire forming capable of avoiding the pinching of the unvulcanized tire at the mold clamping. Also provided is a process for manufacturing a tire by use of the bisplit mold. The bisplit mold includes: a plurality of segments provided to... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7972550 | Method of increasing the load capacity of a radial tire An underground mine tire 20 having a nominal bead diameter of 20.0 inches or less has a carcass, a tread 25 and a pair of rubber sidewalls 23, each extending along the outer periphery of the carcass 21 below the tread 25. The tire ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7910043 | Tire building and cure station coupling apparatus and method A tire building and cure station coupling apparatus and method for molding a green tire into a finished tire having a tread pattern. The green tire is constructed on a toroidally shaped core formed by a plurality of core segments each having an outer surface portion... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7901608 | Tire vulcanizing method and vulcanizer for performing the method A bladder is made to be expandable and contractible at a vulcanization position within a lower mold assembly and to be expandable and contractible also at a tire delivery position which is spaced a predetermined distance from the vulcanization position along a cente... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7833461 | Process for molding noise-attenuating protuberances on an internal surface of a tire Process for molding and vulcanizing a tire, in which a tire blank is placed in a curing press including a mold intended to form the outer shape of the tire, and a pressing member for transmitting the molding pressure and the heat needed to vulcanize the internal por... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7740788 | Method of correcting shape of green tire and apparatus for carrying out the same The shapes of the upper tire bead Bu and the lower tire bead Bl of a green tire G and the axial distance between the tire beads Bu and Bl are corrected in a short work time. The green tire G is placed in horizontal attitude on a green tire support table 3 pro... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7648668 | Apparatus for manufacturing pneumatic tires An apparatus for manufacturing a pneumatic tire including a rigid core for forming a green tire on an outer face and a vulcanizing mold which can transport the green tire together with the rigid core such that the vulcanizing mold is closed to form a vulcanization s... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7459117 | Method for curing tires using a self-locking tire mold A segmented mold 2 for molding a tire 100 is described which has a central axis; plurality of radially movable tread forming segments; two sidewall forming plates, a top sidewall forming plate 8, and a bottom sidewall forming plate 6; a t... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7442335 | Apparatus and method for loading and unloading a tire press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7416694 | Method and apparatus for preheating raw tire The disclosed information describes a preheating method and apparatus for preheating raw tire including metal members embedded therein prior to vulcanization molding process, to heat whole part of the raw tire up to desirable temperature rapidly and certainly to com... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416396 | Tire forming mold and pneumatic tire producing method using the same Provided are a tire forming mold which enables damage on ribs and blocks of a tire to be effectively prevented when the tire is removed from the tire forming mold in spite of a simple structure thereof, and a pneumatic tire producing method using the same. The tire ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7329325 | Method of manufacturing a tire comprising at least one insert A method of manufacturing a tire (3), which includes a crown (5) having a molded tread pattern, and at least one insert (6) with a position that is set relative to the molded tread pattern. The method includes building an uncured tire around a c... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7281555 | Off-the-road tire The invention is to improve wear resistance and resistance to crack growth of an off-the-road tire having a gauge of a tread rubber of 60-200 mm, in which a plurality of widthwise grooves extending substantially in a widthwise direction of the tire are arranged in e... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276198 | Method and mold for making tire with tie bar A tire having an outer surface and plurality of circumferential and lateral grooves formed into the outer surface. The circumferential and lateral grooves extend to at least one groove depth to define a groove bottom surface. The circumferential and lateral grooves ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276196 | Process for manufacturing a track and stripping device A process for manufacturing a track formed from a circumferentially continuous belt made of elastomeric material and including an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is provided with a plurality of drive blocks uniformly arranged on the circumferen... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261785 | Process and mold for depositing a colored motif on a tire A process of depositing at least one uncured colored rubber mix forming a contrasting motif on an outer surface of a tire includes preparing a blank of the uncured tire to be moulded, including all the constituents except for the colored rubber mix(es), depositing t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258829 | Tire curing system and method This invention relates to a tire curing system having a plurality of molds disposed in side by side relation, transporting means for transporting green tires to the tire curing system, loading means for loading a green tire into a bottom mold half of one of the mold... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255320 | Mold for a plastic filter A mold, for molding a cylindrical filter having a narrow-pitched mesh structure through resin injection molding, has a cavity divided into sections radially freely attachable/detachable. The sections of the cavity being formed as stacked assemblies bodies each havin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249497 | Apparatus and method for predicting tire life relative to belt-leaves-belt failures A test fixture, test apparatus, and test method utilize a radially cut tire section that is mounted and sealed to a test jig in a airtight manner such that an air chamber is formed between an innerliner surface of the radial tire section and a recessed portion of th... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245985 | Process and apparatus for improving and controlling the vulcanization of natural and synthetic rubber compounds A process for curing a natural or synthetic rubber compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a non-bridged impedance sensing circuit and a capacitor having the rubber compound... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238249 | Producing method of high speed FV reducing tire It is an object of the present invention to reduce a high speed FV n-order component of a completed tire by specifying a mounting phase of a raw tire with respect to a vulcanization mold. A variation amount of a total gage of a tread portion of each of non-vulcanize... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234927 | Tire forming mold and pneumatic tire producing method using the same Provided are a tire forming mold which enables damage on ribs and blocks of a tire to be effectively prevented when the tire is removed from the tire forming mold in spite of a simple structure thereof, and a pneumatic tire producing method using the same. The tire ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226341 | Method of manufacturing laminated mold and laminated mold For manufacturing the laminated mold comprising the laminate (11) being formed of a plurality of thin sheets (11a) laminated on each other, laminate the thin sheets with the excess portions of respective thin sheets exceeding the profile of the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7189069 | Mold for forming an annular tread belt A segmented annular mold for forming a tread belt having a reinforcing belt structure, the belt structure having a radial thickness (t) is disclosed. The mold has a plurality of radially movable and outwardly expandable inner segments for forming the inner surface o... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7161476 | Electronic tire management system An electronic tire maintenance system is provided for measuring a parameter of a device at a first location. The system includes a sensor for measuring the device parameter and generating a data signal representing the measured parameter. The system also includes a ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7131625 | Ejector pin and method An insert for a mold comprising a plug, having an insert face, and a receiver defined by a sidewall with one of the plug and the receiver having a groove that receives a guide that extends from the other of the plug and the receiver so as to facilitate rotation of t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125511 | Venting device which stops the spews on the tire A blocking member for use in a vent bore in a mold for the manufacture of technical rubber products, in particular to the manufacture of vehicle tires, wherein each blocking member has a tubular hollow body which can be fixed in force-transmitting manner in the resp... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7118702 | Tire mold The tire mold comprises a laminated peripheral crown having a stack in the circumferential direction of a plurality of thin sheets. Cutouts distributed over several adjacent sheets increase the venting ability of the mold. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7050605 | Designing tread with fractal characteristics A methodology is provided for designing traction surfaces intended to grip and provide traction on substrate surfaces. Fractal geometry is used to design tire treads, shoe treads, elastomeric traction surfaces, drive rollers, friction wheels for material locomotion ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7021914 | Tire mold A tire mold including a molding face for shaping the outside of a tire and a vent structure, wherein the vent structure contains a hole having an opening in the molding face, an inserted piece disposed in the hole so that the surface of the inserted piece defines a ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7005022 | Method of manufacturing strip of unvulcanized rubber compound A method of manufacturing a strip of unvulcanized rubber compound including short fibers oriented towards specific directions is disclosed, and the method comprises: extruding a mixture of unvulcanized rubber and short fibers to form a strip of the mixture and to or... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7001163 | Mold and method of molding annular tread An annular mold for curing an annular ring tread is disclosed. The annular mold has a plurality of radially movable and outwardly expandable inner segments for forming the inner surface of the tread and a plurality of radially movable and inwardly contracting outer ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001559 | Production of pneumatic tires A method of highly efficiently producing pneumatic tires, wherein both bead portions (B) of a green tire (G) are supported by a pair of holders (24, 50) and opposite axial ends of a bladder (25) are tightly attached to the holders (24, 50), resp... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6982050 | Rubber composition which is free of carcinogenic nitrosamine precursor and serves as connecting rubber A rubber composition which is free of precursor of at least one carcinogenic nitrosamine, is capable of vulcanization at a temperature of between 95° C. and 140° C., and has a vulcanization system which includes: a) sulfur; ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6955782 | Method of molding a tire and mold therefor A tire molding method as disclosed wherein a segmented mold (2) has lugs (40) in the shoulder regions of the segments (4) with complimentary lug extensions (30) in the sidewall forming annular rings (6,8). The lug extensions (30... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6949213 | Vulcanizing mold for pneumatic tires A vulcanizing mold for pneumatic tires includes upper and lower base plates, upper and lower sidewall mold members attached to the upper and lower base plates, respectively; and upper and lower tread mold members attached to the upper and lower base plates, respecti... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6949211 | Means of manufacturing plural optimized cogged drive belts A multi-ribbed power transmission belt having longitudinal grooves and transverse grooves that form a plurality of cogs on the belt surface defined between adjacent transverse grooves is provided. The pitch lengths of the rows of cogs are randomized or sequenced ove... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6926054 | Anchoring of a tire carcass Tire containing a crown, two sidewalls and two beads, a carcass reinforcement with first reinforcing cords placed adjacent, aligned circumferentially in at least one circumferential alignment from at least one of said beads to one of said sidewalls and anchored in s... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6921447 | Dynamic pitch correction in press cured power transmission belts A method for manufacturing a cured, toothed belt is carried out upon a on a belt-making machine. The method includes incrementally molding sections of the belt with tooth spacing based on an estimated pitch circumference derived from a measured inside circumference,... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6908584 | Apparatus and method for locking a tire vulcanizing press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 06/21/2005 |
