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| 20080216932 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A pneumatic tire is provided in which the degree of freedom in designing markings shown on external surfaces thereof is enhanced without depending upon engraved letters on a conventional mold so as to meet requests from individual users while increasing the visibility of the markings so shown. In a pneumatic tire having markings on external surfaces thereof, thermoplastic resin films of which a center line average surface roughness (Ra) of a surface is in the range of 0.1 to 1.5 μm are affixed to predetermined positions on external surfaces of a green tire of the tire and the green tire is then vulcanization molded, whereby markings are formed. Surfaces of the markings are made up of a specular surface of which Ra is in the range of 0.1 to 1.5 μm, and a background portion | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080245459 | Method for estimating tire force acting on rolling tire - A method for estimating the magnitude of a tire force acting on a rolling tire is disclosed, wherein: using at least seven sensors mounted on a tire sidewall portion, surface strain is simultaneously measured at seven measuring positions; with respect to a combination of the seven measuring positions, a coefficient matrix representing correlation with seven force components is defined, and a equation including the coefficient matrix is defined; using the data on the surface strain measured with the sensors, the equation is computed to find at least one of the seven force components, e.g. air pressure. The estimated air pressure is compared with a reference pressure, to determine whether the tire pressure is dropped or not. Further, a secondary sensor is mounted in a peculiar region where the surface strain is substantially not affected by the vertical load. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080283169 | Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire is provided in which markings shown on surfaces of side walls thereof have superior visibility and the effect of increased visibility can be maintained over a long period of time. In a pneumatic tire having a marking provided on a side wall, a marking area which includes the marking and a background portion of the marking is formed into a recessed plane which is recessed further inwards than the surface of the side wall in an axial direction of the tire, and the marking is formed in the marking area in the form of a projecting plane which is provided in such a manner as to project relative to the recessed plane. The surface of the marking is made up of a specular surface portion having a surface roughness in which a center line average surface roughness (Ra) is in the range of 0.4 to 1.5 μm, and the background portion is made up of a rough surface portion whose surface roughness exceeds a surface roughness in which Ra is 1.5 μm. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080289740 | Rubber Composition and Pneumatic Tire Using Same - This invention relates to a rubber composition having a high storage modulus (G′) and a low loss tangent (tan δ), and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising 2 to 60 parts by mass of a low-molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-conjugated diene compound copolymer (B) having an aromatic vinyl compound content of 5 to 80% by mass, a vinyl bond content in a conjugated diene compound portion of 5 to 80% by mass, a weight average molecular weight as measured through a gel permeation chromatography and converted to polystyrene of 5,000 to 500,000 and at least one functional group based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component (A) composed of at least one of natural rubber and synthetic diene-based rubbers. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080302459 | Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire ( | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080314489 | Large-Sized Foam Inner Tube for a Tire - Inner tube for an inflatable assembly consisting of a tire and of a rim, the said chamber consisting of material of the foam type, characterized in that the said chamber has a length Lc of the normal section of the inner tube greater than the length Lpi of the internal cross section of the corresponding tire mounted on its rim and that in contact with the internal air. This then yields the relationship Lc>Lpi and, in an alternative form, Lc=Lpi. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080314490 | Low Permeability Rubber Laminate and Pneumatic Tire Using the Same - A low permeability rubber laminate having an excellent bondability, air pressure retaining property and durability and containing (A) at least one low permeability resin layer having an average thickness d of 0.05 μm≦d≦5 μm containing an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene composition ratio of 20 to 50 mol % and a degree of saponification of 90% or more and (B) at least one diene-based rubber composition layer containing 1 to 25 parts by weight of a silane-based coupling agent having a functional group reactive with rubber and having an alkoxysilyl group, based upon 100 parts by weight of the diene-based rubber and a pneumatic tire using the same as an inner liner. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090008012 | PNEUMATIC TIRE, ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - High-speed durability of a pneumatic tire is maintained and abrasion is improved by making a cornering force hardly affecting on the tire. A tread is formed by winding narrow-width ribbon-like rubber members ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090020202 | Method and Device for Manufacturing and Placing a Circumferential Reinforcement for a Tire and Tire Obtained According to Said Process - A method of manufacturing a circumferential reinforcement for a tire, said reinforcement comprising at least one thread ( | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090032159 | Pneumatic Tire And Its Fabricating Method - Two kinds or more of resin films having different surface roughnesses are pasted to an outer surface of a side portion of an unvulcanized tire, the unvulcanized tire is vulcanized and molded in a state of pasting the resin films, thereby, a pneumatic tire provided with two kinds or more of the resin films at the outer surface of the tire side portion to be able to be exfoliated therefrom is fabricated. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090044892 | Tire with Component Having Combination Plasticizer - The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising at least one component, the at least one component comprising a rubber composition, the rubber composition comprising at least one diene based elastomer and a combination plasticizer comprising a polyester phthalate and dibutoxy ethyl adipate. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090065117 | TYRE COMPRISING AN EPOXIDIZED ELASTOMERIC POLYMER AND CROSSLINKABLE ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITION - A tyre includes at least one structural element obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable elastomeric composition including: (a) a crosslinkable elastomeric base comprising at least 10 phr, preferably from 30 phr to 100 phr, of (a | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090071585 | Low Noise Pneumatic Tire - Provided is a low noise pneumatic tire in which the noise absorbing member on the inner peripheral surface of the tire is made less likely to be damaged when the pneumatic tire is removed from the rim. The pneumatic tire includes a noise absorbing member of a porous material which is attached to an inner peripheral surface of the tire. In the pneumatic tire, a lubricant is applied to the inner peripheral surface of the noise absorbing member. Alternatively, both end portions, in a tire width direction, of the inner peripheral surface of the noise absorbing member are covered with protective layers harder than the noise absorbing member. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090090446 | TIRE NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - Disclosed is a tire noise reduction device to be mounted on the inner surface of the tread portion of a pneumatic tire facing its cavity. The tire noise reduction device includes an annular fixing elastic band and sound absorbing members disposed on the inner surface of the tread portion opposite to each other at two locations around its circumference by the fixing elastic band. The fixing elastic band has an outer peripheral length L defined in a certain range in relationship with the mass Wa of the sound absorbing members, the total mass We of the tire noise reduction device, and the inner peripheral length Li of the tire. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090114327 | COMPOSITION BASED ON SILOXANE FOR THE MOULDING/UNMOULDING OF TYRES - The invention relates to compositions in the form of silicon oil emulsion to be applied to curing bladders as an adhesion primer during the production of tyres. The invention also relates to curing bladders coated by an inventive adhesion primer. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090151836 | Tire wheel assembly - Provided is a tire wheel assembly making it possible to effectively reduce cavity resonance noise without causing either negative influence on deformation of a tire or deterioration in rim assembling workability. A tire wheel assembly of the present invention includes a pneumatic tire, and a wheel provided with a rim fitted with the pneumatic tire, and forms a cavity portion between the pneumatic tire and the rim. The tire wheel assembly comprises at least one tube, which has one end thereof closed while having a length of 55% to 110% of a reference length L | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090151837 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND CONFIGURATION FOR REDUCING A TIRE NOISE - A pneumatic tire is provided for reducing a tire noise having an annular cavity and at least one acoustic damper, situated in the cavity, made of an open-celled material. The acoustic damper is removably connected to an inner face of the pneumatic tire facing toward the cavity using at least one removably connectable connection device. Furthermore, a wheel rim is provided having a pneumatic tire drawn thereon, an annular cavity being shaped between wheel rim and pneumatic tire, as well as at least one acoustic damper made of open-celled material, which is situated in the cavity, which is distinguished in that the acoustic damper is removably connected on an inner face facing toward the cavity using at least one removably connectable connection device. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090183811 | MOLD FOR VULCANIZATION OF TIRE - Provided is a mold for vulcanization of a tire which does not entail troublesome work including removing vent spews, and which does not spoil the external appearance of the tire with the spews, as well as prevents light failures from occurring in the tire. Vent grooves ( | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090183812 | UNIVERSAL BODY-SUPPORT FOR PNEUMATIC TREAD - A universal body-support for pneumatic tread is presented as a finished part for tailored application of any type of tread in which usual frame if formed by talons wings and flat area presenting bearing area and not having tread and tread having base layer coated by an elastomeric layer, compatible to the elastomeric layer, having self-adhesive characteristics and is protected against oxidation and contaminants by a film made of removable plastic material or by braided thread layer. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090211683 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided is a pneumatic tire having an improved driving stability with reduced weight by use of an inner liner layer including a film made of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composition obtained by blending a thermoplastic resin with an elastomer. A pneumatic tire of the present invention includes: a pair of bead portions; a carcass layer bridged between the pair of bead portions; a belt layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer; an inner liner layer disposed along an inner surface of the carcass layer, the inner liner layer including a film made of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composition that is obtained by blending a thermoplastic resin with an elastomer; and bead cores buried in the bead portions, respectively. The inner liner layer is wound up around the bead cores from an inner side of the tire to an outer side thereof. At least one wound-up part of the inner liner layer extends to a position where the wound-up part overlaps the belt layer. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090218024 | CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING TIE LAYER - This disclosure relates to a vulcanizable layered composition comprising at least two layers and at least one tie layer, wherein the first layer of the two layers comprises an fluid permeation prevention layer, the second layer of the two layers comprises at least one high diene rubber, and the tie layer comprises a mixture of: (1) about 50 to about 100 weight % of at least one halogenated isobutylene containing elastomer; (2) about 0 to about 50 weight % of at least one high diene elastomer; (3) about 20 to about 50 weight % of at least one filler; (4) about 0 to about 30 weight % of at least one processing oil; (5) about 1 to about 20 parts per hundred (phr) of at least one tackifier; and (6) at least about 0.2 to about 15 parts per hundred of rubber (phr) of a curing system for the elastomers; wherein THE fluid permeation prevention layer preferably comprises: (A) at least 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the polymer composition, of at least one thermoplastic engineering resin component, preferably one or more nylon resins; and (B) at least 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the polymer composition, of at least one elastomer component, preferably a brominated isobutylene p-methylstyrene copolymer, and where the total amount of the component (A) and the component (B) is not less than 30% by weight based on the total weight of the polymer composition, wherein the elastomer component (B) is dispersed in a vulcanized or partially vulcanized state, as a discontinuous phase, in a matrix of the thermoplastic resin component (A) in the polymer composition. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090250150 | Tire having a coated surface - A tire includes at least one outer structural element, wherein the at least one outer structural element is at least partially coated by at least one coating layer including a crosslinked composition obtained by reacting: (a) at least one polysulfide polymer; (b) at least one thermoplastic polymer having at least one hydroxyl group; with (c) at least one polyisocyanate. Preferably, the at least one structural element is at least one of the tire sidewalls. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090266461 | RUBBER COMPOSITE AND TIRES MADE BY USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a rubber composite constituted of at least two layers of members comprising a rubber composition containing a diene base rubber cross-linked by sulfur, wherein a difference in a concentration of sulfur between adjacent members in the rubber composite described above is 1.5 part by mass or more based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component in the rubber composition described above; zinc oxide is blended in an amount satisfying a condition shown in the following equation (I) based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component in a low sulfur concentration rubber composition among the adjacent members, and an antioxidant and/or a naphthoic hydrazide compound are blended in an amount satisfying a condition shown in the following equation (II) based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component in the low sulfur concentration rubber composition: | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090272475 | TIRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS COMPRISING CROSSLINKED ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITION - A tire for vehicle wheels, includes at least one structural element obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable elastomeric composition including at least one vulcanized rubber in a subdivided form surface treated with at least one oxidizing agent; at least one diene elastomeric polymer, and at least one sulfur-based vulcanizing agent. A surface treatment process of vulcanized rubber and crosslinkable elastomeric composition is obtained with the vulcanized rubber in a subdivided form surface treated with at least one oxidizing agent. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090277551 | Pneumatic Tire Set - The kinds or types of noise dampers are significantly reduced, while securing high noise suppression performance and high uniformity of tire, to achieve improvement of production efficiency, management efficiency, transportation, storage efficiency and the like and reduction of total cost. On a tire inner surface “is” facing a tire cavity “i” surrounded by a rim | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090308517 | LAMINATED BODY AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME AS WELL AS INNERLINER FOR PNEUMATIC TIRE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The invention provides a laminated body ( | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100032068 | METHOD FOR MUTUALLY ADHERING MOULDED ARTICLES OF VULCANIZED RUBBER AND OF POLYMER - The invention relates to a method for mutually adhering a first moulded article of an at least partially vulcanized rubber polymer and a second moulded article of a polymer. The method comprises at least the steps of providing a first moulded article of a rubber polymer which comprises a compound containing carboxylic acid anhydride; providing a second moulded article of a polymer; providing an adhesive composition comprising at least a polyisocyanate, a polyol and a catalyst; arranging an adhesive layer of the adhesive composition on the surface for adhesion of at least one moulded article; bringing the surfaces for adhesion together under pressure; and polymerizing at least the adhesive layer at a suitable temperature. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100038005 | TIRE-RIM ASSEMBLY AND SPONGE MEMBER USED IN THE SAME - This invention relates to a tire-rim assembly which is easily produced at low cost, excellent in durability and capable of notably reducing road noise, and more particularly to a tire-rim assembly comprising a pneumatic tire ( | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100051156 | FILM TO KEEP TIRE SURFACE CLEAN AND SIMULTANEOUSLY PRIME FOR BETTER ADHESION OF BALANCE PAD - A method of preparing a tire inner surface includes providing an uncured tire having an inner surface, placing a strip of multi-axially stretchable blend film on a circumferential surface of the inner surface, wherein one end of the overlapped splice joined by a pressure-sensitive adhesive for easy removal of the strip from the inner surface, applying a release agent coating to the annular, circumferential film strip and the inner surface of the uncured tire, shaping and curing the uncured tire with the release coating on the annular circumferential film strip and inner surface in a suitable mold at an elevated temperature, removing the cured tire from the mold and allowing the cured tire to cool, and removing the annular circumferential film strip with its release coating by use of a film strip to provide a circumferential release coating-free tire inner surface of the cured tire for adhering balance pads, puncture sealants, and noise reduction foams. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100084064 | PUNCTURE FREE TIRE TUBE, PUNCTURE FREE TIRE, AND METHOD FOR FITTING TIRE TUBE TO TIRE - A puncture free tire tube to be fitted under compressive deformation into a tube housing space of an annular tire outer wall, which is detachably fitted to an annular rim, the puncture free tire tube contains a long member extrusion-molded with an elastomer as a raw material, and has a cross sectional area of from 1 to 1.3 times a cross sectional area of the tube housing space of the tire outer wall and a length corresponding to a circumferential length at a center of the cross section of the tire outer wall. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100084065 | RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention has its object to provide a rubber composition having excellent low-exothermic property and high strength together, and a pneumatic tire produced using the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition which contains a rubber component and 10 to 150 parts by mass of silica per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. The rubber component contains a butadiene rubber modified by a compound represented by the formula (1): | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100084066 | PERFLUOROCARBON GAS INSUFFLATION - Vehicle tires are filled with perfluorocarbon gas to extend tire life. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100108218 | EXTENSIBLE NON-LOAD BEARING CUT RESISTANT TIRE SIDE-WALL COMPONENT COTAINING ELASTOMERIC FILAMENT, TIRE CONTAINING SAID COMPONENT, AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME - This invention relates to a cut resistant tire side-wall component and processes for making such components, and a tire containing such component, the side-wall component comprising a textile fabric wherein a single layer of said fabric provides multi-directional cut resistance in the plane of the fabric, | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100126646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING TIRE INNER LINER MEMBERS, AND TIRE HAVING INNER LINER - A process for producing easily in high efficiency an inner liner having strip pieces obtained by cutting a ribbonlike rubber strip at given length arranged in parallel relationship in the across-the-width direction, aligned in the direction of tire circumference and bonded together. The process comprises spirally winding ribbonlike rubber strip ( | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100147430 | Omni-Directional Contiguous Moving Surface - An apparatus that is capable of omni-directional movement has been developed. The device includes a belt layer made of a plurality of interlocking flexible rings and a surface layer made of a laterally inelastic and longitudinally flexible material that surrounds the exterior of the belt layer. The device has a bladder located in the interior of the belt layer that provides structural support for the belt layer and surface layer and a hub that is in contact with the surface layer and is connected to an axle. Longitudinal motion occurs as the bladder, the belt layer, the surface layer, and the hub rotate together. Lateral motion occurs as the belt layer and the surface layer rotate around the bladder. Longitudinal motion is induced by a plurality of electromagnetic curvilinear motor drive rings that are located around the hub and are in contact with the surface layer. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100175802 | LOW - PERMEABILITY LAMINATE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING THE SAME - A low permeability laminate obtained by laminating (A) a thermoplastic resin composition layer containing (i) 50 to 90% by weight of an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene content of 20 to 50 mol % and a saponification degree of 90% or more, (ii) 50 to 10% by weight of an aliphatic polyamide resin having 90 mol % or more of an ε-caprolactam-derived component and 3 to 50 parts by weight of a sulfonamide-based plasticizer, based upon 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the components (i) and (ii) and (B) at least one rubber composition layer, a layer of a thickness ε | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100186865 | VARIABLE FOOTPRINT FOR A PNEUMATIC TIRE - An assembly adjusts functional characteristics of the assembly. The assembly includes a wheel for a vehicle, a pneumatic tire mounted on the wheel, a first electromagnetic structure attached to the pneumatic tire, and a second electromagnetic structure attached to the wheel. The assembly has a first condition characterized by the first and second electromagnetic structures being not energized and a second condition characterized by the first and second electromagnetic structures being energized. The first condition is characterized by a first footprint of the pneumatic tire with a shape different than a shape of a second footprint of the pneumatic tire in the second condition. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100193098 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire using, as an inner liner layer, a thermoplastic elastomer comprising a thermoplastic resin matrix, in which a rubber component is dispersed a surface of the inner liner layer is covered with a protective layer, whereby a weathering resistance, damage resistance and fatigue resistance of the film liner of the inner liner layer at the time of tire storage are improved. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100218871 | RUBBER COMPOSITION AND TIRE USING THE SAME - There are provided a rubber composition simultaneously improving low loss factor and wear resistance as compared with the conventional ones as well as a tire using such a rubber composition. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100230024 | TYRE EQUIPPED FOR ATTACHING AN OBJECT TO THE WALL THEREOF AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A tyre is described that includes a casing defining a cavity and equipped to receive an object, such as an electronic circuit, for example, through use of a two-part attachment, such as a touch-close attachment, of which a first part is fixed to a wall of the casing and a second part can be joined to the first part when placed in contact with the first part to keep the object on the casing in a service position. The first part of the attachment includes connection elements that are an integral part of the wall of the casing of the tyre. The connection elements allow these two parts to have freedom to move relative to each other, thereby limiting the transmission of stresses, which affect the wall of the tyre, to the object. The connection elements may be loops of flexible thread formed by the extremities of turns of a coiled thread integrated into the wall of the tyre during the tyre's manufacture. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100236682 | DEVICES INCLUDING A MECHANOCHROMATIC MATERIAL FOR INDICATING PRESSURE - The present invention relates to devices that include a mechanochromatic material ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100258230 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLES WHEELS - A method of manufacturing a tyre for vehicle wheels, includes the following steps: a) building a carcass structure; b) building a belt structure; c) building a tread band; wherein at least one of the carcass structure, belt structure and tread band includes a tubular structure of elastomeric material; and d) shaping the carcass structure into a toroidal conformation to associate it with at least said belt structure by exerting a radial deformation force directed from the inside to the outside of the carcass structure. The method includes the following step, during execution of at least one of steps a), b) and c): e) building the tubular structure in such a manner that the profile thereof, along its circumferential extension, has such a starting thickness that the deformed tubular structure following step d) has a substantially uniform thickness. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100276048 | TYRE EQUIPPED FOR ATTACHING AN OBJECT TO THE WALL THEREOF AND FASTENER THEREFOR - A tyre is described that includes a casing designed to be inflated to a service pressure and equipped to accept a functional object, such as an electronic circuit, for example, by means of a two-part fastener | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100276049 | PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH NOISE REDUCER - Provided is a pneumatic tire with noise reducer, which can reduce the cost for manufacturing a noise reducer and which can keep the effect to suppress cavity resonance. The pneumatic tire with noise reducer 1 comprises a pneumatic tire 3 and a noise reducer 7 attached to a tire cavity surface 6 of the tire. The noise reducer 7 is formed into a ring shape by butting both end faces 12 | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100307654 | DEVICE INSIDE A TIRE FOR REDUCING ROLLING NOISE - Tire including a crown, sidewalls extending the crown on each side, these sidewalls being connected to beads intended to be in contact with a mounting rim on which the tire is mounted, this tire having an internal wall delimiting, with the mounting rim, an internal cavity to allow the tire to be inflated. This tire includes, over at least part of its internal wall delimiting the internal cavity, a plurality of protrusions of elongate shape forming a dense coating, this tire being characterized in that these protrusions of elongate shape include a plurality of supporting fibers and a plurality of branching fibers, the branching fibers being attached to the supporting fibers, each supporting fiber having two ends, of which at least one is attached to the internal wall of the tire. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110056603 | PNEUMATIC RADIAL TIRE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RETREADED TIRE - A pneumatic radial tire includes: at least one carcass layer suspended across left and right bead parts; a belt layer arranged on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer; and a tread arranged on an outer circumferential side of the belt layer. The tread has a laminated structure in which a thermoplastic film layer of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composition is interposed between a tread-side rubber layer and a belt layer-side rubber layer. The thermoplastic elastomer composition is obtained by blending an elastomer in a thermoplastic resin. A process for producing a retreaded tire includes the steps of: forming a base tire from the pneumatic radial tire by softening the thermoplastic film layer through heating so as to separate and remove the tread-side rubber layer, the pneumatic radial tire having the tread worn away; and subsequently bonding a new tread-side rubber layer onto the base tire. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110061781 | TIRE NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A tire noise reduction device including a noise absorbing member made from a porous material that is formed into a band, the band being disposed along a tire circumferential direction on an inner surface of a tread portion of a pneumatic tire, wherein the noise absorbing member is wound so as to be laminated with two layers or more on at least a part of the tire circumferential direction to form a circular body, a crossing section where an inside layer and an outside layer of the noise absorbing member interchange is provided in at least one location on a periphery of the circular body, and the ends of the longitudinal direction of the noise absorbing member are disposed inward of the outermost layer of the noise absorbing member. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110120612 | BLADDER FOR VULCANIZATION OF TIRES, METHOD FOR VULCANIZATION OF TIRES, AND A PNEUMATIC TIRE - The bladder for vulcanizing tires having a plurality of first air-release grooves provided on the outer surface of a bladder body and each formed so as to extend from one to the other of the tire circumferential direction and extend toward one side of the tire-width direction, and a plurality of second air-release grooves provided on the outer surface of a bladder body and each formed so as to extend from one to the other of the tire circumferential direction and extend toward the other side of the tire-width direction. By this, the outer surface of the bladder body is divided into a plurality of areas by each of the air-release grooves. Also, the vertexes of each of the areas are angular toward the tire-circumferential direction. Therefore, the pressure contact between each of the areas and the inner surface of the tire is easily released starting at the said vertexes of each of the areas as release starting points. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110209807 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CURING A RUBBER LIKE ARTICLE - Particular embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatus for molding and/or curing an article. Particular embodiments of such methods include positioning a mold core centrally within mold outer portion to form an annular mold cavity between the mold outer portion and the mold core, the core including an outer ring having an outer surface for engaging the annular article, the outer ring being formed of a material capable of expanding and contracting with changes in temperature. Such methods also include beating the mold outer ring, cooling the core outer ring subsequent to the step of heating, whereby the core outer ring contracts relative to the article and removing the article from the core outer ring. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110240195 | Tire of a Vehicle With a Sensor Element - A tire of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, includes a tread for rolling on a driving surface and a plate-shaped sensor element that is mounted on the tread. The plate-shaped sensor element is mounted so as to be oriented essentially perpendicular to the adjacent tread area. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110259496 | TYRE COMPRISING AN ELECTRONIC UNIT - A tyre having an internal surface includes an electronic device and an anchoring body mounted on the internal surface for engagement between the electronic device and the internal surface of the tyre, wherein the anchoring body includes a crosslinked elastomeric material obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable elastomeric composition including a synthetic diene rubber, preferably in an amount of from 20 to 80 phr, and a halogenated butyl rubber, preferably in an amount of from 80 to 20 phr. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110259497 | POWER COMPONENT AND INSTRUMENTED TYRE - A member for attachment to tyre includes a functional object in suspension in a soft substance of very high deformability. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110259498 | PNEUMATIC TIRE, THE CROWN REGION OF WHICH IS PROVIDED WITH A SUBLAYER THAT REDUCES ROLLING NOISE - Radial tire for motor vehicle, comprising:
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| 20110265927 | Elastomeric Nanocomposites, Nanocomposite Compositions, and Methods of Manufacture - A nanocomposite comprising at least one elastomer and at least one nanofiller. The elastomer comprises units derived from isoolefins having from 4 to 7 carbon atoms and at least one multiolefin. The nanofiller comprise a layered filler and an amine modifier wherein the nanofiller is substantially free of any unassociated amines. By eliminating unassociated amines in the nanofiller, prior to contact with the elastomer, the nanocomposite has improved processability characteristics while maintaining desired impermeability characteristics. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110272075 | VEHICLE TYRE, MORE PARTICULARLY BICYCLE TYRE - The present invention relates to a vehicle tyre, more particularly to a bicycle tyre. According to the invention, said tyre ( | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110277899 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire for improving uneven wear resistance of a tread is provided. A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass serving as a framework and toroidally extending between a pair of bead cores, a belt and a tread disposed on a radially outer side of the carcass, wherein the tread comprises a plurality of tread rubber layers, dynamic elasticity of the outer tread rubber layer located in a radially outermost side of the tire is higher than dynamic elasticity of the inner tread rubber layer located in a radially innermost side of the tire, and a thickness of the inner tread rubber layer in a tire equatorial plane is smaller than a thickness of the inner tread rubber layer in other regions. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110290395 | PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH SURFACE FASTENER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A pneumatic tire with a surface fastener having engagement elements that are prevented from being crushed during curing, and a method of producing such a pneumatic tire. Uncured rubber is filled between the engagement elements of the surface fastener to form a protective rubber layer in which the engagement elements are buried. Then, the surface fastener having the protective rubber layer is placed on an uncured tire so that the surface opposite the surface having the engagement elements is in intimate contact with the inner surface of the tire, and after that the uncured tire having the surface fastener is cured by a curing machine equipped with a bladder. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110290396 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided is a pneumatic tire which is improved in a rolling resistance and a ride comfort in normal running without damaging a run flat durability. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110297285 | TIRE RUBBER COMPRISING MODIFIED TALL OIL PITCH - A tire rubber composition comprising a rubber compound and a processing oil, wherein the processing oil comprises a modified tall oil pitch, methods of making tires from such compositions, and tires comprising such compositions. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110308683 | RIM MOUNTED TIRE AND MEASUREMENT DEVICE ASSEMBLY - A tire, rim, and rim-mounted measurement device assembly includes a rim having a measurement device circumferential mounting surface; a tire mounted over the rim and having an inner liner region located radially inward from a crown region of the tire; one or more pairs of measurement devices mounted to the rim circumferential surface. Each measurement device has an operatively extending and retracting component attached to a respective attachment position on the inner liner region, and each of the measurement devices cooperatively measuring a designated type of deformation of the tire crown region within a rolling tire footprint. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110315291 | Pneumatic Object Provided with a Gas-Tight Layer Comprising a Thermoplastic Elastomer and Expanded Thermoplastic Microspheres - An inflatable article provided with an elastomer layer impermeable to the inflation gas, such as air, said layer comprising at least, as major elastomer, a thermoplastic polystirene/polyisobutylene block copolymer, such as an SIBS (stirene/isobutylene/stirene) copolymer, and expanded thermoplastic microspheres with a preferential content between 1 and 30 phr. Preferably, this copolymer comprises between 5% and 50% stirene by weight, its number-average molecular weight is between 30 000 and 500 000 g/mol and its Tg is below −20° C. Optionally, the gastight elastomer layer also contains, as plasticizer, an extender oil, especially a polybutene oil, with a preferential content between 5 and 100 phr. This gastight layer not only has excellent impermeability properties, but also a density and a hysteresis that are both reduced compared with layers based on butyl rubber. The inflatable article can be a pneumatic tire for a motor vehicle. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315292 | SUPPORT AND INSERT FOR ATTACHING A MODULE TO A TYRE WALL - An attachment support, which is designed for attaching a module to a wall ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315293 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - A method for producing a pneumatic tire in which an air-in phenomenon between an inner liner and a carcass is avoided by preventing adhesion of the inner liner to a bladder includes the following steps. A green tire using, as an inner liner, a polymer laminate including a first layer having a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.6 mm made of a styrene-isobutylene-styrene triblock copolymer, and a second layer composed of at least one of a second A layer made of a styrene-isoprene-styrene triblock copolymer and a second B layer made of a styrene-isobutylene diblock copolymer, the second layer having a thickness of 0.01 mm to 0.3 mm, is prepared. The green tire is mounted in a mold for vulcanization with pressurization by the bladder to obtain a vulcanized tire. The vulcanized tire is cooled at 50 to 120° C. for 10 to 300 seconds. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120000588 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided is a pneumatic tire including a hook-and-loop fastener which has a plurality of engaging elements provided at one surface of a base, in which the base of the hook-and-loop fastener is adhered to an inner surface of the tire so that the engaging elements are located near an inner cavity of the tire, and in which a protrusion is provided at one surface of the base of the hook-and-loop fastener to prevent the engaging elements from being crushed. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120006459 | POLYMER SHEET FOR INNER LINER AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING THE SAME - Provided is a pneumatic tire which exhibits excellent performance in flex crack growth resistance, rolling resistance and static air pressure drop, and includes an SIBS layer containing a styrene-isobutylene-styrene triblock copolymer as a polymer sheet used for an inner liner. The SIBS layer has a thickness more than or equal to 0.05 mm and less than or equal to 0.6 mm. The SIBS layer contains more than or equal to 0.5% by mass and less than or equal to 40% by mass of a polymer obtained by polymerization of a monomer unit having 4 carbon atoms. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120024446 | PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR A MOTORCYCLE - The present invention provides a pneumatic tire for a motorcycle which secures a sufficiently large lateral force in the intermediate region contacting the ground particularly when a middle camber angle is applied to the tire and increases a driving force and a braking force. The tire comprises a tread portion | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120042999 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - It is found that the amount of wear of a tread rubber of a tire, which is abandoned as wear life of the tread rubber expires, is not uniform over the entire width, and there is a high correlation between distribution in the tread width direction of the remaining thickness of the tread rubber of the abandoned tire and distribution in the tread width direction of wear effective rubber volume. On the basis of this finding, it is possible to improve wear life of a pneumatic tire | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120060992 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention aims to provide a pneumatic tire and a method of manufacturing the pneumatic tire that do not cause air accumulation or film damage even without application of a mold release agent to an inner face of the pneumatic tire in vulcanizing and molding by use of a bladder. The pneumatic tire according to the present invention has an inner liner | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120060993 | SELF-INFLATING TIRE ASSEMBLY - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube mounted within a tire sidewall groove. The air tube is in contacting engagement with opposite angled groove surfaces surrounding the air tube. A segment of the air tube is flattened from an expanded diameter to a flat diameter by bending and compression of the groove in a rolling tire footprint to force air evacuated from the flattened segment along a tube air passageway. The sidewall groove extends into an annular, axially extending, sidewall surface such as an axially oriented surface of a tire chafer protrusion located in non-contacting relationship with the rim. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120067484 | Sacrificial Layer to Relieve Pinch Flashing in Molding Operations - A method to reduce or eliminate pinch flashing in mold operations by applying a thin coating of a hydrocarbon wax to the outside surface of an uncured rubber article or on the sidewall or shoulder of a green tire at a location(s) where segments of the mold close on each other and on the rubber article or tire during cure. The hydrocarbon wax has a melting point from about 60 degrees to about 80 degrees Celsius, and is compatible with the composition of the rubber. The hydrocarbon wax acts as a sacrificial layer and is scraped up by the mold parts instead of the rubber when the mold segments close. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120073717 | METHOD FOR MAKING PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH FOAM NOISE DAMPER - The present invention is directed to a method for making a pneumatic tire having a foam noise damper, the pneumatic tire comprising two spaced inextensible beads; a ground contacting tread portion; a pair of individual sidewalls extending radially inward from the axial outer edges of said tread portion to join the respective beads, the axial outer edges of the tread portion defining a tread width; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; the method comprising the steps of: | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120090754 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING A TIRE INFLATION PRESSURE BY MEANS OF A STRESS SENSOR - A method for measuring inflation pressure of a vehicle tire involves measuring a compressive stress. The tire includes a rubber mass, referred to as an interior rubber, delimited by an internal surface in contact with air inside the tire and an external surface in contact with a carcass ply of the tire. The compressive stress in the interior rubber of the tire, between the internal and external surfaces of the interior rubber, is measured and the inflation pressure is deduced from this compressive stress. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120118462 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire has a tread rubber provided in a tread portion. The tread rubber comprises a cap rubber which constructs a contact surface, a base rubber arranged in an inner peripheral side of the cap rubber, and a cushion rubber formed by a rubber having a smaller storage elastic modulus E′ than the cap rubber and the base rubber. The cap rubber has a penetration portion which reaches a bottom surface of the tread rubber from the contact surface in a center region. The base rubber is terminated by the penetration portion. The cushion rubber extends from a side surface of the tread rubber toward the center region along the base rubber, and bends to an outer peripheral side from a portion near a terminating portion of the base rubber so as to reach the contact surface. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120125505 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING UNCURED RUBBER AND TIRE INCLUDING RECLAIMED RUBBER - A method for recovering uncured rubber from unused electron beam pre-cured rubber stock used in the manufacture of pneumatic tires. A first layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having cured rubber is skived with a band knife cutter blade from a second layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having uncured rubber. The band knife cutter blade is lubricated so as to avoid adhesion of the uncured rubber to a leading cutting edge of the cutter blade. After the first layer of cured rubber is removed from the pre-cured rubber stock, the uncured rubber in the second layer is reworked into at least one tire component. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120138203 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a rubber tread of a cap/base construction comprising an outer rubber tread cap layer containing an outer running surface and an underlying rubber tread base layer; wherein said tread cap layer comprises at least two circumferential, longitudinal rubber tread cap zones; wherein said tread cap zones individually extend from said tread cap running surface radially inward to said tread base layer; wherein said at least two tread cap zones comprises a first tread cap zone and a second tread cap zone adjacent to the first tread cap zone; the first tread cap zone and the second tread cap zone each independently comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120145296 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND TIRE - To reduce the manufacturing cost of a tire that uses a thermoplastic material for a tire frame member. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120175032 | PNEUMATIC TIRE SET - On a tire inner surface “is” facing a tire cavity “i” surrounded by a rim | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120180921 | Pressure-Sensitive Composite Reinforcement - Composite reinforcement (R- | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120180922 | INNER TUBE OF TIRE AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING SUCH INNER TUBE OF TIRE - An inner tube of tire includes a stick-shaped hollow tube body. For installing the inner tube of tire, the tube body is wound into a ring-shaped body having an adjustable size by crossing two lateral ends through each other, so that the tube body is applied to at least two wheel rims of different diameters. Since the user or the manufacture does not need to prepare many kinds of inner tube of tires with different lengths and the inner tube of tire could be easily replaced without the need of disassembling the wheel axle component, the process of replacing or repairing the inner tube of tire is time-saving. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120216933 | TIRE DESIGN FOR EASE OF INNER LINER REMOVAL AND METHOD THERE FOR - A method of repairing a tire includes providing a tire for repair having an exterior with a tread, a mounting bead, and a sidewall therebetween, an interior including an inner layer having a desired inner layer thickness, and an elastomeric underlying tire layer beneath the inner layer, the inner layer comprising a plurality of ridges extending outwardly a desired height from the inner layer surface generally defining a plurality of inner layer segments, a portion of the underlying tire layer extending outwardly along the ridges, and may extend at least to the depth of the inner layer surface. Then, preparing a patch area by removing at least a portion of a plurality of the ridges around the perimeter of at least one inner layer segment exposing the raised portion of the underlying tire layer beneath the removed ridges, the exposed underlying tire layer forming a discontinuity in the inner layer around the formed perimeter, peeling the inner layer away from the underlying tire layer within the perimeter, and installing a tire patch onto the patch area. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120216934 | RADIAL TIRE FOR USE IN TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120222789 | PUNCTURE RESISTANT TIRE - A tire and methods of manufacture thereof comprising a tire body and a metal reinforcing strip comprising at least one metal alloy foil layer to provide puncture resistance, wherein the at least one metal alloy foil layer comprises a spinodal glass matrix microconstituent structure. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120234448 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire has a nonconductive tread rubber constructing an outer surface of a tread portion, a nonconductive side wall rubber constructing an outer surface of a side wall portion, and a rim strip rubber constructing an outer surface of a bead portion. The pneumatic tire has a conductive sheet formed by a conductive rubber. The conductive sheet reaches the rim strip rubber from the tread rubber while passing between a carcass and the side wall rubber, and terminates without being exposed to the outer surface of the bead portion. The rim strip rubber is partitioned into a nonconductive rubber portion and a conductive rubber portion, and the conductive rubber portion is connected to the conductive sheet and is exposed to a bead bottom surface. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120241065 | PROCESS FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS AND TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A process for building tyres for vehicle wheels, includes forming a plurality of strip-like elements in such a manner that the opposite end edges of each strip-like element are cut according to at least one cutting angle; and forming at least one first reinforcing layer and one second reinforcing layer which radially overlap each other on a laying surface radially external to a forming drum. Each reinforcing layer includes a succession of strip-like elements disposed circumferentially in a mutually approached relationship, wherein the opposite end edges of each strip-like element form, in succession with each other, axially opposite respective edges of the first reinforcing layer and second reinforcing layer, wherein at least one of the axially opposite edges of at least one of the first reinforcing layer and the second reinforcing layer is at least partly indented. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120247637 | TYRE, THE INNER WALL OF WHICH IS PROVIDED WITH A HEAT-EXPANDABLE RUBBER LAYER - A heat-expandable rubber layer is provided to an inner all of a pneumatic tyre when the tyre is in an uncured state. The rubber layer is expanded when the tyre is in a vulcanized state. Once expanded, the rubber layer is capable of reducing rolling noises of the tyre. The rubber layer includes an elastomer composition based on at least an elastomer, e.g., natural rubber or butyl rubber; a reinforcing filler, e.g., silica and/or carbon black; between 10 and 80 phr of a blowing agent, e.g., an azodicarbonamide compound; and between 10 and 50 phr of a hot-melt compound with a melting point between 70° C. and 150° C., e.g., urea. The combination of the blowing agent and the hot-melt compound, at recommended high contents, makes it possible to very greatly reduce an expansion ratio and therefore a thickness of the rubber layer once the pneumatic tyre is vulcanized, without affecting noise absorption properties provided by the blowing agent. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120255661 | PROCESSES FOR PREPARATION OF CYCLIC AND ACYCLIC DIENE COPOLYMER AND RUBBER COMPOSITION - A process for preparing a copolymer of an acyclic conjugated diene and a cyclic conjugated diene using a polymerization catalyst system comprising a transition metal compound or a lanthanide metal compound, an alkylating agent, and an inorganic halide alcoholate, and rubber compositions and tires comprising the same. The copolymer contains at least 90% acyclic conjugated diene monomer, has a number average molecular weight of between 40,000 and 300,000, and has a cis-bond content of at least 92%. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120285596 | SELF-REINFLATING TIRE - A device for transport of air in the tire P or close to it consisting of a chamber K in the shape of a hollow compressible channel, placed along at least a part of the tire perimeter, characterized by the fact that a ring OK is placed at the inner side of the chamber K with the distance of its outer side from the tire axis of rotation equal to 1 to 1.1 multiple of the distance of the bottom side of the chamber K from the axis of rotation of the tire P. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120285597 | PNEUMATIC OBJECT PROVIDED WITH A GAS-TIGHT LAYER COMPRISING A STYRENE THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER AND A POLYPHENYLENE ETHER - Inflatable article provided with an elastomer layer which is airtight to the inflation gases, the said airtight elastomer layer comprising at least one styrene thermoplastic elastomer comprising a polyisobutylene block, characterized in that the said airtight elastomer layer additionally comprises a polyphenylene ether (“PPE”). | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120298272 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire that is provided with a first fastener of a separatable pair of mechanical fasteners on a tire inner surface, wherein, even in cases where a desired object is engaged/fixed using only one fastener, the object does not rotate having the fastener as a central axis when the tire is in use. A first fastener of the pair of mechanical fasteners is provided on a tire inner surface, and the mechanical fasteners are provided with a rotation preventing mechanism for preventing the fasteners from mutually rotating when the pair of mechanical fasteners are engaged. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120305156 | Tire with Improved Bead | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130008578 | Lighter Than Air Tire and Tube - A tire for a vehicle may include a cavity, and the cavity may be filled with a lighter than air gas. The gas may be hot air. The gas may be neon. The gas may be ammonia. The gas may be methane. The tire may include an interior surface having a reflective surface. The tire may include a tire tube having an exterior surface having a reflective surface. The tire may include a tire tube having an interior surface having a reflective surface. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130025757 | THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING SAME - Provided is a thermoplastic elastomer composition that can be suitably used for the inner liners of pneumatic tires and exhibits high air barrier properties and high fatigue durability. The present invention is a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a thermoplastic resin composition and a rubber composition dispersed in the thermoplastic resin composition, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition comprises a polyamide and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer or a poly(vinyl alcohol), the rubber composition comprises a halogenated isoolefin-p-alkylstyrene copolymer and is cross inked. The thermoplastic resin composition preferably comprises 1 to 25% by weight of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer or the poly(vinyl alcohol). The thermoplastic elastomer composition preferably comprises 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin composition and 80 to 200 parts by weight of the halogenated isoolefin-p-alkylstyrene copolymer. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130032262 | TIRE WITH FOAMED NOISE DAMPER - The present invention is directed to a method for making a pneumatic tire having a foam noise damper, the pneumatic tire comprising two spaced inextensible beads; a ground contacting tread portion; a pair of individual sidewalls extending radially inward from the axial outer edges of said tread portion to join the respective beads, the axial outer edges of the tread portion defining a tread width; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; an innerliner disposed radially inward of the carcass, the innerliner having a innerliner surface facing an interior cavity of the tire; the method comprising the steps of:
| 02-07-2013 |
| 20130032263 | DIAPHRAGM PUMP FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A diaphragm pump for use in a self-inflating tire assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a tire mounted to a rim tire mounting surface. The tire has an internal cavity. The invention further includes a pump device mounted to the rim, and the pump device has a first end and a second end, the first end being mounted within the tire cavity and the second end located outside the rim and in fluid communication with the outside air. The first end of the pump device has a flexible member having an outer rim and an inner rim, wherein the outer rim is connected to a backing plate and an inner rim is connected to a piston, wherein the piston is slidably mounted within a chamber of the backing plate. The piston has an inner passageway for fluid communication with the tire cavity and the chamber, and the second end of the pump device has an internal bore in fluid communication with the outside air and the chamber. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130056121 | LOW-PERMEABILITY LAMINATE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE UTILIZING THE SAME - A low permeability laminate obtained by laminating (A) a thermoplastic resin composition layer containing (i) 50 to 90% by weight of an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene content of 20 to 50 mol % and a saponification degree of 90% or more, (ii) 50 to 10% by weight of an aliphatic polyamide resin having 90 mol % or more of an ε-caprolactam-derived component and (iii) 3 to 50 parts by weight of a sulfonamide-based plasticizer, based upon 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the components (i) and (ii) and (B) at least one rubber composition layer, a layer of a thickness ε | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130056122 | Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire using, as an inner liner layer, a thermoplastic elastomer comprising a thermoplastic resin matrix, in which a rubber component is dispersed a surface of the inner liner layer is covered with a protective layer, whereby a weathering resistance, damage resistance and fatigue resistance of the film liner of the inner liner layer at the time of tire storage are improved. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130068362 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall portion provided in the outer surface thereof with an embossed mark. The embossed mark has a top surface axially outwardly away from the outer surface, a side surface extending from the outer surface to the top surface, an outside edge at which the side surface intersects with the top surface to form an outside corner, and an inside edge at which the side surface intersects with the outer surface to form an inside corner. The outside edge has a circumferential segment extending parallel with the tire circumferential direction, and the inside edge has a nearly-circumferential segment positioned oppositely to the circumferential segment and extending at an angle of from 0.5 to 2.5 degrees so that a warped plane is formed between the circumferential segment and nearly-circumferential segment. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130068363 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TIRE VULCANIZATION MOLD - A pneumatic tire has an outer surface with an arithmetical mean roughness Ra in the range of 0.1 μm to 0.6 μm when a reference length Lr is 20 μm, wherein the outer surface has an irregularity diameter in the range of 40-230 μm and an irregularity depth in the range of 3-22 μm. A method of manufacturing a tire vulcanization mold includes propelling spherical abrasive grains onto the surface of the mold under the condition that a propelling pressure is in the range of 0.1-0.6 MPa, so as to process the surface of the mold. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130075002 | SPLIT INNER TUBE - Improvements in an inner tube are presented. The inner tube is split at a location opposite of the valve stem. Locating the split at a location that is opposite of the valve allows the inner tube to be more balanced to prevent an out of balance inner tube that can result in making the bicycle unstable and less safe. A stiffener or snake may be incorporated to allow the inner tube to be pushed or pulled around the rim thereby making it easier to install the inner tube when access to the entire periphery of the rim. The free ends of the inner tube can have a connection mechanism that retains the ends in a secure or semi-secure arrangement. The Ideal mechanism may further provide a method of attracting and retaining the ends together to ensure that the inner tube creates and essentially complete circle. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130081745 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND PUMPING TUBE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD - A tire has an elongate profiled sidewall groove extending into a first tire sidewall from an outward first sidewall surface. An elongate air tube is positioned within the elongate sidewall groove in contact with the groove sidewalls, the air tube having an external surface configuration corresponding with and seating within the internal sidewall configuration defining the sidewall groove. The air tube when subject to outward originating impinging force collapses from an expanded unstressed configuration into a collapsed configuration to allow the tube to insert through the groove entry opening and expand outwardly once within the sidewall groove to its unstressed configuration. The configuration of the groove sidewalls capture the air tube within the groove in its expanded unstressed configuration to prevent separation of the tube from the tire during use. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130092307 | CONNECTION UNIT FOR CARBON FIBER RIM - A carbon fiber rim assembly includes a carbon fiber rim having a bridge and two sidewalls extend respectively from two sides of the bridge. Each sidewall has a hook portion and an annular groove is defined between the bridge and the two sidewalls. A tire has a tread body and two lips extend respectively from two sides of the tread body. The lips are engaged with the hook portions. A reinforcement member is a plate and the hardness of the reinforcement member is higher than that of the tire. A connection unit includes a first connection member located at outsides of the sidewalls and a second connection member connected to the reinforcement member. The first and second connection members are connected to each other to position the reinforcement member between the sidewalls and the lips. The reinforcement member is easily installed and replaced. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130098522 | NOISE REDUCING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE NOISE REDUCING DEVICE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE HAVING THE NOISE REDUCING DEVICE - Provided are: a noise reduction device with an improved adhesion of a noise absorbing member formed of a porous material and with a reduced processing time; a method of manufacturing the noise reduction device; and a pneumatic tire including the noise reduction device. The noise reduction device of the present invention includes: a noise absorbing member formed of a porous material; a band member for attaching the noise absorbing member to the inner surface of a tire; and locking members formed of a thermoplastic resin. The band member is formed of a thermoplastic resin. The noise absorbing member is disposed between the band member and the locking members. The locking members are bonded to the band member through the noise absorbing member by thermal fusion. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130112328 | SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to an inlet device for exhaust from the passageway or to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. The inlet device is positioned within the annular passageway 180 degrees opposite the outlet device such that sequential flattening of the air tube by the tire footprint effects pumping of air along the air passageway with the tire rotating in either a forward or reverse direction of rotation. The invention further includes an outlet device for regulating the tire cavity pressure and flow into the cavity. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112329 | SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to an inlet device for exhaust from the passageway or to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. The inlet device is positioned within the annular passageway 180 degrees opposite the outlet device such that sequential flattening of the air tube by the tire footprint effects pumping of air along the air passageway with the tire rotating in either a forward or reverse direction of rotation. The invention further includes an outlet device for regulating the tire cavity pressure and flow into the cavity. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130126063 | TIRE WITH LABEL - A pneumatic tire is disclosed having a label affixed to a plurality of whiskers extending from the outer sidewall of the tire. The whiskers may be T shaped. The label may be colored. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130126064 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - Disclosed is a method of producing a pneumatic tire in which a green tire having a layer of film having a thermoplastic resin as a main component, and an uncured rubber layer provided thereon is cured. When the uncured rubber layer is formed on the film layer, at least one uncured rubber strip is applied serially onto the film layer to form the uncured rubber layer. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130133800 | SYSTEM FOR ATTACHING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE OR OTHER ITEM TO A PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire includes an innerliner forming an internal cavity and an enveloping member. The innerliner maintains pneumatic pressure within the internal cavity. The enveloping member defines a pocket for removably receiving and removably securing an item to the pneumatic tire. The enveloping member is cured simultaneously with the innerliner to secure the enveloping member to the innerliner for the operational life of the pneumatic tire. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130133801 | TIRE BEAD MOUNTING VERIFICATION SYSTEM - The invention includes a tire having a pair of annular sidewalls each extending to a terminal end including a bottom surface for mounting onto a wheel. The tire further includes indicia arranged along each sidewall adjacent a bottom of each sidewall terminal end. The indicia extends radially outward from an initial position to extend from a top side of a rim flange of a tire wheel for indicating concentric mounting of the tire on a wheel. In particular embodiments, the tire is mounted on a rim of a wheel having rim flanges, each of the rim flanges extending along one of the tire sidewalls such that the indicia is adjacently arranged the rim flange along each sidewall such that the indicia extends radially outward from a top of the rim flange. Methods include using the indicia to determine whether the tire is concentrically mounted on the wheel. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130133802 | AIR MAINTENANCE PUMPING ASSEMBLY AND TIRE - A tire assembly includes a tire, sidewalls, and a sidewall groove. The tire has a pneumatic cavity. The sidewall has at least one bending region operatively bending when radially within a rolling tire footprint of the tire. The sidewall groove is defined by groove sidewalls positioned within the bending region of the tire sidewall. The sidewall groove deforms segment by segment between a non-deformed state and a deformed, constricted state in response to the bending of the sidewall bending region when radially within the rolling tire footprint. An air passageway is defined by the sidewall groove and a cover strip. The air passageway resiliently deforms segment by segment between an expanded condition and an at least partially collapsed condition in response to respective segment by segment deformation of the sidewall groove when radially within the rolling tire footprint. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130146194 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION AND TIRE USING SAME - Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition for the inner liner of pneumatic tires, which has low air permeability and a small percent change in air permeability from fatigue. A thermoplastic resin composition obtained by dispersing a modified rubber having an acid anhydride group or an epoxy group into a polyamide resin and an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer, the thermoplastic resin composition being characterized in that the ratio of the polyamide resin to the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer is between 47/53 and 61/39. The percent change in air permeability of the thermoplastic resin composition in the present invention when subjected 1 million times to 20% elongation strain at room temperature is 1.30 times or more. Additionally, a pneumatic tire using a film comprising the thermoplastic resin composition in the present invention as an inner liner has a percent change in air leakage of 1.30 times or less at room temperature after going 70,000 km. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130160910 | SIDEWALL FOR TIRE - The invention relates to a tire sidewall, at least one portion of which has a rubber composition based on at least a diene elastomer, a crosslinking system and a reinforcing filler, wherein the content of reinforcing filler in the composition varies from 20 to 40 parts by weight per hundred parts of elastomer, phr, with a volume fraction of reinforcing filler in the composition ranging from 8.0% to 13.0%, and in that this reinforcing filler comprises predominantly a carbon black or a mixture of carbon blacks with a BET specific surface area ranging from 50 m | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130167999 | TIRE PROVIDED WITH INFORMATION ACQUISITION DEVICE - An information acquisition device is provided within a virtual plane including a coil axis of a coil-shaped antenna and having a perpendicular line orthogonal to an axis of rotation of a tire, such that the angle formed by the coil axis of the antenna relative to the tire rotational axis is within a range of 0° to 40°. The amount of attenuation of radio waves emitted from the antenna to the exterior of the tire is thereby reduced. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130174953 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire in which an inner liner including a film mainly made of thermoplastic resin is attached to an inside of the tire via a tie rubber sheet, on an inner side of a carcass layer, and which has a lap-splice portion where end portions of the film in a tire circumferential direction overlap each other in a tire widthwise direction with tie rubber therebetween. A section of the film on a tire cavity side in the lap-splice portion has a portion where the film is thin over part or entirety of the width in the tire widthwise direction before the lap-splice portion, or a film thickness in the lap-splice portion is smaller than a film thickness in a portion other than the lap-splice portion. Thus, the pneumatic tire has no crack developing around the lap-splice portion of an inner liner layer after running, and has excellent durability. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130186537 | TIRE SURFACE PRINTING METHOD AND TIRE PRINTING DEVICE - A tire printing device includes a printer head ( | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130206301 | TIRE, AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Provided is a tire having at least a circular tire frame formed of a thermoplastic resin material, the tire including a reinforcing cord member that forms a reinforcing cord layer on the outer circumference of the tire frame, and the thermoplastic resin material including at least a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130213544 | TIRE INNER TUBE - A tire inner tube primarily includes an inner tube body being a hose having two closed ends and a charging air inlet being positioned at an inner side of the inner tube body, wherein the closed ends of the inner tube body are configured to be removably combined and form the inner tube body into a closed loop that fits a tire rim of a bicycle, so that the tire inner tube is allowed to be mounted around or demounted from the tire rim without removing the tire rim from the bicycle. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130220503 | METHOD FOR REPAIRING RADIAL TIRE, REPAIRED RADIAL TIRE, AND PATCH RUBBER - Provided is a method for repairing a radial tire that enhances the durability of patch rubber attached to a damaged portion of a carcass ply from the inner side of the tire and that extends the service life of the repaired tire while reducing the repair time. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130220504 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - In a tire according to the present invention, the shape of the outermost reinforcing layer in the tire radial direction is optimized. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130228259 | SILOXANE-BASED COMPOSITION WHICH IS INTENDED FOR TIRE MOLDING/STRIPPING - The invention relates to compositions in the form of silicone oil emulsions which are intended to be applied to curing bladders as a mold-release agent during tire production. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130228260 | TIRE - An object of the present invention is to provide a tire allowing a marking formed on an outer surface of a side portion thereof to fully demonstrate good visibility for a long period by preventing the marking being cracked and a marking portion from coming off when the tire experiences elastic deformation of the side portion including a sidewall portion and a bead portion and resulting tensile and compressive deformations occurring at the outer surface of the side portion. Specifically, the present invention provides a tire, comprising at an outer surface of a side portion thereof a marking formed by printing plural dots on the outer surface of the side portion, wherein the dots have: the same contour configurations and/or optionally similar contour configurations, which are mutually independent; and color(s) different from the base color of the outer surface of the side portion. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130248070 | NOISE REDUCING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE NOISE REDUCING DEVICE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE HAVING THE NOISE REDUCING DEVICE - Provided are: a noise reduction device with an improved adhesion of objects formed of a porous material and with a reduced processing time; a method of manufacturing the noise reduction device; and a pneumatic tire including the noise reduction device. The noise reduction device of the present invention includes: objects formed of a porous material; a band member for attaching the objects to the inner surface of a tire at two positions spaced at substantially equal intervals in the tire circumferential direction; and locking members formed of a thermoplastic resin. The band member is formed of a thermoplastic resin. Each object is disposed at a predetermined position in the tire circumferential direction, between the band member and the corresponding locking members. The locking members are bonded to the band member through the objects by thermal fusion. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130248071 | PNEUMATIC TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire manufactured by a method comprising: covering the engagement element groups on first sides of a two-side fasteners with a protective rubber layer made of an uncured rubber; making a cylindrical first formed body on a making drum, with the two-side fasteners covered with the protective rubber layer being intermittently attached to an inner circumferential surface of the first forming body in a circumferential direction thereof with the engagement element groups on second sides of the two-side fasteners being interposed in between; bonding the first formed body to an inner circumference of an annular second formed body by compression through expanding the first formed body into a toroidal shape, and thereby making the green tire; and curing the green tire inside a mold of a curing machine while pressing the green tire from its inside by a bladder. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130269850 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire includes an inner liner layer formed from a laminate sheet obtained by laminating: a sheet made from a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic resin composition which is a blend of the thermoplastic resin and an elastomer; and a rubber bonded by curing to the thermoplastic resin or the thermoplastic resin composition. The pneumatic tire avoids occurrence of cracks near a splice portion of the inner liner layer after the pneumatic tire starts to be used for driving, and thereby achieves excellent durability. In the tire, an inner liner layer is formed by lap-splicing end portions of a laminate sheet which is obtained by the laminating A sheet with end portions each having a tip subjected to a tip sharpening process is used as the sheet made from the thermoplastic resin or the thermoplastic resin composition which is the blend of the thermoplastic resin and the elastomer. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130284336 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BASE TIRE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TIRE, AND BASE TIRE - A method for manufacturing a base tire with a uniform degree of cure (vulcanization) by preventing undercure or overcure in curing an uncured base tire, a method for manufacturing a tire using such a base tire, and a base tire thus manufactured are provided. In a method for manufacturing a cured base tire having a tread region where a tread rubber is attached, an uncured base tire is enclosed within a curing mold, the side regions of the base tire are heated by a first heating means, the tread region with a thicker tire thickness than the side regions is heated by a second heating means, and a cure-molding is performed such that the amount of heat given to the tread region by the second heating means is smaller than the amount of heat given to the side regions by the first heating means. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130299055 | PERISTALTIC TUBE AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD - An elongate air tube is positioned within a tire sidewall cavity in contacting internal engagement with the tire sidewall to form an assembly. The air tube includes an internal elongate air passageway and wing projections projecting in opposite directions at an axially inward body portion. The wing projections seat within cavity pockets to retain the air tube within the cavity. The air tube body operatively compresses responsive to impinging stress forces from the tire sidewall against the air tube body, whereby the air tube body reconfiguring from an expanded unstressed configuration into a compressed configuration to constrict the air passageway. The air tube body decompresses into the expanded configuration upon reduction of the impinging stress forces against the air tube body. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130319592 | TIRE - A tire which is formed of a resin material, is highly elastic, has a low loss factor, and has excellent heat resistance and fracture characteristics. A tire 10 has a circular tire case 17 that is formed of a resin material including a polystyrene-based resin and a resin having compatibility with polystyrene and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) higher than that of polystyrene. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130340908 | OUTER BEAD LOCK WHEEL - The outer bead lock wheel of the present disclosure provides for wheel and tire flexibility between off-road vehicle capability and on-road vehicle capability by securing the tire to the wheel regardless of the change in tire pressure. The outer bead lock wheel of the present disclosure includes a wheel base having a flange which is operatively configured to receive one of a decorative ring or a functional ring. The decorative ring may be mechanically affixed to the wheel base, and the functional ring may also be mechanically affixed to the wheel base. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140000778 | REVERSIBLE AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND PUMP ASSEMBLY | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140007999 | TIRE - The present invention is concerned with a tire including a tire casing having a rolling resistance coefficient according to the coastdown method of JIS D4234 of not exceeding 4.0, in which both low rolling resistance and durability of the tire can be made compatible with each other. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140014248 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A method for producing a pneumatic tire in which a noise damper in the form of at least one continuous ribbon for reducing cavity resonance in a tire cavity is provided on the internal surface of a tire on the inside in the radial direction of the tire corresponding to the tire tread, including, providing a vulcanized and shaped tire; mixing a composition for forming the noise damper with a foaming agent to produce a liquid composition; rotating the tire in an upright state by means of a tire holding and rotation device, and introducing the liquid composition onto the tire internal surface by a device for introducing the liquid composition; varying the relative positional relationship of the pneumatic tire and the introduction implement in the axial direction of the tire while introducing the liquid composition is introduced onto the tire internal surface, and forming the liquid composition into a gel; and foaming and drying the gelled liquid composition. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140020805 | BYPASS AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND PUMP ASSEMBLY - An air maintenance tire and pump assembly includes a pair of inline valves are positioned on respective opposite sides of an in-tire air passageway inlet junction and a pair of outlet valves positioned at a downstream side of a respective inline valve. A bypass valve is further provided extending between the downstream valve sides of the inline valves, the bypass valve operative to open and bypass the flow of inlet air through the outlet valves to the tire cavity in the event that a tire cavity pressure is greater than a preset pressure level and close when a tire cavity pressure is less than the preset pressure level. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140020806 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire provided with a noise damper in the tire cavity, which can maintain high-speed durability and productivity while also reducing cavity resonance, comprising a tread having a width TW in contact with the ground during travel, in which a noise damper made of a sound-absorbing material is attached to the tire internal surface in order to reduce cavity resonance, wherein the noise damper is at least one continuous ribbon made of a sound-absorbing material and having a width W and a thickness E, which is fixed over an attachment width Wc to the tire internal surface over a range of at least 30% of the inside of the tread in the radial direction, the start end and terminal end which are the two ends of the continuous ribbon are disposed in such a way as to be offset from each other in the axial direction, and the continuous ribbon forms, together with the tire internal surface, a continuous groove having a groove width D which is at least equal to 10% of the width W of the continuous ribbon. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140027030 | ADHESIVE BONDING FOR A PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire assembly includes a tire having a pneumatic cavity, first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region with the first sidewall having at least one bending region operatively bending when radially within a rolling tire footprint, a rigid structure for facilitating operation of the tire assembly with the rigid structure being bonded to the tire by a compound cement of high stiffness such that a stiffness gradient is created between the structure and the tire, and a sidewall groove defined by groove walls positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140027031 | FILTER FOR A PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire assembly includes a tire, a filter element disposed between a pneumatic cavity and atmosphere. The filter element has threads for securing to the pneumatic tire. First and second sidewalls extend respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region. The first sidewall has a bending region operatively bending when radially within a rolling tire footprint. A sidewall groove defines groove walls positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall. The sidewall groove deforms in response to bending of the bending region of the first sidewall while radially within the rolling tire footprint. An air passageway is defined by the sidewall groove and deforms when radially within the rolling tire footprint. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140027032 | BONDING TO A PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire assembly includes: a tire having a pneumatic cavity; a rigid structure for facilitating operation of the tire assembly, the rigid structure being bonded to the tire by a layered thermoplastic material such that a stiffness gradient is created between the structure and the tire; first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region, the first sidewall having at least one bending region operatively bending when radially within a rolling tire footprint; and a sidewall groove defined by groove walls positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall, the sidewall groove deforming segment by segment between a non-deformed state and a deformed, constricted state in response to bending of the bending region of the first sidewall while radially within the rolling tire footprint. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140027033 | ATTACHMENT FOR A PNEUMATIC TIRE - An air-maintenance tire system includes: a tire having a tire carcass comprising a tire cavity defined by a tire inner liner and first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region; compression actuator means mounted to the tire carcass and configured for operative actuation by tire deformation during a tire revolution; and a pump assembly affixed to the tire carcass and comprising a compressor body affixed to the compression actuator means and having an internal air chamber. The air chamber has an inlet opening for admitting air into the internal air chamber and an outlet opening for conducting air from the internal air chamber to the tire cavity. The compressor body further includes a flexible membrane member located within the internal air chamber and operatively deforming within the internal air chamber responsive to contacting engagement with the compression actuator means between an open position relative to the inlet opening permitting air flow from the inlet opening into the air chamber and a closed position relative to the inlet opening obstructing air flow from the inlet opening into the air chamber. The membrane member during operational deformation between the open and closed positions compresses a volume of air within the air chamber. The first air-maintenance tire system further includes a hook-and-loop system for securing the compression actuator means and the compressor body to the tire carcass. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140034204 | ASSEMBLY OF PNEUMATIC TIRE AND RIM - In an assembly of a pneumatic tire and a rim, in which a tire cavity is formed between the pneumatic tire and the rim by mounting the pneumatic tire on the rim, a noise suppressing body extending in a circumferential direction is disposed inside the tire cavity. The noise suppressing body includes a first sound absorbing material layer arranged apart from an inner surface of a tire tread part through a cavity and a second sound absorbing material layer disposed at the rim side of the first sound absorbing material layer and having lower air permeability than the first sound absorbing material layer. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140083587 | INNER TUBE - The invention relates to a tyre ( | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140090763 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided is a pneumatic tire including an inner liner disposed inwardly in the tire relative to a carcass ply bridged between a pair of bead portions. The inner liner is formed of a first layer disposed inwardly in the tire and a second layer disposed to be in contact with a rubber layer of the carcass ply. The first layer is a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing a thermoplastic elastomer containing at least one of a styrene-isobutylene-styrene block copolymer and an SIBS modified copolymer having a styrene block moiety modified with acid chloride or acid anhydride having an unsaturated bond. The thermoplastic elastomer composition also contains at least one of an ultraviolet absorber and an antioxidant. The second layer is a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing at least one of a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer and a styrene-isobutylene block copolymer. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140090764 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR SIDE WALL AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention provides a rubber composition for a sidewall, which improves fuel economy, handling stability, tensile strength at break, elongation at break, and processability in a balanced manner, and which can also suppress the occurrence of broken spews during demolding of a resulting tire; and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a sidewall, comprising a rubber component having: a combined amount of a 1,2-syndiotactic polybutadiene crystal-containing butadiene rubber and a butadiene rubber synthesized in the presence of a rare earth catalyst of 5 to 60% by mass; an amount of a terminally modified butadiene rubber of 7 to 60% by mass; and an amount of an isoprene-based rubber of 20 to 70% by mass, each based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, wherein the rubber composition has: a combined amount of a carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of 25 to 120 m | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140102610 | SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to an inlet device for exhaust from the passageway or to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140102611 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR TIRES, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The invention relates to a rubber composition for a tire, containing an isoprene-based rubber and a compound represented by formula (1) below, wherein an amount of the isoprene-based rubber is at least 70% by mass; and an amount of the compound represented by formula (1) is 0.5-6 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. The invention also relates to a rubber composition for a tire, containing an alkylphenol-sulfur chloride condensate and a compound represented by formula (1) below, wherein an amount of the alkylphenol-sulfur chloride condensate is 0.4-6 parts by mass, and an amount of the compound represented by formula (1) is 0.5-6 parts by mass, each per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component of the rubber composition: | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140110030 | SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating inner tube with a pumping mechanism is provided. The self-inflating inner tube employs a non-elastic band that constrains the tube from expanding completely within the tire-rim cavity thereby creating a low pressure zone. The pumping mechanism is placed in the low pressure zone and compresses as load is applied to the section of wheel thereby pushing air into the inner tube. As the wheel rotates the load is removed and the pumping mechanism returns to its original shape drawing in air for the next pumping cycle. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140124112 | SEMI-HOLLOW PNEUMATIC WITH IMPROVED PROFILE AND ROLLING MEMBER EQUIPPED WITH SAID PNEUMATIC - Pneumatic tire | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140144563 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - In a method for producing a pneumatic tire, a vulcanizing step of heating and vulcanizing, inside a mold, an unvulcanized green tire having a pair of bead regions, side wall regions extended, respectively, from the bead regions toward the outside of the tire in the radius direction of the tire, and a tread region extended and joined to an outside end of each of the side wall regions to form a tread satisfies the following: | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140144564 | TYRE EQUIPPED FOR ATTACHING AN OBJECT TO THE WALL THEREOF AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A tyre is described that includes a casing defining a cavity and equipped to receive an object, such as an electronic circuit, for example, through use of a two-part attachment, such as a touch-close attachment, of which a first part is fixed to a wall of the casing and a second part can be joined to the first part when placed in contact with the first part to keep the object on the casing in a service position. The first part of the attachment includes connection elements that are an integral part of the wall of the casing of the tyre. The connection elements allow these two parts to have freedom to move relative to each other, thereby limiting the transmission of stresses, which affect the wall of the tyre, to the object. The connection elements may be loops of flexible thread formed by the extremities of turns of a coiled thread integrated into the wall of the tyre during the tyre's manufacture. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140150945 | PUMP AND ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY FOR A SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A system includes a tire having a tire cavity, first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire beads to a common tire tread, and a compression actuator means mounted to the tire within the tire cavity for delivering air to the tire cavity. The compression actuator means includes a hollow containment body formed from a resilient deformable material and containing a quantity of a non-compressible medium. The hollow containment body reciprocally deforms or transforms between a deformed state and a non-deformed state responsive to deformation and recovery of the tire while rotating. The hollow containment body in the deformed state displaces a quantity of the non-compressible medium for generating a compression force from which a volume of air is delivered to the tire cavity. The hollow containment body is shaped to facilitate pivoting during rotation of the tire. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140150946 | LAMINATED BODY OF RUBBER LAYERS - A laminated body of rubber layers includes: a resin layer formed from a polyester resin or a polyamide resin; a rubber layer formed from a rubber composition containing a diene rubber; and an adhesive layer disposed between the resin layer and the rubber layer. The adhesive rubber composition contains a modified rubber composition (A) or a modified rubber composition (B) both having a number average molecular weight of 70,000 to 110,000. The modified rubber composition (A) is formed from a modified butyl rubber (1) formed by reacting, with a butyl rubber, a compound having in a molecule a nitroxide free radical that is stable at ambient temperature in the presence of oxygen, a radical initiator, and a co-crosslinking agent. The modified rubber composition (B) is formed by compounding the co-crosslinking agent with a modified butyl rubber (2) formed by reacting the compound and the radical initiator with the butyl rubber. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140158266 | Air maintenance pneumatic tire - The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire with an elongate substantially annular air passageway enclosed within a bending region of the tire and extending substantially in a circumferential direction, wherein upon rolling of the tire air is pressed through the air passageway and a valve assembly in air flow communication with the tire cavity, the annular air passageway and the exterior of the tire and having an air inlet for allowing air to enter the valve assembly from the exterior of the tire as well as an air outlet for allowing air to enter the tire cavity. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140158267 | AIR MAINTENANCE PUMPING ASSEMBLY AND TIRE - A tire assembly includes a tire having a pneumatic cavity, first and second sidewalls, a sidewall groove, an air passageway, and a pressure regulator mounted to an inner surface of the pneumatic tire cavity. The pressure regulator controls air pressure within the pneumatic tire cavity. The first and second sidewalls extend respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region. The first sidewall has at least one bending region operatively bending when circumferentially within a rolling tire footprint. The sidewall groove defining groove sidewalls positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall. The groove and air passageway deform segment by segment between a non-deformed state and a deformed, constricted state in response to the bending of the first sidewall bending region circumferentially within the rolling tire footprint. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140166174 | PERISTALTIC PUMP AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - The invention relates generally to air maintenance tires and, more specifically, to a pump mechanism for supplying air into such tires. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140166175 | RUBBER COMPOSITION - Provided are a rubber composition suitable for cushion rubbers of retreaded tires in which tread rubbers of tires such as truck and bus tires (TBR) and aircraft tires are replaced for reuse, and a rubber composition which is suitable for adhesion carried out by interposing the rubber composition between vulcanized rubber members and covulcanizing them in a tire prepared by adhering separately vulcanized rubber members and which is excellent in a productivity. The rubber composition is characterized by comprising 0.3 to 2.5 parts by mass of aldehydeamines, 0.1 to 1.5 part by mass of at least one compound selected from a group consisting of tetra(2-ethylhexyl)thiuram disulfide, 1,6-bis(N,N′-dibenzylthiocarbamoyldithio)-hexane and 1,6-bis{N,N′-di(2-ethylhexyl)thiocarbamoyldithio}-hexane, and 0.1 to 2.5 parts by mass of a thiazole type vulcanization accelerator based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140174619 | COMPACT VALVE SYSTEM FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air passageway in the tire that is operable to be sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air from an inlet device through the passageway to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. A valve device for a tire is also disclosed. The valve device includes an insert mounted in the tire, a valve body mounted within the valve insert; wherein the valve body has a first, second and third chamber, wherein a first and second check valve is positioned in the first and second chamber. A pressure membrane is received within the valve body, and positioned to open and close the third chamber. The pressure membrane is in fluid communication with the tire cavity and the third chamber of the valve body. A spring is received within the third chamber and is positioned to exert force upon the pressure membrane to bias the pressure membrane position relative to the channel in the open position. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140174620 | COMPACT VALVE SYSTEM FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air passageway in the tire that is operable to be sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air from a valve device through the passageway to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. The valve device has an internal pressure membrane that regulates the inlet flow of the air to the tube pump. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140174621 | PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH BUILT IN FASTENER SYSTEM - A pneumatic tire assembly includes a pneumatic tire having an inner cavity and an inner surface at least partially defining the inner cavity, a rigid structure for facilitating operation of the tire assembly, and a threaded receptacle for securing the rigid structure to the inner surface of the inner cavity. The threaded receptacle has been integrally bonded to the inner surface during curing of the pneumatic tire. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140174622 | COMPACT VALVE SYSTEM FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air passageway in the tire that is operable to be sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air from an inlet device through the passageway to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. A valve device for a tire is also disclosed. The valve device includes an insert mounted in the tire, a valve body mounted within the valve insert; wherein the valve body has a first, second and third chamber, wherein a first and second check valve is positioned in the first and second chamber. A pressure membrane is received within the valve body, and positioned to open and close the third chamber. The pressure membrane is in fluid communication with the tire cavity and the third chamber of the valve body. A spring is received within the third chamber and is positioned to exert force upon the pressure membrane to bias the pressure membrane position relative to the channel in the open position. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140202607 | WATER BASED RUBBER CEMENT AND TIRE WITH FABRICATED TREAD - The invention relates to a water based rubber cement and tire with fabricated tread where the tire tread is fabricated by joining ends of an uncured rubber strip containing a high content of hydrophobated precipitated silica content with a water based cement containing a diene-based elastomer and a component reactive with said diene based elastomer and with residual hydroxyl groups on said hydrophobated precipitated silica contained in said uncured rubber strip. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140202608 | RUBBER CEMENT AND TIRE WITH FABRICATED TIRE TREAD - The invention relates to a rubber cement, fabricated tire tread and resulting tire, where the tire tread is fabricated by joining ends of an uncured rubber strip together with a silica coupler-containing rubber cement between opposing ends of the uncured tread rubber strip where the rubber strip contains a high content of hydrophobated precipitated silica and where the cement contains a silica coupling agent. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140216621 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - The present invention is directed to an air maintenance tire and pump assembly comprising: a tire having two spaced inextensible beads; a ground contacting tread portion; a pair of individual sidewalls extending radially inward from the axial outer edges of said tread portion to join the respective beads; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; an innerliner disposed radially inward of the carcass, the innerliner having a innerliner surface facing an interior cavity of the tire; an elongate substantially annular air passageway enclosed within a bending region of the tire, the air passageway operatively closing and opening segment by segment as the bending region of the tire passes through a rolling tire footprint to pump air along the air passageway; an air inlet port assembly coupled to and in air flow communication with the air passageway at an inlet air passageway junction, the air inlet port assembly operable to channel inlet air from outside of the tire into the air passageway, the air inlet port assembly comprising a regulator assembly, the regulator assembly having a mounting surface; the mounting surface adhered to the innerliner surface with a silicone adhesive. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140230984 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF PNEUMATIC TIRE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - An object of the present invention is to provide a production method of a pneumatic tire in which a generation of a tread groove crack is prevented while maintaining productivity and tire performance, and a pneumatic tire produced by this production method. The production method of a pneumatic tire having a tread composed of a predetermined rubber composition for a tread comprises: step A of molding an unvulcanized rubber composition for a tread to obtain a tread shape unvulcanized rubber composition provided with a concave profile, a step B of laminating the tread shape unvulcanized rubber composition obtained in the step A with other unvulcanized rubber compositions for tire member to obtain an unvulcanized tire, and a step C of vulcanizing the unvulcanized tire obtained in the step B in a vulcanization mold. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140261943 | TIRE WITH OUTER GROOVE CONTAINING BONDED TUBE - The invention relates generally to a pneumatic rubber tire which contains an outer, annular, circular groove which contains a flexible tube bonded to the walls of the groove. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140360643 | DISTRIBUTED CAVITY AIR PUMPING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR A TIRE - A tire assembly and method includes one or more elongate air passageway formed within a tire component, such as a tire sidewall. The air passageway is configured as a series or string of elongate cavities, adjacent cavities connected end to end by an elongate connecting channel. The connecting channel is dimensioned having a channel diametric size smaller than a cavity diametric size. Positioned within the tire component, the air passageway sequentially collapses segment by segment as each of the cavities pass sequentially over a rolling tire footprint. Air is pumped by the sequential air passageway collapse with the smaller dimensioned connecting channel(s) acting as valve components to directionally keep the pumped air moving between an air passageway air inlet and an air passageway air outlet and from there into the tire cavity. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140373991 | SUPPORT AND INSERT FOR ATTACHING A MODULE TO A TYRE WALL - An attachment support, which is designed for attaching a module to a wall ( | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150034226 | TYRE OF WHICH THE CROWN AREA IS PROVIDED WITH A SUB-LAYER COMPRISING A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER - The present invention relates to a radial tyre ( | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150041035 | VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - An air maintenance tire and air pump assembly includes a sidewall and a tire cavity for maintaining pressure; an elongate tubular air passageway enclosed within a flexing region of the sidewall, air passageway, the air passageway operably closing segment by segment in reaction to induced forces from the tire flexing region as the flexing region of the tire wall rotates adjacent a rolling tire footprint, the elongate air passageway having at least one check valve device seated within the axial air passageway; and a relief valve assembly comprising a chamber body, a valve, a piston, and a silicone ring, the valve having a valve body and a valve head, the valve head, deforming to release over-pressurized air from the tire cavity to atmosphere. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150041036 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND VALVE ASSEMBLY - An air maintenance tire and pump assembly includes a tire having a tire cavity, first and second sidewalls extending from first and second tire bead regions, respectively, to a tire tread region, an elongate substantially annular air passageway enclosed within a bending region of the sidewalls, the air passageway operatively closing and opening, segment by segment, as the bending region of the sidewalls passes adjacent a rolling tire footprint to pump air along the air passageway, an air inlet port assembly coupled to, and in air flow communication with, the air passageway at an inlet air passageway junction, the air inlet port assembly being operable to channel inlet air from outside of the tire into the air passageway, the air inlet port assembly including an inlet control valve and an outlet tee structure positioned 180° opposite the inlet control valve in the air passageway for moving air into the tire cavity, the inlet control valve including two inlet check valves for ensuring air flow only into, and not out of, the inlet control valve, the air passageway, a corresponding plain tee inlet structure, and the tire cavity. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150059949 | COMPACT VALVE SYSTEM FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A tire having a tire cavity is disclosed, wherein the tire has a bi-directional pump assembly including a pump passageway having an inlet end and an outlet end, and being operative to allow a portion of the pump passageway near a tire footprint to substantially close and open the pump passageway. The tire includes a valve assembly having a valve housing, wherein a diaphragm is mounted in the valve housing forming an interior chamber, and wherein the diaphragm is responsive to the pressure of the tire cavity. The interior chamber has a first hole in fluid communication with the inlet end of the pump passageway, a second hole in fluid communication with the outlet end of the pump passageway, and a third hole in fluid communication with the outside air. The valve housing has a passageway in fluid communication with the tire cavity and the outlet end of the pump. The valve assembly further includes an inlet control valve having a valve bottom positioned over the third hole and operative to open and close the third hole to allow air to enter the system. The inlet control valve has a first end connected to the diaphragm, and a resilient member biases the inlet control valve into the open position. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150059950 | COMPACT VALVE SYSTEM FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A tire having a tire cavity is disclosed, wherein the tire has a bi-directional pump assembly including a pump passageway having an inlet end and an outlet end, and being operative to allow a portion of the pump passageway near a tire footprint to substantially close and open the pump passageway. The tire includes a valve assembly having a valve housing, wherein a diaphragm is mounted in the valve housing forming an interior chamber, and wherein the diaphragm is responsive to the pressure of the tire cavity. The interior chamber has an inlet in fluid communication with outside air, and an outlet in fluid communication with inlet and outlet of the pump passageway. The valve assembly further includes an inlet control valve having a valve bottom positioned over the outlet and operative to open and close the outlet. The inlet control valve has a first end connected to the diaphragm, and a resilient member biases the inlet control valve into the open position. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150059951 | COMPACT VALVE SYSTEM FOR SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A tire having a tire cavity is disclosed, wherein the tire has a bi-directional pump assembly including a pump passageway having an inlet end and an outlet end, and being operative to allow a portion of the pump passageway near a tire footprint to substantially close and open the pump passageway. The tire includes a valve assembly having a valve housing, wherein a diaphragm is mounted in the valve housing forming an interior chamber, and wherein the diaphragm is responsive to the pressure of the tire cavity. The interior chamber has an inlet in fluid communication with outside air, and an outlet in fluid communication with inlet and outlet of the pump passageway. The diaphragm is positioned over the outlet and operative to open and close the outlet. A resilient member biases the diaphragm into the open position. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150059952 | FILTER ASSEMBLY FOR AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - A tire assembly is disclosed, wherein the tire has a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls extending radially inward from the tread portion to join with a respective bead; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; and a pump passageway positioned within a bending region of the tire. The pump passageway is operative to open and close as the tire rotates. The tire assembly further includes a valve assembly in fluid communication with the pump passageway. The tire further includes a pocket formed in the tire, and a filter assembly is mounted in the pocket. The filter assembly is in air flow communication with the valve assembly, wherein the filter assembly is formed of a housing and a cover, wherein the cover has one or more holes for communicating air into the housing, wherein the cover is connected to the housing, the housing having an interior cavity having a filter media housed therein, the housing having a hole in fluid communication with the valve assembly, wherein a flexible collar surrounds the cover. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150059953 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLY OF AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE SYSTEM - A tire assembly is disclosed, wherein the tire has a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls extending radially inward from the tread portion to join with a respective bead; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; and a pump passageway positioned within a bending region of the tire. The pump passageway is operative to open and close as the tire rotates. The tire assembly further includes a valve assembly in fluid communication with the pump passageway. The tire further includes a pocket formed in the tire, and a filter assembly is mounted in the pocket. The filter assembly is in air flow communication with the valve assembly, wherein the filter assembly is formed of a housing and a cover, wherein the cover has one or more holes for communicating air into the housing, wherein the cover is connected to the housing, the housing having an interior cavity having a filter media housed therein, the housing having a hole in fluid communication with the valve assembly, wherein a flexible collar surrounds the cover. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150083297 | VULCANIZATION-BONDED BODY OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYESTER RESIN MEMBER AND RUBBER MEMBER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - In a vulcanization-bonded body of a rubber member and a resin member such as a resin film and a method for producing the vulcanization-bonded body, adhesiveness between the resin member and the rubber member is improved without adding another step. In a vulcanization-bonded body which is composed of a resin member that is formed of a thermoplastic polyester and a rubber member that is bonded to the resin member by vulcanization, the resin member contains a resorcin-based formaldehyde condensate and the rubber member contains a melamine-formaldehyde resin. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150083298 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire in which an inner liner including a film mainly made of thermoplastic resin is attached to an inside of the tire via a tie rubber sheet, on an inner side of a carcass layer, and which has a lap-splice portion where end portions of the film in a tire circumferential direction overlap each other in a tire widthwise direction with tie rubber therebetween. A section of the film on a tire cavity side in the lap-splice portion has a portion where the film is thin over part or entirety of the width in the tire widthwise direction before the lap-splice portion, or a film thickness in the lap-splice portion is smaller than a film thickness in a portion other than the lap-splice portion. Thus, the pneumatic tire has no crack developing around the lap-splice portion of an inner liner layer after running, and has excellent durability. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150090386 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND VALVE ASSEMBLY - An air maintenance tire and pump assembly includes a tire, an elongate substantially annular air passageway, an air inlet port assembly, a pair of substantially inline valves, a pair of outlet valves, and a high pressure shut-off valve. The tire has a tire cavity and first and second sidewalls extending from first and second tire bead regions, respectively, to a tire tread region. The elongate substantially annular air passageway is enclosed within a bending region of the sidewalls, the air passageway operatively closing and opening, segment by segment, as the bending region of the sidewalls passes adjacent a rolling tire footprint to pump air along the air passageway. The air inlet port assembly is coupled to, and in air flow communication with, the air passageway at an inlet air passageway junction, the air inlet port assembly being operable to channel inlet air from outside of the tire into the air passageway. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150101724 | Pneumatic Tire - The pneumatic tire of the present technology has an overlap splice portion joined by overlapping resin film sheet materials on each other, wherein at least one layer of two layers joined by overlapping the film sheet materials in the overlap splice portion has recessed portions of a depth that is smaller than a thickness of the film sheet material on a non-joining surface side thereof, and joining surface sides of the two layers are formed into flat surfaces and the flat surfaces are joined. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150101725 | Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire of the present technology includes a surface on a tire cavity side of a film positioned on a tire cavity side in the overlap splice portion is formed with a recess so that a film thickness at the overlap splice portion becomes thinner than a film thickness of portions other than the overlap splice portion. A surface on a tire outer circumferential side of the film is positioned on the tire cavity side in the overlap splice portion is formed flat between the overlap splice portion and the portions other than the overlap splice portion. A surface on a tire cavity side and a surface on a tire outer circumferential side of a film positioned on a tire outer circumferential side in the overlap splice portion are formed flat between the overlap splice portion and the portions other than the overlap splice portion. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150122388 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND VALVE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD - An air maintenance tire assembly includes a tire having an elongate valve stem projecting outward from the tire cavity and a tire sidewall having an elongate sidewall groove formed therein and housing an elongate air tube. A connecting tube extends between the air tube and the valve stem, the connecting tube having an internal connecting air passageway for directing air forced along the air tube air passageway into the internal valve stem passageway as the tire rolls over a ground surface. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150122389 | VALVE STEM-BASED PRESSURE REGULATOR SYSTEM FOR AN AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND METHOD - An air maintenance tire assembly and method of operation includes a pressurized air supply assembly for supplying pressurized air to a tire cavity through an elongate outward projecting, valve stem passageway. An elongate centrally disposed shaft within the valve stem reciprocally moves axially in the valve stem internal air passageway between a passageway-opening axial position and a passageway-closing axial position. A pressure regulator is provided to move the elongate shaft axially between the passageway-opening and passageway-closing positions responsive to a detected air pressure level within the tire cavity. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150122390 | VALVE STEM-BASED AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND METHOD - A valve stem-based air maintenance tire assembly and method of operation is provided employing a tire mounted air pumping system, The assembly includes a rim-mounted pressure regulator positioned within a tire cavity opposite an inward end of a tire valve stem to selectively open and close pressurized air flow from a valve stem internal passageway into the tire cavity. An elongate valve stem shaft is mounted within the valve stem air passageway and reciprocally moves axially to close off and open the valve stem air passageway to create or close a pressurized air path into the tire cavity as needed. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150122391 | PNEUMATIC TIRE COMPRISING A HYDRAULIC ENGINE - A pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall, an annular tire cavity, and a hydraulic actuator connected to the sidewall inside the annular tire cavity, wherein the hydraulic actuator has a flexible reservoir for containing a hydraulic fluid, and an opening allowing hydraulic fluid to enter the reservoir and to exit the reservoir. Further, the hydraulic actuator comprises a lever arm connected to the sidewall and holding the flexible reservoir between the lever arm and the sidewall, wherein the lever arm comprises a fluid channel allowing hydraulic fluid to flow from the reservoir through the opening out of the lever arm. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150290890 | Method for Manufacturing Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire is formed by winding a sheet member (A) and a sheet member (B) onto a molding drum and molding a cylindrical body. A laminate body (M) in which the sheet member (B) is layered in advance on the outer periphery of the sheet member (A) is wound onto a molding drum ( | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150306831 | Pneumatic Tire with Surface Fastener and Method of Manufacturing Same - A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire with surface fastener according to the present technology includes, while engaging a surface fastener provided with a plurality of first engaging elements and a sheet-shaped protective member provided with a plurality of second engaging elements that engage with the first engaging elements of the surface fastener, disposing the surface fastener in an unvulcanized tire so that a surface on a side opposite that of a surface on which the engaging elements are provided is closely fitted to an inner surface of the tire, and vulcanizing the unvulcanized tire provided with the surface fastener using a vulcanizer equipped with a vulcanization bladder. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150344679 | Appearance Enhancer For Rubber Compositions With Antidegradants - The addition of a polyester resin comprising a copolymer of maleic anhydride or maleic acid and a linear or branched polyol, to a rubber composition provides a black, glossy appearance on the outer, exposed surface. The rubber composition may be formed into a tire sidewall component of a tire. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150375575 | VEIN PUMP ASSEMBLY FOR AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - An air maintenance tire and air pump assembly is provided including a tire and an elongate tubular air passageway enclosed within a flexing region of a tire sidewall. A plurality of check valve devices are spaced apart and positioned along the air passageway into multiple air passageway segments. A check valve membrane opens to allow pressurized air to directionally pass through the check valve device from an upstream passageway segment to a downstream passageway segment and closes to prevent air from passing in an opposite direction through the check valve from the downstream segment to the upstream segment. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160001605 | STIFFNESS ENHANCED TREAD - A pneumatic tire includes a tread base comprised of a first material, a tread cap comprised of a second material, and a plurality of plugs comprised of a third material. The tread cap is disposed radially outward of the tread base and in operational contact with a ground surface. The plurality of plugs are disposed at least partially within the tread cap. The plurality of plugs yield a tread stiffness in one direction greater than stiffness in at least one other direction. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160031269 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire includes a plate-like member which is attached to a tread portion inner surface by at least two attaching portions arranged with a space in a tire circumferential direction, and has a space with respect to the tread portion inner surface between the two adjacent attaching portions, wherein a through hole penetrating toward the space is formed in the plate-like member. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160039258 | PASSAGE TUBE FOR AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - The present invention is directed to a tire assembly having: a tire having a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls extending radially inward from the tread portion to join with a respective bead; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; a pump passageway positioned within a bending region of the tire, the pump passageway being operative to open and close as the tire rotates; a valve assembly in fluid communication with the pump passageway; a pocket formed in the tire; a filter assembly mounted in the pocket, said filter assembly being in air flow communication with the valve assembly, wherein the pocket has an area larger than the area of the filter housing wherein the valve assembly has an inlet, wherein the filter assembly has an outlet, wherein a tube connects the filter outlet assembly to the inlet of the valve assembly; wherein the tube is made of a rubber composition having a shore D hardness greater than 40 as measured by ASTM-D2240. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160039973 | TIRE - A tire which has a circular tire frame formed of a resin material, and the resin material includes a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer including a soft segment and a hard segment having a crystallinity of from 14% to 26% in a molecule thereof. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160046157 | VALVE STEM LOCATED CONTROL REGULATOR FOR AN AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - A rim mounted control assembly receives therethrough the tire valve stem from an air maintenance tire. A control assembly regulator controls a flow of air to and from a tire-mounted air pumping tube. The control assembly includes a bi-directional air distribution block having multiple parallel air pathways, each air pathway coupled to a respective conduit connected to an air pumping tube mounted within a tire sidewall. The pathways alternatively operate to deliver ambient non-pressurized air to the air pumping tube in response to directional tire rotation against a ground surface. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160046159 | CONTROL REGULATOR AND PUMPING SYSTEM FOR AN AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - A pressure control assembly for an air maintenance tire includes a control valve assembly. The pressure control assembly mounts in proximal relationship to a tire valve stem and operably controls a flow of pressurized air through the tire valve stem from an ancillary tire-mounted pressurized air source. The ancillary tire-mounted pressurized air source and an external pressurized air source share the valve stem for delivery of pressurized air to the tire cavity. The pressure control assembly mounts to a surface of a rim body supporting the tire at a control location in proximal relationship with the valve stem. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160046764 | TIRE - A tire includes a circular tire frame formed of a resin material, the resin material including a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer having a weight average molecular weight of from 15,700 to 75,000. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160059644 | TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SELF-INFLATING TIRE SYSTEM - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an adjustable valve having: a housing having first end and a second end, and a central bore which extends from the first end to the second end; a piston slidably mounted within the central bore at the first end of the housing, a cap mounted in the second end of the housing forming a chamber with the housing, wherein a spring is mounted within the chamber and having a first end for engagement with the piston and a second end for engagement with a bottom wall of the chamber, said cap further comprising a fluid chamber projecting from the bottom wall of the chamber, wherein the piston is movable to seal the fluid chamber, wherein the housing is made from a material having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than the material of the fluid chamber. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160059645 | TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SELF-INFLATING TIRE SYSTEM - A self-inflating tire assembly includes an adjustable valve having: a housing having first end and a second end, and a central bore which extends from the first end to the second end; a piston slidably mounted within the central bore at the first end of the housing, a cap mounted in the second end of the housing forming a chamber with the housing, wherein a spring is mounted within the chamber and having a first end for engagement with the piston and a second end for engagement with a bottom wall of the chamber, said cap further comprising a fluid chamber projecting from the bottom wall of the chamber, wherein the piston is movable to seal the fluid chamber, wherein the housing is made from a material having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than the material of the fluid chamber. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160068030 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire, having short fibers fixedly attached to at least a portion of an inner surface thereof, wherein: provided that the average cross sectional area of a cross section, not in contact with the inner surface of the tire, of one short fiber is “A” (mm | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160137000 | TIRE - A tire includes: a ring shaped tire frame member that is made of a resin with plural tire pieces joined along a tire circumferential direction; a joint portion reinforcing belt that is adhered to the tire frame member, that extends around the tire circumferential direction, and that covers a joint portion of the plural tire pieces; and a tread layer that is provided further to the tire radial direction outside than the tire frame member and the joint portion reinforcing belt. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160137010 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire includes a plate-like member which is attached to a treadportion inner surface by at least two attaching portions arranged with a space in a tire circumferential direction, and has a space with respect to the tread portion inner surface between the two adjacent attaching portions, wherein a through hole penetrating toward the space is formed in the plate-like member, and wherein a support member capable of supporting the plate-like member is arranged in the space. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160159157 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprising a radially outer cap layer and radially inner cap layer underlying the outer cap layer; the outer cap layer comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), from about 50 to about 90 phr of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature (Tg) ranging from −65° C. to −55° C. and functionalized with an alkoxysilane group and at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of primary amines and thiols; from about 50 to about 10 phr of polybutadiene having a cis 1,4 content greater than 95 percent and a Tg ranging from −80 to −110° C.; from 30 to 80 phr of a combination of a resin having a Tg of at least 30° C. and an oil, wherein the weight ratio of resin to oil is greater than 1; and the inner cap layer comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising: from about 50 to about 90 phr of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber functionalized with an alkoxysilane group and at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of primary amines and thiols; from about 50 to about 10 phr of polybutadiene having a cis 1,4 content greater than 95 percent and a Tg ranging from −80 to −110° C.; and from 30 to 50 phr of an oil, and essentially free of a resin. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160167457 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE AND VALVE ASSEMBLY | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160176238 | AIRCRAFT TIRE WITH CONCAVE SIDEWALL | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160375734 | TYRE EQUIPPED FOR ATTACHING AN OBJECT TO THE WALL THEREOF AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A tyre is described that includes a casing defining a cavity and equipped to receive an object, such as an electronic circuit, for example, through use of a two-part attachment, such as a touch-close attachment, of which a first part is fixed to a wall of the casing and a second part can be joined to the first part when placed in contact with the first part to keep the object on the casing in a service position. The first part of the attachment includes connection elements that are an integral part of the wall of the casing of the tyre. The connection elements allow these two parts to have freedom to move relative to each other, thereby limiting the transmission of stresses, which affect the wall of the tyre, to the object. The connection elements may be loops of flexible thread formed by the extremities of turns of a coiled thread integrated into the wall of the tyre during the tyre's manufacture. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20190143764 | PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH NOISE DAMPER | 05-16-2019 |
