| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 156128100 | Applying tread material to fully-formed carcass | 16 |
| 20130139957 | TIRE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A tire manufacturing apparatus and a tire manufacturing method capable of efficiently manufacturing quality tire by uniformly expanding the diameter of an annular tread and mounting the tread on a base tire without axial deviation. The tire manufacturing apparatus for mounting an annular tread on the outer periphery of a base tire includes a drum for securing a base tire, a plurality of holding means each having a holding surface for holding the outer periphery of the annular tread, a moving means for moving the holding means along the central axis of the base tire, a sealing means for sealing the opening on one side of the annular tread, and an air supplying means for supplying air into a space surrounded by the annular tread and the sealing means. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130284349 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND PRECURED TREAD - A tire exhibiting a desired design performance can be manufactured at a low cost using a precured tread having a mounting surface formed flat. In the process of manufacture, a base tire formed with a tread mounting surface having curvatures in the axial and circumferential directions of the tire and a precured tread having amounting surface formed flat, which is to be applied to the tread mounting surface of the base tire, are used. The precured tread has grooves ( | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140130961 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING A TREAD RING UPON A TIRE CARCASS - Exemplary embodiments of the subject invention comprise methods and apparatus for mounting a tread ring onto a tire carcass. Such methods may include the step of providing a tire tread ring having opposing side edges; arranging the tread ring in an initial ring arrangement in communication with a pressure source, the pressure source being in communication with an outer side of the tread ring; expanding the tread ring radially outward from the initial ring arrangement to an expanded arrangement, the tread ring being expanded by applying vacuum pressure along the outer side of the tread ring supplied by the pressure source; inserting a tire carcass within a central opening of the tread ring while in the expanded arrangement; contracting the tread ring into an installed arrangement about an outer surface of the tire carcass; and, releasing the vacuum along the outer side of the tread ring. | 05-15-2014 |
| 156128600 | With specified treatment of tread material before application to carcass | 6 |
| 20110067800 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR PRODUCING AN ELASTOMERIC COMPOUND - A process for producing an elastomeric compound, includes: feeding at least one elastomeric polymer and at least one reinforcing filler to a mixing apparatus including at least one batch mixing device; mixing and dispersing, in the at least one mixing apparatus, the at least one reinforcing filler into the at least one elastomeric polymer, so as to obtain a first elastomeric compound; discharging the first elastomeric compound from the at least one mixing apparatus; feeding the first elastomeric compound to at least one continuous mixing device, said continuous mixing device including at least two rotating screws; mixing the first elastomeric compound in the at least one continuous mixing device, so as to obtain a second elastomeric compound; and discharging said second elastomeric compound from said at least one continuous mixing device. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110146888 | METHOD FOR FORMING STRATIFIED RUBBER ARTICLE WITH VARIABLE CURE RATE - A method of forming a tread comprising two or more layers of rubber is described. The method includes the steps of: extruding a rubber compound through an extruder and a gear pump and mixing with an accelerant and then applying a continuous strip of rubber directly onto a tire building machine to form a first layer of rubber having a first cure rate; adjusting the amount of accelerant to obtain a second cure rate different than said first cure rate, and then applying a strip of rubber having a second cure rate onto the tire building machine, wherein one of the cure rates is faster than the other cure rate. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20120090767 | TYRE PRODUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20130276957 | TIRE CASING AND METHOD OF PRODUCING TIRE - The present invention provides a method for producing a tire casing and a tire having improved low-heat-generation property and durability. The method for producing a tire casing comprises vulcanizing a casing portion comprising a belt portion composed of multiple belt layers, a side portion and a bead portion, and includes at least one compounding method selected from the following (a), (b) and (c): (a) in which carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 25 to 99 m | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140326394 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND TIRE - A tire manufacturing method including cure-molding a top rubber, which serves as the tread surface coming in contact with the road surface, cure-molding abase tire having abase rubber on its outer periphery to which the top rubber is bonded, and forming a tire by integrating the top rubber and the base tire together. The tire is characterized in that the loss tangent (tan δ) of the base rubber is smaller than the loss tangent (tan δ) of the top rubber, the 100% Mod of the base rubber is within a range of 60% to 85% of the 100% Mod of the top rubber, and the thickness of the base rubber is within a range of 10% to 30% of the total thickness of the tread on the tire. | 11-06-2014 |
| 156129000 | Shaping | 1 |
| 20160250895 | TIRE WITH PRE-FORMED TREAD AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | 09-01-2016 |
| 156130000 | By winding or including application of inextensible lamina under tread bond | 3 |
| 20090025857 | Method And Machine For Rubberizing An Annular Surface Of A Body - Method and machine for rubberizing an annular surface of a body, the rubberized coating being applied by bringing said annular surface into rotation about an axis and progressively coating the annular surface itself by means of a strip, of a determined section, of elastomeric material supplied by an extruder, shaped by at least one calender and applied, at a determined application speed, to the annular surface to be rubberized by an applicator roller having a determined peripheral speed and positioned tangential to the annular surface to be rubberized at a point of application of the strip; the rotation of the annular surface being controlled so as to maintain the application speed constant; and the section of the strip being controlled by applying to the strip a first drawing, always constant, between the applicator roller and the annular surface to be rubberized, and a further drawing upstream to the first drawing; the further being constant to apply to the annular surface a strip with a constant section, or variable in order to apply to the annular surface a strip with variable section according to a determined law. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090188609 | Process for assembling a tire - A process for assembling a tire, including producing a crown of said tire on a drum of variable diameter of a generally cylindrical form. The assembling process includes: positioning the drum at a first diameter D | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090301640 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ADHERING BELT EDGE TAPE - According to the present invention, in adhering a belt edge tape ( | 12-10-2009 |
| 156130300 | With specified procedure for interlocking of lamina or removal of air from therebetween; e.g., "stitching", etc. | 1 |
| 20160151990 | DRUM FOR MANUFACTURING BELT AND TREAD OF A TIRE | 06-02-2016 |
| 156130500 | With specified procedure for cooling or heating; e.g., for vulcanization, etc. | 3 |
| 20090050257 | Method and Device for Producing a Tread for a Vehicle Tire - A tread for a vehicle tire, such as a pneumatic vehicle tire, is provided with an electrically conducting layer axially inside a portion of a first, radially outer rubber layer of the tread. The electrically conductive layer extends from a second, radially inner rubber layer of the tread on the radially inner side of the tread rubber material up to a ground contact surface of the tread. The rubber material of the electrically conducting layer and the rubber material of the radially inner rubber layer of the tread have a higher electrical conductivity than the rubber material of the radially outer rubber layer. First, a first rubber layer of higher electrical conductivity is formed over the circumference of the vehicle tire, and an accumulation of rubber material of higher electrical conductivity is built to extend over the circumference of the vehicle tire in a position in the region of axial extent of the layer of rubber material of higher electrical conductivity that is intended to extend up to the ground contact surface in the finished vehicle tire. Then the accumulation of rubber material is shaped to form a web, radially outwards from the inner rubber layer, and in its cross-sectional planes containing the axis of the vehicle tire a predetermined cross-sectional contour. Then the outer rubber layer of lower electrical conductivity is built on the radially outer surface of the first rubber layer, which adjoins the shaped web of rubber material of higher conductivity axially on both sides, and the tread profile is shaped and vulcanized. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090242103 | Method and a plant for manufacturing tyres - A plant includes a carcass-assembling line in which carcass structures are formed through assembling of semifinished products, and a carcass building line in which carcass structures are built through laying of elementary components onto a carcass-building support including an inflatable bladder set in an inflated condition. Belt structures possibly provided with a tread band and produced separately are each coaxially disposed around a built carcass structure on the building support and applied thereto following a radial expansion of the inflatable bladder. In a vulcanisation mould, the building support is submitted to an over-inflation step to press the tyre against the inner walls of the mould. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20120285606 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PNEUMATIC TIRE - A manufacturing method for pneumatic tire includes a process in which a raw cover ( | 11-15-2012 |
