Patents by Inventor Joseph Ghana Dancy

Joseph Ghana Dancy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Tire with bead filler runflat inserts
    Patent number: 6135181
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (10) has a pair of sidewall portions (20), a pair of bead regions (22) and a carcass (30) reinforced with at least two sidewall fillers or inserts (42), (46) for each sidewall portion and at least one cord reinforced ply (38) and two bead cores (26) one in each bead region and a reinforcing belt structure (36). This tire is preferably a runflat radial ply tire. The at least one cord reinforced ply (38) has a pair of turnup ends (32) wrapped around the pair of bead cores (26). The turnup ends (32) each extend radially outwardly to a terminal end (33) at a radial height of at least 40% of the tire section height (SH). The first insert for each sidewall portion lies radially inward and adjacent the at least one ply (38). The second insert (46) for each sidewall portion is a bead filler insert radially above the bead core (26) and between the at least one ply (38) and its turnup end (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony Curtis Paonessa, Mark Henry Seloover, John Janes Beck, Jr., Thomas Reed Oare, Joseph Ghana Dancy
  • Tire with carcass turn up ends under belt structure
    Patent number: 5871602
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 10 has a pair of sidewall portions 20, a pair of bead regions 22 and a carcass 30 reinforced with at least two sidewall fillers or inserts 42, 46 for each sidewall portion and at least one cord reinforced ply 38 and two bead cores 26 one in each bead region and a reinforcing belt structure 36. This tire is preferably a runflat radial ply tire. The at least one cord reinforced ply 38 has a pair of turnup ends 32 wrapped around the pair of bead cores 26. The turnup ends 32 each extend radially outwardly to a terminal end 33 located under the reinforcing belt structure 36. The first insert 42 for each sidewall portion lies radially inward and adjacent the at least one ply 38. The second insert 46 for each sidewall portion is radially between the at least one ply 38 and its turnup end 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony Curtis Paonessa, Mark Henry Seloover, John Janes Beck, Jr., Thomas Reed Oare, Joseph Ghana Dancy
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D243659
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1977
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Plummer
  • Tire
    Patent number: D601952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Christian Shavers, Brandy Elizabeth Moorhead, Marc Christopher Nowacki, Colleen Anne Nowacki, Joseph Ghana Dancy, David Ray Hubbell, Jr.