Patents by Inventor William M. Hopkins

William M. Hopkins 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).

  • Patent number: 4688617
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire (10) has a plurality of radial carcass plies (16,18). One of the carcass plies (16) has a high turn-up that ends under the belt reinforcing structure (42). The other carcass ply (18) has its lateral edges (34,36) located radially inwardly of the widest part of the tire (SD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William M. Hopkins, Perry W. Bell, Russell A. Carolla, Jon A. Gerspacher, Peter R. Shepler, Thomas H. Wells
  • Patent number: 4238259
    Abstract: Tendency of a tire bead core to be rotated by the tire ply wrapped around the core, when the tire is expanded from a cylindrical or collapsed state to its normal toroidal operating state, particularly after the tire is cured, is inhibited, or eliminated by arrangement of the ply relative to the bead core which disposes the ply tension force direction at or nearly at the bead core centerThe foregoing abstract is not to be taken as limiting the invention of this application, and in order to understand the full nature and extent of the technical disclosure of this application, reference must be made to the accompanying drawing and the following detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael L. Gill, William M. Hopkins
  • Patent number: 4177851
    Abstract: Tendency of a tire bead core to be rotated by the tire ply wrapped around the core, when the tire is expanded from a cylindrical or collapsed state to its normal toroidal operating state, particularly after the tire is cured, is inhibited, or eliminated by arrangement of the ply relative to the bead core which disposes the ply tension force direction at or nearly at the bead core center.The foregoing abstract is not to be taken as limiting the invention of this application, and in order to understand the full nature and extent of the technical disclosure of this application, reference must be made to the accompanying drawing and the following detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael L. Gill, William M. Hopkins