Zigzag Type Patents (Class D12/516)
  • Patent number: 10647161
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including a tread portion, sidewall portions, and bead portions. The tread portion comprises a center main groove extending in the tire circumferential direction and a shoulder main groove located outward of the center main groove and extending in the tire circumferential direction. A land portion is defined between the center main groove and the shoulder main groove. The center main groove has a zigzag shape in the tire circumferential direction. Lug grooves extending inward from the shoulder main groove in the tire lateral direction and terminating without communicating with the center main groove are provided in the land portion. A bent portion bent toward a first side in the tire circumferential direction is formed at a terminating end of each of the lug grooves. Narrow grooves extending discontinuously in the tire circumferential direction without communicating with the bent portions are formed in the land portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shibai
  • Patent number: 10500902
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire according to the present technology includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, and bead portions, and has a designated mounting direction on a vehicle. The pneumatic tire is provided, in the tread portion, with four main grooves including a pair of center main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and a pair of shoulder main grooves located outside the center main grooves and extending in the tire circumferential direction; these main grooves define five rows of land portions; the center main groove on the vehicle outer side has a zigzag shape in the tire circumferential direction; and a plurality of lug grooves extending from the main grooves, except the center main groove having a zigzag shape, toward both sides in the tire lateral direction and terminating in the land portions are provided in the tread portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shibai
  • Patent number: D524720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC
    Inventor: Keith A. Dumigan
  • Patent number: D524721
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC
    Inventors: Keith A. Dumigan, Francis Byrne, Yasuo Himuro, John P. Rodak, David C. Spragg, Andrew Svenson, Jon I. Stuckey
  • Patent number: D578470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC
    Inventors: John J. Regallis, Paula R. Lundgren, Shawn L. Copeland, John J. Norwood
  • Patent number: D626496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: Societe de Technologie Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Bertrand Fraenkel, Arnaud Frappart, Michel Montarras
  • Patent number: D626497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: Societe de Technologie Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Bertrand Fraenkel, Sébastien Fugier, Arnaud Frappart
  • Patent number: D630997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Inventors: Richard R. Wright, Kent D. Weatherwax, James G. Guspodin, John Sabistina
  • Patent number: D647026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D647027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D647028
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D660783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Behr, Holger Berkmann, Markus Fischer
  • Patent number: D662032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Behr
  • Patent number: D696621
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Delwyn Lovell Harvey, Charles Joseph Ashton, Shannon Joseph Hughes
  • Patent number: D716216
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Morito, Takahisa Murata
  • Patent number: D718219
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Berzins, Jacob Kidney, Cory Williams
  • Patent number: D725584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Establishments Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Olivier Ropars
  • Patent number: D798799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Christopher Byron Davis, Shannon Joseph Hughes, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Jonathan James Shondel
  • Patent number: D798800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Christopher Byron Davis, Nicholas Thomas Schoeppner, Jonathan James Shondel
  • Patent number: D800636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Morita
  • Patent number: D819546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Suzuki, Takumi Morito
  • Patent number: D848350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Estelle Perrier, Phillipe Quinsat, Damien Velay
  • Patent number: D894093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi Kameda
  • Patent number: D894094
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi Kameda
  • Patent number: D900008
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Diego Ettore Speziari, Stefano Montesello, Carlo Raffaele Elvio Ravizza, Giulio Lorenzo Dupre′
  • Patent number: D958050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mizuki Kuninaka, Noboru Kuwahara
  • Patent number: D988242
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryohei Takemori
  • Patent number: D1001720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mizuki Kuninaka, Noboru Kuwahara
  • Patent number: D1012827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mizuki Kuninaka, Noboru Kuwahara