Tire Tread Including Feature Within Groove Patents (Class D12/900)
  • Tire
    Patent number: 11745546
    Abstract: A tire 1 includes a pair of crown circumferential grooves 30, a pair of shoulder circumferential grooves 31, a crown land portion 40, and a pair of middle land portions 41 and 42, the crown land portion 40 includes a main crown shallow groove 100 and at least two sub-crown shallow grooves 101 and 102 each extending so as to communicate with the crown circumferential groove 30 and the main crown shallow groove 100, the pair of middle land portions 41 and 42 include V-shaped slots 201 and 202, respectively, and the sub-crown shallow grooves 101 and 102 and the slots 201 and 202 are located so as to be substantially point-symmetrical about a midpoint between positions at which the adjacent sub-crown shallow grooves 101 and 102 communicate with the main crown shallow groove 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Taniguchi
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D714716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf, Florian Kristen
  • Tire
    Patent number: D715730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire
    Patent number: D717726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Automobile tire
    Patent number: D718227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Honda
  • Pneumatic tire
    Patent number: D730272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: James R. Fleckner
  • Tire tread lug
    Patent number: D736698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: Paula R. Lundgren
  • Tread portion of an automobile tire
    Patent number: D748045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutake Kitamura
  • Tread portion of an automobile tire
    Patent number: D763179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kitajima
  • Tire
    Patent number: D765582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIAN TYRES PLC
    Inventors: Mikko Jokinen, Tomi Korkama, Niko Haanketo, Niko Nummi
  • Tire
    Patent number: D768559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Tire
    Patent number: D768563
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Tread portion of an automobile tire
    Patent number: D770364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takamitsu Nakamura
  • Tyre
    Patent number: D772146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIAN TYRES PLC
    Inventors: Jorma Tikka, Slava Bukarev, Mikko Jokinen, Niko Nummi
  • Tread portion of an automobile tire
    Patent number: D772797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takatoshi Ono
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D776602
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Andrew J. Lucas
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D778811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Kitty F. Chen
  • Tire
    Patent number: D778812
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Tire
    Patent number: D779418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Shuzhi Zhang, Yunxiang Qian, Feiyun Weng
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D780105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Davide Renis
  • Tire
    Patent number: D780681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean-Julien Edouard Ghislain Krier, Georges Gaston Feider
  • Tyre
    Patent number: D784913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIAN TYRES PLC
    Inventors: Jorma Tikka, Slava Bukarev, Niko Nummi
  • Tire
    Patent number: D786785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Albert Maurice Pol Ghislain Lerusse, Philippe Joseph Auguste Muller, Marc Becker
  • Tire
    Patent number: D789290
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SHANDONG LINGLONG TYRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Wang, Xiaoyun Yang, Dong Chen
  • Tire
    Patent number: D810005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Inventor: Jinlin Ma
  • Tire
    Patent number: D813796
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Leyla Kristen Renner, Derek John Becker, Ashley Amanda Jones
  • Tire
    Patent number: D813797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Ashley Amanda Jones
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D815021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Oji
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D815022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Oji
  • Tire
    Patent number: D825441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Sato
  • Tire
    Patent number: D827558
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D832777
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Lisa Bachtel, Charles McPillan, Kai Chun Yang
  • Automobile tire
    Patent number: D844546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Noboru Kuwahara
  • Automobile tire
    Patent number: D844547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Hiroshi Tokizaki
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D845224
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Zachary Kochanek
  • Tire
    Patent number: D851023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Shandong Linglong Tyre Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Wang, Jingjing Liu, Xueling Zhang, Hongling Feng, Xiaogang Ma, Haitao Sui
  • Tire for vehicle
    Patent number: D853948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Qingdao Sentury Tire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xueyi Wang, Yixin Zhang, Jingjing Ma
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D873763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Matthew J. Petr
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D879024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Kurt A. Thieman
  • Tire
    Patent number: D880404
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventor: Olivier Ropars
  • Tire
    Patent number: D882501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Tongli Tyre Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jixiang Lin, Ming Gao, Hui Wang
  • Tire
    Patent number: D883909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Tire
    Patent number: D884590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Honghua Zhang
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D885310
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yamaoka
  • Tire
    Patent number: D886033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Kristen
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D894111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hana Sato
  • Automobile tire
    Patent number: D895537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shun Sato
  • Tire
    Patent number: D901372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robin Moia, Jan Frans Leyssens, Xavier Jean-Francois Beot, Christian Jean-Marie Kaes, Marco Malago
  • Tire
    Patent number: D914585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventor: Fan Zhong
  • Tire
    Patent number: D988238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TIANJIN WANDA TYRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Geng, Zhili Lai