Patents Represented by Attorney Alan A. Csontos

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  • Apparatus for monitoring tread thickness during tire buffing
    Patent number: 6386024
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the depth of tread on a tire being buffed includes a sensing device, for example, a magnetic sensor, mounted to a reciprocating motion carrier. The carrier is driven by a drive wheel that is in contact with the tire being buffed. The carrier is movably mounted to float over the surface of the tire, that is, accommodate variations in the tire surface, with a guide wheel following the tire surface to maintain the sensor at a constant distance from the tire surface. The sensor on the carrier reciprocally traverses the crown of the tire as the tire rotates to obtain actual values for the thickness of the rubber above the belts over the whole surface of the crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Marck, Fred G. Mayntz, Robert G. Young
  • Tire bead core and filler construction
    Patent number: 6374888
    Abstract: The run-flat tire (10) of this invention includes spaced apart bead areas (30) having a unique design to include first (34) and second (36) bead fillers adjacent a bead core (32). The second bead filler (36) is bounded by the first bead filler (34) and bead core (32). The method for manufacturing the tire to eliminate voids at the bead core (32) of the cured tire is also provided. The bead fillers are made to be resilient so that the tire can be easily mounted on a rim, particularly improving the ability to mount a run-flat tire (10) on a rim (80). The bead core (32) and fillers (34, 36) are designed for helping to sustain the run-flat tire (10) on the rim (80) with a loss of inflation pressure and to improve the running performance of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Lee Willard, Jr., James Milo Endicott, Jeffrey Scott Craddock
  • Two-piece segmented mold
    Patent number: 6318985
    Abstract: An improved two-piece segmented mold includes a plurality of tread mold segments mounted to a frustoconical seat in a mold back by a T-shaped guide bar inserted in a guide slot formed in the seat. The segments are biased to a normally closed position in abutment with adjacent segments and in abutment with a mold side plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: John F. Heindel, Joe E. Birch, Jr., Richard A. Spivey, Lawrence W. Stachniak, Robert G. Tyler
  • Quick release device for a tire mold plate
    Patent number: 6315539
    Abstract: A mold for a tire includes a device for easily releasing a pocket plate from a recess in a side wall ring. The device includes a rod movably disposed in a hole in the mold part that extends from an outer surface to adjacent the recess. The distal end of the rod includes a cam surface wherein movement of the rod causes the cam to press on the pocket plate to urge it from the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Rechereche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Barry Stanley Yutronkie, Theodore Allan Seyler
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D447098
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Jane Kathleen Oliver
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D449816
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: John Anthony Hutz
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D450021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Preston Butler Kemp, Jr.
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D450269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Jane Kathleen Oliver
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D450293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Ellen McDonald Williams
  • Set of colored tread bands for a tire
    Patent number: D451056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Philip B. Webb
  • Pattern for randomly positioned color-contrasting tread elements
    Patent number: D453129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Philip B. Webb, Jeffrey L. Cooper
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D454535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Preston Butler Kemp, Jr.
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D454536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Jane Kathleen Oliver
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D454833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Jon Buresh, Sylvian Marie Christian Leynaert
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D455118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Jane Kathleen Oliver
  • Shoulder portions of a tire
    Patent number: D455682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: John Anthony Hutz, Stephen Lash
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D455710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Jane Kathleen Oliver
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D456320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: John Anthony Hutz, Stephen Lash
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D458896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Preston Butler Kemp, Jr.
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D459292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Joseph George Hoover, John Anthony Hutz, Oscar Francisco Pereda, Philip Blair Webb