Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David E Wheeler
  • Unique radial passenger tire construction for RAT/RLF
    Patent number: 6321809
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire, which may be used as a control tire for calibrating tire testing equipment, comprises a pair of annular beads (40), at least one carcass ply (15) wrapped around the beads, belt reinforcement (13,14,16) disposed over the at least one carcass ply in a crown area of the tire, a tread (12) disposed over the belt reinforcement, and sidewalls (18) disposed between the tread (12) and the beads (40), The tire is made with a tread (12) having no grooves or sipes, and which comprises a radial medium truck tire retreading compound. The belt reinforcement (17,17a,17b ) is laid up in the circumference of the tire with a low angle, i.e. less than 0.75° with respect to the EP of the tire in the second belt (14), and less than 0.5° with respect to the EP of the tire in the first belt (13,16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jerold Robert Buenger, Mark Henry Seloover
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451440
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Michael Joseph Weber
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Michael Joseph Weber
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Kenneth Jenner Powell, Pierre Harpes, Bernard Marie Henin
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Michel Marguerite Walther Ghislain Constant, Claude Lardo
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Johan Peter Dahlberg
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Paul Bryan Maxwell
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Scott Herman Smith
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Paul Bryan Maxwell, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Lonita Sue Mast, Randall Raymond Brayer, Joseph Louis Aull
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: John Kevin Clark, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Lonita Sue Mast, Randall Raymond Brayer, Joseph Louis Aull
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Kenneth Jenner Powell, Pierre Harpes, Bernard Marie Henin
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Richard Heinen
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Mark David Slingluff, Adrian Thomas O'Neill
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451862
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyer Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Maurice Graas, Laurent Colantonio
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451866
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Billy Joe Ratliff, Jr., Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Lonita Sue Mast, Randall Raymond Brayer, Joseph Louis Aull
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: John Kevin Clark, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Lonita Sue Mast, Randall Raymond Brayer, Joseph Louis Aull
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D451868
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Maurice Graas, Claude Lardo