Patents Represented by Attorney David L. King
  • Patent number: 6837101
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the properties of rubber elastic tires, in particular motor vehicle tires, in dependence on simulated driving loads and/or running states for the rotation of a tire to be measured at a tire contact patch and apparatus for simulating driving loads and/or running states, in particular with respect to the rotational speed, to the weight load and to the slip angle of the tire, wherein a device for measuring the visco-elastic properties of the tire is provided at the apparatus and is designed for direct use on the tire disposed in the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Klaus Unseld
  • Patent number: 6827119
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improved radially expansible tire assembly drum (10) and a method forming tires (2) from an assemblage of tire components utilizing the assembly drum (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Douglas Raymond Weaver, William Dudley Currie, Dennis Alan Lundell
  • Patent number: 6817395
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial ply tire 20 has a tread 24, a carcass 21, and a belt reinforcing structure 40. The carcass 21 has a steel cord reinforced radial ply extending from one annular bead to a second annular bead. The belt reinforcing structure 40 has at least two belt layers 40A, 40B having steel cords 14 with large filaments 17A, 17B, 17C, 17D in the range of 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm in diameter twisted into a 7×7 cord construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Italo Marziale Sinopoli, Charles Elmer Hamiel, Barry Allen Matrana
  • Patent number: 6808376
    Abstract: A vulcanization mold is described for the manufacture of technical rubber products comprising a plurality of vent bores in which a blocking member is mounted which consists of a central body and a sealing part coupled to it which together form at least one angled flow path for air to be dissipated, with the central body being fixed in the vent bores, on the one hand, by clamping ribs provided at the central body and, on the other hand, by blocking elements which are formed at spring limbs of the sealing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Tayfun Serener-Thielmann
  • Patent number: D501181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Brown, Alan Nicholls
  • Patent number: D493766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Masahiro Hanya
  • Patent number: D495990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas
  • Patent number: D496324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Maurice Graas, Richard Heinen
  • Patent number: D496327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Jaroslaw Antoni Kotwica
  • Patent number: D496328
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jonathan James Shondel, Paul Bryan Maxwell
  • Patent number: D496903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Fumihiro Tsubono
  • Patent number: D497590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Brown, Alan Nicholls
  • Patent number: D497593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Billy Joe Ratliff, Jr., Michael Carl Schiavone
  • Patent number: D497875
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Phuoc Thuan Le, Franck Jean-Louis Bouffay, Jean-Claude Alie, Jacques Collette
  • Patent number: D498205
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Austin Gale Young, Jean-Michel Gillard, John Kotanides, Jr.
  • Patent number: D498207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Walter Lee Welker
  • Patent number: D498208
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean-François Cazin-Bourguignon, Phuoc Thuan Le
  • Patent number: D498729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Anthony Neubauer, Mark Henry Mineur, Timothy Patrick Lovell
  • Patent number: D499374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael Jackson, Gianni Mario Zannoni, Chris Michael Zawistowski
  • Patent number: D500010
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Miroslaw Bogdan Maziarka, Bernd Moritz