Patents Represented by Attorney Richard B. O'Planick

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  • Rim mounted pressure monitoring system for a tire with protected monitoring module
    Patent number: 7642904
    Abstract: A tire and wheel rim assembly includes a tire supporting rim having an outward facing mounting surface and at least one tire body mounted to the rim and positioning an internal tire cavity over the rim mounting surface. A tire pressure monitoring module assembly mounts to the rim mounting surface and includes a housing having an internal pressure chamber; a pressure sensing device and/or a temperature measuring sensor within the housing pressure chamber; and an elongate connecting member extending through the housing and the rim mounting surface. A crossover pipe connects the housing pressure chamber with a remote portion of the rim. The inflation pressure in the tire cavity is transferred through the axial passageway of the crossover pipe to the pressure chamber within the module housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Richard Nicholas Crano
  • Self-locking tire mold apparatus
    Patent number: 7628599
    Abstract: A segmented mold 2 for molding a tire 100 is described which has a central axis; plurality of radially movable tread forming segments; two sidewall forming plates, a top sidewall forming plate 8, and a bottom sidewall forming plate 6; a top locking ring 10 having a plurality of circumferentially spaced openings 30 for locking the segments 4, each opening for locking 30 providing a predetermined angular path 75 for radially contracting the segments 4 upon closing the mold 2 in a locked position. The segmented 2 mold for molding a tire 100 further has a bottom locking ring 20 having a complementary plurality of circumferentially spaced openings 30 for locking the segments 4, each opening for locking 30 providing a predetermined angular path for radially contracting the segments 4 upon closing the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Girard, Michael Thomas Driscoll, Mark Anthony Sieverding
  • Shoulder tread for a tire
    Patent number: D605105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Geoffrey Harold Klein
  • Tire
    Patent number: D605109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, John Kotanides, Jr.
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D606002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Hideto Yamakawa, Tetsuya Sakaguchi, Takehiko Murata
  • Tire for motorcycle
    Patent number: D606004
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Steven Paul Donnelly, Neill Rampton
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D606006
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Iwai
  • Tire
    Patent number: D606007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Vincent Dominque Claude Rion, Alexander Ossipov
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D606009
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Keita Nakano
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D606013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: James Elliott Reese, Paul Bryan Maxwell
  • Sidewall element
    Patent number: D606014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kujime
  • Sidewall element
    Patent number: D606015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: The Gooydear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kujime
  • Tire for motorcycle
    Patent number: D606483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Steven Paul Donnelly, Neill Rampton
  • Tire
    Patent number: D606925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Christian Shavers, Jonathan James Shondel, Bart Wakefield Kimble, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Kelly Sue King, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire
    Patent number: D606926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Alexander Ossipov, Nicolas Claude Jean-Claude Froger
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D606933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Alfredo Palma, Lowie Vermeersch, Marco Capolicchio
  • Tire
    Patent number: D607809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Yacine Ouyahia, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Andreas Sieber, Gilles Bonnet
  • Tire
    Patent number: D607811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Delwyn Lovell Harvey, Daniel Christian Shavers, Shannon Joseph Hughes, Daniel Abe Alford, Kelly Sue King, Leyla Kristen Renner, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Jennifer Leigh Gabor, Brian David Digman, Kevin Lee Burnworth
  • Tire
    Patent number: D607812
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Keith Eric Grabo, Casey McCutcheon Brooke, Kevin Michael Masa, Karl Eric Sundkvist
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D608275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Paul Bryan Maxwell