Patents Represented by Attorney Richard B. O'Planick
  • Patent number: 8042586
    Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube mounted within a tire sidewall groove. The air tube is in contacting engagement with opposite angled groove surfaces surrounding the air tube. A segment of the air tube is flattened from an expanded diameter to a flat diameter by bending and compression of the groove in a rolling tire footprint to force air evacuated from the flattened segment along a tube air passageway. The sidewall groove extends into an annular, axially extending, sidewall surface such as an axially oriented surface of a tire chafer protrusion located in non-contacting relationship with the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Allen Losey, Robert Leon Benedict
  • Patent number: D644593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Maurice Graas, Jean-Francois Vandeclee, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Thierry Botman, Stephane Jose Geelen, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Michel Pierre Charles Robert
  • Patent number: D644600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Bernard Robert Nicolas, Nizar Toumni
  • Patent number: D645806
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Ashley Amanda Strader
  • Patent number: D645807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Alexandre Andre Scharis, Alain Joseph Jose Godefroid, Jean-Nicolas Helt
  • Patent number: D645808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Patent number: D645809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Murphy, Karl Eric Sundkvist
  • Patent number: D645810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Phuoc Thuan Le, Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Christophe Henri Joseph Schyns, Czeslaw Andrzej Ratajewicz
  • Patent number: D646626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Takehiko Murata
  • Patent number: D646627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Patent number: D646630
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Alexandre Andre Scharis, Peter Johann Cornelius Maus
  • Patent number: D647033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Takehiko Murata, Ryo Oba
  • Patent number: D647034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Satoshi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: D647040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Christophe Henri Joseph Schyns, Phuoc Thuan Le, Czeslaw Andrzej Ratajewicz
  • Patent number: D647044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Patent number: D647464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Alexandre Andre Scharis, Jean-Julien Edouard Ghislain Krier, Fabien Desarcon, Alain Joseph Jose Godefroid
  • Patent number: D647465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company
    Inventor: Satoshi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: D648260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Shingo Ishida
  • Patent number: D648267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Jonathan James Shondel
  • Patent number: D648268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Jonathan James Shondel