Patents Assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
  • Patent number: 11964512
    Abstract: A utility vehicle tire having a tread with at least two circumferential channels (3), which are formed to a profile depth (T) and which separate central profile positives (1) and shoulder-side profile positives (2) from one another, the circumferential channels (3) having channel flanks (5a, 5b) toward the central profile positives (1) and the shoulder-side profile positives (2) having shoulder flanks (6) running toward the side wall. The channels have depressions delimited by a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Kristen, Alexander Wuest
  • Publication number: 20240116316
    Abstract: A two-wheeled vehicle pneumatic tire having a tread, a tire carcass, tire sidewalls, and two bead regions with a bead protective strip. The tire carcass is formed from a first carcass inlay and a second carcass inlay. The second carcass inlay is arranged radially inwardly of the first carcass inlay, and extends from a crown region (17) of the two-wheeled vehicle pneumatic tire and terminates at a second carcass inlay end under the bead protective strip. The two-wheeled vehicle pneumatic tire provides improved puncture protection whilst maintaining good rolling resistance. This is achieved in that the first carcass inlay is guided with a first carcass inlay turn-up over the particular tire sidewall as far as under the tread to a first carcass inlay end, and terminates there at the first carcass inlay end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Lengemann, Andre Schmidt, Jan-Niklas Voss
  • Patent number: 11952494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, to the vulcanizate thereof, and to a vehicle tire. The rubber mixture according to the invention comprises at least the following constituents: at least one diene rubber; and, at least one char (HTC char) obtained by hydrothermal carbonization of at least one starting substance. A vehicle tire according to the invention comprises at least one vulcanizate according to the invention of the rubber mixture in at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Hojdis, Carla Recker, Michael Wark, Hendrik Multhaupt
  • Patent number: 11945262
    Abstract: The invention relates to a utility vehicle tire tyre having a tread with at least one circumferential channel (2, 2?, 2?) with a channel base (5) and channel walls (4, 4?). Base elevations are formed on the channel base. A top surface (8, 8?, 8?) of the base elevations (7, 7?, 7?) slopes downward uniformly toward the surface edge, wherein the channel walls (4, 4?) have, to the side of the base elevations (7, 7?, 7?), wall sections (4b, 4?b) which are convexly curved toward one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Lutz, Florian Kristen
  • Patent number: 11932753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a silane, to a rubber mixture containing the silane and to a vehicle tire comprising the rubber mixture in at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: David-Raphael Dauer, Andreas Jacob, Julian Strohmeier
  • Patent number: 11919263
    Abstract: A method for the weight-dependent control of the internal pressure of a supporting body loaded by a weight load or payload, wherein the internal pressure is produced by means of an electric-motor-driven compressor, and the weight load or payload which is present and which acts on a supporting body in the form of a mass mLoad under the effect of acceleration due to gravity g is determined in that a reduction and a subsequent increase in the internal pressure take place, wherein the increase in the internal pressure causes the position of an application point of the weight load or payload to change by a position difference ?Z, wherein: during the increasing of the internal pressure by means of the compressor, the motor current ILoad of the drive motor of the compressor is measured with a constant motor voltage U and integrated over the time of the increase in pressure, and the electrical work WLoad which is necessary for the change in position is determined therefrom, wherein the electrical work WLoad the el
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Zaum, Rainer Detering
  • Publication number: 20240050959
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining natural rubber from plant material containing at least the step of milling the plant material with at least one ball mill comprising milling media. The invention further relates to the natural rubber obtained by this process and to the use of at least one ball mill comprising milling media for milling plant material when obtaining natural rubber from plant material. In the process, the ball mill has a nonmetallic lining and/or the milling media have at least a nonmetallic surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Carla Recker, Frank Behm, Katharina Herzog, Norbert Janczak, Carsten Venz, Dirk Prüfer, Christian Schulze Gronover
  • Publication number: 20240051248
    Abstract: The invention relates to a puncture assistance device 1 for sealing and inflating vehicle tires, comprising a pressure source, the puncture assistance device 1 having at least one battery, which supplies power to the pressure source. The invention also relates to a method for charging such a puncture assistance device 1, the puncture assistance device 1 being charged in a vehicle by means of a power supply interface 9 and/or inductively. The invention is directed to a system for charging a puncture assistance device 1, comprising a vehicle with an inductive charging surface, and a puncture assistance device 1 of this type, the puncture assistance device 1 being arranged in the charging region of the inductive charging surface in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Schlosser
  • Publication number: 20240051346
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic tire for a vehicle, having at least one surface element (2) that is formed on the outer surface of the tire and has a structure (6) which contrasts with a base level (NB) and gives the surface element (2) a roughness. The contrast structure (6) is formed by a multiplicity of contrast structure cells (6a), which coincide in shape in plan view and are joined together in the form of a grid, wherein the contrast structure cells (6a) have irregular peak and trough structures (6b) of a surface-covering configuration, wherein the arrangement of the contrast structure cells (6a) and the configuration of the irregular peak and trough structures (6b) are such that, when considered in plan view, the irregular peak and trough structures (6b) can be transferred one into the other by congruence mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Rittweger, Juraj Jurco
  • Publication number: 20240051341
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having two or more belt plies which have reinforcement members crossing at an angle. The reinforcement members within each belt ply are arranged substantially parallel to and spaced apart from one another and are embedded in rubber material. The belt has at least one first belt ply, the reinforcement members of which are formed by ultra-tensile steel monofilaments having a tensile strength of 3080 N/mm2 to 4190 N/mm2. The steel monofilaments have a diameter D of 0.33 mm to 0.37 mm. This provides, at lower cost, a pneumatic vehicle tyre with low rolling resistance, by way of simultaneously simplified production. This is achieved in that the steel monofilaments have a torsion value of approximately zero windings in the case of a length dimension of 200 times the diameter of the steel monofilament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Joana Palavras, Viktoria Werner, Lubos Novosad
  • Publication number: 20240042806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle tire (1), having a tread face (3), the tread face (3) having at least one new tire marking (4, 7, 8) of a surface (5) which is at least partially higher than the surrounded surface of the tread face (3). The invention also relates to a method for producing a vehicle tire (1) with at least one new tire marking (4, 7, 8), in particular a described vehicle tire (1), the vehicle tire (1) being produced in a tire heating mold (2), the tire heating mold (2) having at least one at least partially engraved negative of a new tire marking (10, 13, 14) in the region of the tread face (3). The invention further relates to a tire heating mold (2) for a described method for producing a vehicle tire (1) having at least one new tire marking (4, 7, 8), in particular a described vehicle tire (1), wherein the tire heating mold (2) has an engraved negative of a new tire marking (10, 13, 14) in the region of the tread face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Hoppe, Jürgen Dzick
  • Publication number: 20240042807
    Abstract: A commercial vehicle tire intended for mounting on an E.T.R.T.O. Standards Manual standardized 15° drop-center rim (width codes 5.25 to 9.75) with two rim flanges (2) and with two rim sections (3), each with a bead seat surface (3a), wherein the commercial vehicle tire has two bead regions with bead cores (4) and in each case one bead toe (6) and one bead contour on the outside of the tire and one on the inside of the tire, which bead contours adjoin one another at the bead toe (6), wherein each bead contour on the outside of the tire has a first segment (S1), which is in contact with the rim flange (2) when the commercial vehicle tire is mounted on the rim (1), and an outer contour region, which is at least partially in contact with the bead seat surface (3a) when the commercial vehicle tire is mounted on the rim (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: David Markovic, Volkmar Fries
  • Publication number: 20240042714
    Abstract: A heating press (1) for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, having a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), wherein a circular-ring-shaped hood upper part (4) with a container (2) having the mold parts (14, 16, 17, 18, 21) of a vulcanizing mold is arranged on the heating press upper part (3), and wherein the heating press upper part (3) can be moved in an axial direction (P1) in such a way that the hood upper part (3) can be moved onto the heating press lower part (6) to form a closed hood interior space (12), wherein a press plate (23) is arranged above the container (2) in the hood upper part (4) such that this press plate (23) and thus the container (2) can be moved in the axial direction (P1), wherein at least one vacuum-tight seal (5) is arranged at least in the end face (24) of a hood part (4), wherein, in the course of a first stroke (H1), the hood upper part (3) can be moved in such a way that it rests on the heating press lower part (6) and the interior space of th
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Wenzel, Horst Wedekind, Michael Ramm
  • Publication number: 20240034861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, to a vulcanizate and to a vehicle tire. The sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture contains at least the following constituents: 50 to 100 phr of at least one polyisoprene selected from the group consisting of natural and synthetic polyisoprene and 5 to 500 phr of at least one silica and at least one silane B having the general empirical formula I) (R1)oSi—R2—Sn—R2—Si(R1)o where the R2 radicals may independently be the same or different and are unbranched alkylene groups having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 6 to 10 carbon atoms, and where n is an integer from 2 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Julien Davin, Julia Schöffel, Fabian Schax, Christine Weber, Marion Puppa
  • Publication number: 20240034013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vulcanization mold for pneumatic vehicle tires with cast mold segments (1) forming a tread of a pneumatic vehicle tire, which at least have ribs (5, 6) for forming grooves in the tread and sipes (11) for forming incisions in the tread. The invention was based on the object of creating a vulcanization mold of the type described at the outset which, while retaining the inexpensive casting method for the mold segments, enables tread profiles to be formed with grooves and incisions, with the incisions being able to have chamfers in the transition to adjacent blocks in the tread profile and in which the manufacturing limitations described are minimized. This object is achieved in that the elements (5, 6, 11) for producing grooves and incisions are at least partially subsequently introduced into the mold segments (1) after the mold segments (1) have been cast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Hoppe, Jürgen Dzick
  • Publication number: 20240025213
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread (2) which has a profiling and which has at least one circumferential groove (1) which runs in encircling fashion in the circumferential direction of the pneumatic vehicle tire and is formed to a profile depth PT and which has, in alternating fashion over the entire tire circumference over partial sections (21, 24) of the circumference of the pneumatic vehicle tire, a first cross section perpendicular to the circumferential direction and a second cross section perpendicular to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Wilke Eikermann
  • Publication number: 20240018112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound, to a rubber mixture containing the compound, to a vehicle tire comprising the rubber mixture in at least one component, to a process for producing the compound and to the use of the compound as an aging stabilizer and/or antioxidant and/or antiozonant and/or dye. The compound according to the invention has the formula I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Carla Recker, Andreas Jacob, David-Raphael Dauer, Julian Strohmeier, Anna-Lena Dreier, Jörg-August Becker, Florian Matz, Rebecca Graf, Jan Flormann
  • Publication number: 20240017574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle tire (1) with sidewalls (2) and a tread (3) and with at least one hatched area (4) on at least one of the sidewalls (2) and/or the tread (3), wherein the hatched area (4) has elongated hatching ribs (5) which are arranged largely parallel to one another. The invention also relates to a vulcanization mold and to a method for producing the vehicle tire. The object is to influence the contrast effect in an even more targeted fashion and to further increase the contrast effect. It is also intended to make it possible for the tire to be produced reliably by means of a vulcanization mold. This is achieved by each hatching rib (5) having branches (7), wherein in each case precisely one short transverse elevation (6) branches off from each branch (7) of the branches, and by the short transverse elevations (6) all branching off on a same first side (9) of the hatching ribs (5) and ending in a free end (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Rittweger, Juraj Jurco
  • Patent number: D1021760
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Nico Meier
  • Patent number: D1024919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Matthew Lamb