Patents Assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
  • Method for detecting a tire module detached from the inner face of a tire for vehicles
    Patent number: 9073393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring and detecting the detachment of a tire module from the inner face of the tire, having the following steps: measuring the centrifugal acceleration on a tire module by an acceleration sensor arranged in the tire module; forwarding the measured acceleration values to an evaluation unit; analyzing the acceleration values upon acceleration of the vehicle in the starting phase or upon constant low speeds of the vehicle; activating a warning signal in the evaluation unit, insofar as the analysis of the acceleration values results in a statistically significant standard deviation in comparison to a not detached tire module from the inner face of another tire, thus detecting a freely tumbling tire module in the hollow space of the tire; outputting a warning signal indicating which tire module has detached from the inner face of the tire to the vehicle owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Hanna
  • Sulfur-crosslinkable rubberizing mixture
    Patent number: 9074075
    Abstract: A sulfur-crosslinkable rubberizing mixture for strengthening elements in motor vehicle pneumatic tires comprises 70 to 100 phr (parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of total rubbers in the mixture) of natural rubber, up to 30 phr of at least one polybutadiene, 40 to 70 phr of at least one carbon black and a bonding system. Further, motor vehicle pneumatic tires are disclosed that comprise the sulfur-crosslinked rubberizing mixture. The key conflict between tear propagation resistance, stiffness and heat build-up is solved by virtue of the carbon black being a nanostructured carbon black with a rough surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Torbruegge, Marc Kreye, Thomas Kramer, Carla Recker
  • Pneumatic tires for commercial vehicles
    Patent number: 9034980
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a commercial vehicle with a tread, wherein at least the part of the tread which comes into contact with the road contains a sulphur-vulcanized rubber mixture. The sulphur-vulcanized rubber mixture contains 90 to 50 phr (parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight, of all of the rubbers in the mixture) of natural rubber, 10 to 50 phr of at least one polybutadiene having a glass transition temperature Tg of ?110 to ?65° C. and 5 to 50 phr of at least one aliphatic and/or aromatic hydrocarbon resin having a softening point (ring and ball to ASTM E 28) of 0 to 150° C., and a mean molecular weight Mn of less than 2000 g/mol and a polydispersity D=Mw/Mn of 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Carla Recker, Philipp Koelle, Thomas Kramer, Christoph Jocher, Thorsten Torbruegge, Fabian Dettmer, Norbert Daldrup
  • Bicycle tire with reinforcement layer
    Patent number: 9016341
    Abstract: Bicycle tires with at least one reinforcement layer that contains strength supports and that is arranged between carcass and tread rubber and/or between carcass layers below the tread rubber and/or within the tread rubber. For a high resistance to puncturing with low weight, the reinforcement layer contains multifilament threads of more than 30 polyester/polyarylate filaments, and the filaments are spun from molten liquid-crystal polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Klapp, Wolfgang Bende
  • Process for producing polymer-functionalized filler particles
    Patent number: 8912267
    Abstract: A process for producing polymer-functionalized filler particles and polymer-functionalized filler particles obtained by this process. The polymer-functionalized filler particles are used as additives for rubber mixtures. The polymers for functionalizing the filler particles are obtained in-situ starting from filler particles having a surface-bound RAFT agent. The binding of silyl-bearing RAFT agents and of Diels-Alder RAFT agents occurs via the R-group and the subsequent RAFT polymerization proceeds via a reactive site of the RAFT agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Katharina Herzog, Phillip Vana, Lena Mueller, Bjoern Springer, Carla Recker
  • Pneumatic vehicle tire
    Patent number: 8887780
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire, in particular for heavy commercial trucks, having a tread with a number of circumferential grooves which run in the circumferential direction and which separate profile positives, such as block rows or profile ribs, from one another. The circumferential grooves are each bounded by a groove base and two groove edges. In order to effectively prevent the occurrence of tears at the groove base of the circumferential grooves, in particular at the groove base of the circumferential grooves which extend on the shoulder side, the groove base extends, viewed in cross section and in the axial direction, at an angle of inclination of 3 degrees to 15 degrees with respect to an envelope which encompasses the outer faces of the profile positives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Lutz Ackermann, Volkmar Fries, Wolfgang Milchers
  • Optimal tire performance indicator
    Patent number: 8857252
    Abstract: A tire performance indicator for a tire includes at least one tread wear indicator region structured and arranged in a tread region of the tire and at least one performance symbol guide structured and arranged approximate a sidewall region of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthew Lamb, Robort Liu
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D715215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Matthew Lamb
  • Tire
    Patent number: D715730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire
    Patent number: D716217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Rittweger
  • Tire
    Patent number: D716719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D716720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Seng, Franz Diensthuber
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D717240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire
    Patent number: D717726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D725585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Brandau, Franz Diensthuber, Jan Schlittenhard
  • Tire
    Patent number: D725587
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D727841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Rittweger
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D728459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Kristen
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D728461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Matthew Lamb
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D731961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Rittweger