Patents Assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
  • TEST FACILITY FOR A VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE TIRE
    Publication number: 20140250997
    Abstract: A test facility for a vehicle having at least one tire includes an acceleration track; a test section; a return track; a guide defining a direction of travel; a slide configured to run on the guide and to guide the vehicle; a building defining an interior space; at least a part of the test facility being disposed in the interior space of the building; and, the test section being configured to be displaceable in at least one of a first direction transverse to the direction of travel and a second direction in the direction of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Cord Sprenger, Klaus Asendorf
  • Tire having ribs, circumferential grooves and sipe pairs
    Patent number: 8820373
    Abstract: Tire having a tread pattern with superior performance characteristics. The tread pattern includes ribs and circumferential grooves which are at least one of tapered and/or generally V-shaped. The walls of each circumferential groove have a wavy and/or sinusoidal contour extending in a generally circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel S. Mathews
  • Method of making a solvent-free polymer-based tire sealant
    Patent number: 8821982
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a tire sealant (C) with a polymeric base. A highly viscous first sealant component (A) (including a natural rubber component that is undiluted or diluted with at least one additional natural rubber component and mixture ingredients that are free of a solvent and an activator) is mixed with at least one second sealant component (B) (comprising a separately produced medium with low viscosity containing at least one activator), to combine to the tire sealant (C), wherein a cross linking occurs associated with the subsequent application of the tire sealant (C) to the inside of the tire. Appropriate method steps are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Sostmann, Martin Welzhofer, Joe Guardalabene, Casper Van De Pol
  • PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE
    Publication number: 20140238573
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire of a radial type of construction is for heavy trucks and has a four-ply belt (3). Each belt ply (7, 8, 9, 10) contains steel cords as reinforcing elements which run parallel to one another in each belt ply. Not only are the angles (?, ?) that the steel cords in the second and third belt plies (8, 9) form with the circumferential direction (A-A) approximately equal, but also the angles (?, ?) that the steel cords in the first and fourth belt plies (7, 10) form with the circumferential direction (A-A) are likewise approximately equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Katie Herta, Joerg Bartke, Dong Zheng
  • Process for modifying natural rubber, and modified natural rubber
    Patent number: 8815978
    Abstract: A process for modifying natural rubber and modified natural rubber with improved processing performance. The process for modifying natural rubber includes at least the following process steps: comminuting the natural rubber in a first process step; blending and purifying the natural rubber in a second process step; further comminuting the natural rubber in a third process step; and, drying the natural rubber in a fourth process step. The modified natural rubber is modified by at least four process steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Sandra Stollberg, Hajo Weinreich
  • SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBERIZING MIXTURE
    Publication number: 20140171556
    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, up to 15 phr of at least one carbon black, 20 to 100 phr of at least one high-dispersibility silica, at least one silane coupling agent and a bonding system. The invention further relates to motor vehicle pneumatic tires comprising the sulfur-crosslinked rubberizing mixture. For improved resistance to cracking and growth of cracks with good adhesion and good mechanical and dynamic properties, the high-dispersibility silica has a CTAB number to ASTM D 3765 of more than 130 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kramer, Carla Recker, Thorsten Torbruegge, Marc Kreye
  • SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBERIZING MIXTURE
    Publication number: 20140171564
    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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Torbruegge, Marc Kreye, Thomas Kramer, Carla Recker
  • PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE
    Publication number: 20140166181
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has a radial carcass, a sulfur-impregnated rubber mixture which contains 70 to 100 phr (parts per weight related to 100 parts per weight of the entire types of rubber in the mixture) of natural rubber, up to 30 phr of at least one polybutadiene, up to 15 phr of at least one soot, 20 to 100 phr of at least one silica, at least one silane coupling agent and one adhesive system. In order to lengthen the service life of the pneumatic vehicle tire, the rubber mixture is the carcass rubber coating and the silica has a CTAB number according to ASTM D 3765 of more than 100 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Carla Recker, Marc Kreye, Thomas Kramer, Thorsten Torbruegge
  • TREAD PROFILE OF A PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE FOR UTILITY VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20140116588
    Abstract: A tread profile has a tread profile section which is in the center of the tire in the axial direction, and in each case one shoulder profile section. The central tread profile section is composed of profile belts, and the shoulder profile sections each have a second profile belt. A circumferential groove is arranged in each case between a first profile belt of the central section and the profile belt of the shoulder section. The groove is formed with a web which is radially raised from the groove base and which divides the groove into a narrow first and a wider second section which has, at the groove base, a linear section of extent which merges, with a curvature radius R3 and R2, with the edges of the profile belt or of the web, wherein R3>R2. The linear section of extent is at an angle of inclination >0°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Volkmar Fries, Michael Lehn, Alexander Rediger
  • PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE
    Publication number: 20140110027
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire for commercial vehicles is provided wherein the wet traction properties are improved with simultaneously good rolling resistance properties. At least 120 transverse grooves are arranged in each of the central profile ribs over the entire circumference of the tire. The width (B1) of the transverse grooves in the central profile ribs is maximally 1.5 mm at a distance of 3.5 mm from the profile surface, and the width of each inner circumferential groove is maximally 4 mm at a distance of 3.5 mm from the profile surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Kleffmann, Joerg Bartke, Anastassia Pokutta-Paskaleva
  • PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE
    Publication number: 20140083584
    Abstract: A vehicle pneumatic tire has a two-layer belt and a tread having profile grooves within width TW 45. The maximum depth of the profile grooves varies within TW 45 and the tread has an outer contour defined by reference to rolling radius differences. The maximum depth of the grooves within a center region of TW 45 is the same. The maximum depth of the grooves in the shoulder region is a maximum of 2 mm less than in the center region. The outer contour of the tread in the center region is made flat so that the outer contour radius difference (ArdM) between the zenith and the center region axial end is less than 1 mm, and the outer contour of the tread in the transition region is configured so that the outer contour radius difference (Ards) between the zenith and the transition is 3 mm to 5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Schiller, Daniela Schirra, Kalyan Yalamanchili
  • METHOD FOR MAKING A VEHICLE TIRE
    Publication number: 20140069572
    Abstract: A method for making a vehicle tire includes winding a carcass ply onto a carcass drum, wherein the carcass drum includes a device for setting tire cores and a mechanism for folding the carcass ply over a tire core; finishing the tire carcass; removing the tire carcass from the carcass drum; moving the tire carcass over a cambering drum; carrying out a core clamping with segments of the cambering drum with the tire sidewalls clamped with the tire carcass in the region of the tire bead at the cambering drum via core clamping; moving the carcass transfer unit away from the cambering unit; cambering the tire carcass with the tire sidewalls which are on both sides, wherein the tire sidewalls are turned up laterally on the tire carcass by a turning-up device and the tire carcass is combined with the coaxially arranged belt-tread packet; and, finishing the green tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Gerighausen, Patrick Elsen, Ewald Kneussel, Stefan Linne, Henrik Wende, Claudia Thomfohrde
  • METHOD FOR PROVIDING OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS AND USER INSTRUCTIONS BELONGING TO A TECHNICAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140057604
    Abstract: A method for providing operating instructions and user instructions belonging to a technical device, in which a visualization takes place on a screen of a mobile phone, wherein the operating instructions and user instructions are stored in a remote storage device accessible via the telecommunications device and that the technical device has a character string that can be transmitted to the remote storage device via the telecommunications device, which character string, after the transmission, triggers a remote transmission of the operating instructions and user instructions to the display device of the telecommunications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Timothy KOLANOWSKI
  • Vehicle tire
    Patent number: D707175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Pastuovic, Ralf Krieger
  • Vehicle tire
    Patent number: D708118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Pastuovic, Ralf Krieger
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D709819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Herbst
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D710291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Mosko
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D711308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Matthew J. Lamb
  • Tire
    Patent number: D713783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Tire tread for a vehicle tire
    Patent number: D714716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf, Florian Kristen