Patents Assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Companies
  • Assessment of tire condition based on a tire health parameter
    Patent number: 9376118
    Abstract: A method and system monitor a plurality of operating parameters for a tire over time during usage of the tire as the tire is exposed to actual operating conditions. The system and method may also determine a tire health parameter for the tire that provides an indication of the condition of the tire based upon the data collected for the tire over time during usage of the tire. The plurality of operating parameters includes, in the least, a temperature associated with the tire during usage of the tire and a duration of usage of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Thomas Sherwood Fleischman, Susan Marie Spaeth, Su Xu
  • Self-inflating tire and pressure regulator
    Patent number: 9365084
    Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to a regulator device. The regulator device regulates the inlet air flow to the air tube and the outlet air flow to the tire cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque
  • Vehicle weight and center of gravity estimation system and method
    Patent number: 9358846
    Abstract: A load estimation system and method for estimating vehicle load includes a tire rotation counter for generating a rotation count from rotation of a tire; apparatus for measuring distance travelled by the vehicle; an effective radius calculator for calculating effective radius of the tire from the distance travelled and the rotation count; and a load estimation calculator for calculating the load carried by the vehicle tire from the effective radius of the tire. A center of gravity height estimation may be made from an estimated total load carried by the tires supporting the vehicle pursuant to an estimation of effective radius for each tire and a calculated load carried by each tire from respective effective radii.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Kanwar Bharat Singh, John Michael Fenkanyn, Amrita Patel, Peter Jung-min Suh, Arthur Allen Goldstein
  • Compositions and methods of PGL for the increased production of isoprene
    Patent number: 9353375
    Abstract: Provided herein are improved compositions and methods for the increased production of isoprene. Also provided herein are improved compositions and methods for the increased production of heterologous polypeptides capable of biological activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: DANISCO US INC., THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventors: Zachary Q. Beck, Marguerite A. Cervin, Alex T. Nielsen, Caroline M. Peres
  • Pneumatic tire with multi-tread cap
    Patent number: 9352615
    Abstract: A tread for a pneumatic tire in accordance with the present invention includes a tread base layer, a first tread cap layer radially outside of the tread base layer, a second tread cap layer radially outside of the tread base layer and both radially outside and axially adjacent the first tread cap layer, a third intermediate layer radially between the tread base layer and the first and second tread cap layers. The first tread cap layer has a protrusion extending radially inward and into the third intermediate layer more than a main body of the first tread cap layer and the second tread cap layer thereby allowing the first tread cap layer to provide the overall tread with enhanced performance characteristics after the main body of the first tread cap layer and the second tread cap layer have worn away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Malik Djelloul-Mazouz, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Julien Dominique Gilbert Majerus, Olivier Francis Bindner, Bruno Pierre Maitre
  • Reduced weight aircraft tire
    Patent number: 9346321
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure wherein the belt reinforcing structure is a composite belt structure having at least one radially inner spiral layer and at least one zigzag belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of said spiral layer. The zigzag belt width is preferably narrower than the spiral layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Ueyoko
  • Distributed cavity air pumping assembly and method for a tire
    Patent number: 9340076
    Abstract: A tire assembly and method includes one or more elongate air passageway formed within a tire component, such as a tire sidewall. The air passageway is configured as a series or string of elongate cavities, adjacent cavities connected end to end by an elongate connecting channel. The connecting channel is dimensioned having a channel diametric size smaller than a cavity diametric size. Positioned within the tire component, the air passageway sequentially collapses segment by segment as each of the cavities pass sequentially over a rolling tire footprint. Air is pumped by the sequential air passageway collapse with the smaller dimensioned connecting channel(s) acting as valve components to directionally keep the pumped air moving between an air passageway air inlet and an air passageway air outlet and from there into the tire cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Pit Baptiste Jean Scharle, Frank Pierre Severens
  • Intelligent tire-based road friction estimation system and method
    Patent number: 9340211
    Abstract: A road friction estimation system and method includes tire-affixed sensors and on-board vehicle sensors, a model-based tire force estimator operable generating from sensor-input a model-derived tire force estimation, a vehicle observer generating an observer-derived tire force estimation and a friction estimator generating a road friction estimation from a comparison of the model-derived tire force estimation and the observer-derived tire force estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Kanwar Bharat Singh
  • Tire
    Patent number: D756293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Peter Johann Cornelius Maus, Eric Michel Paul Muller, Didier Winkin
  • Tire
    Patent number: D756295
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Matthieu Pingenat, Christian André Louis Duchêne, Ananth Bhagavathapuram Srisailapathy, Bingshan Han, Alexander Ossipov, Serge Guillaume Feltes
  • Tire
    Patent number: D756894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Frédéric Michel-Jean Pons, Stéphane Houchard, Johan Peter Dahlberg
  • Tire
    Patent number: D756895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Frédéric Michel-Jean Pons, Stéphane Houchard, Johan Peter Dahlberg
  • Tire
    Patent number: D756896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte, Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Stephane Houchard, Carine Yvonne Jeanne Wagner, Marc Hoffmann
  • Shoulder tread for a tire
    Patent number: D757643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Richard Mark Wieland
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D757644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Mark Wieland, Jonathan James Shondel
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D758295
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Takuya Oji
  • Tire
    Patent number: D758956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Philippe Joseph Auguste Muller, Marc Becker, Albert Maurice Pol Ghislain Lerusse
  • Tire
    Patent number: D758959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean-Julien Edouard Ghislain Krier, Georges Gaston Feider, Bernard D'Hamers, Olivier Louis Marcel Pilandon
  • Tire
    Patent number: D759583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean-Julien Edouard Ghislain Krier, Georges Gaston Feider
  • Tire
    Patent number: D760155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Matthieu Pingenat, Brian Rene Bourel, Pascale de Briey-Terlinden, William Urbano Villamizar