Patents Assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Companies
  • Compositions and methods for producing isoprene
    Patent number: 9260727
    Abstract: The invention features methods for producing isoprene from cultured cells. The invention also provides compositions that include these cultured cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: DANISCO US INC., THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventors: Marguerite A. Cervin, Gopal K. Chotani, Frank J. Feher, Richard La Duca, Joseph C. McAuliffe, Andrei Miasnikov, Caroline M. Peres, Aaron S. Puhala, Karl J. Sanford, Fernando Valle, Gregory M. Whited
  • Valve stem-based pressure regulator system for an air maintenance tire and method
    Patent number: 9259981
    Abstract: An air maintenance tire assembly and method of operation includes a pressurized air supply assembly for supplying pressurized air to a tire cavity through an elongate outward projecting, valve stem passageway. An elongate centrally disposed shaft within the valve stem reciprocally moves axially in the valve stem internal air passageway between a passageway-opening axial position and a passageway-closing axial position. A pressure regulator is provided to move the elongate shaft axially between the passageway-opening and passageway-closing positions responsive to a detected air pressure level within the tire cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Michael Joseph Durr
  • Preparation of rubber containing silica and carbon black reinforcement, rubber composition and tire with component
    Patent number: 9260594
    Abstract: The invention relates to preparation of a rubber composition containing silica and carbon black reinforcement, the resultant rubber composition and tire with component comprised of such rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Hans-Bernd Fuchs, Tom Dominique Linster, Léon Jean Mathias Gregorius, Jean-Claude Knepper
  • Torsional mode tire wear state estimation system and method
    Patent number: 9259976
    Abstract: A tire wear state estimation system includes a tire pressure measuring device affixed to a vehicle tire for measuring tire inflation pressure and generating tire inflation pressure data; tire torsional mode measuring means for measuring tire torsional mode frequency and generating tire torsional mode frequency data; and tire identification means for generating tire-specific torsional mode coefficients using tire-specific identification data. A tire wear estimation is made based upon the tire inflation pressure data, the torsional mode frequency data, and the tire identification derived torsional mode coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Kanwar Bharat Singh, Yiu Wah Luk, Anthony William Parsons
  • Tire with outer groove containing bonded tube
    Patent number: 9259975
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a pneumatic rubber tire which contains an outer, annular, circular groove which contains a flexible tube bonded to the walls of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Carolin Anna Welter, Dinesh Chandra, Robert Leon Benedict
  • Motorcycle tire having a hybrid construction
    Patent number: 9254717
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread, two circumferentially extending annular bead regions, a carcass structure, and an overlay ply. The tread is rotatable about an axis and contacts a road surface. The tread further has an equatorial plane intersecting the axis at 90°. The carcass structure extends between the tread and the bead regions. The carcass structure supports the tread about the axis. The carcass structure includes two or more carcass plies having reinforcing cords oriented to cross at opposite angles of 20° to 65° with respect to the equatorial plane. The overlay ply extends circumferentially and extends radially between the carcass structure and the tread. The overlay ply includes cords oriented between ?5° and +5° relative to the equatorial plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Neill Rampton, Thomas Wood Whitney, Carolyn Marie Manning
  • Compositions and methods for producing isoprene free of C5 hydrocarbons under decoupling conditions and/or safe operating ranges
    Patent number: 9249070
    Abstract: The invention features methods for producing isoprene from cultured cells wherein the cells in the stationary phase. The invention also provides compositions that include these cultured cells and/or increased amount of isoprene. The invention also provides for systems that include a nonflammable concentration of isoprene in the gas phase. Additionally, the invention provides isoprene compositions, such as compositions with increased amount of isoprene or increased purity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: DANISCO US INC., THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventors: Anthony R. Calabria, Marguerite A. Cervin, Gopal K. Chotani, Richard La Duca, Joseph C. McAuliffe, Michael C. Miller, Timothy A. Sabo, Karl J. Sanford, Erin L. Spring, Gregory M. Whited
  • Rubber composition and runflat tire
    Patent number: 9243135
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising: a functionalized elastomer comprising a polymeric backbone chain derived from a monomer comprising at least one conjugated diene monomer and optionally at least one vinyl aromatic monomer; and a functional group bonded to the backbone chain, the functional group comprising a multidentate ligand capable of complexing with a metal ion; and an encapsulated metal salt. The invention is further directed to a pneumatic runflat tire comprising a sidewall insert, the insert comprising the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Ralf Mruk, Frank Schmitz, Robert Fokko Roskamp, Christian Jean-Marie Kaes
  • Compact valve system for self-inflating tire
    Patent number: 9242518
    Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air passageway in the tire that is operable to be sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air from a valve device through the passageway to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. The valve device has an internal pressure membrane that regulates the inlet flow of the air to the tube pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque
  • Pneumatic tire with siloxy nitroxide
    Patent number: 9234089
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising at least one component, the at least one component comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition, the vulcanizable rubber composition comprising: at least one diene based elastomer; precipitated silica; and a compound of formula I where R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected alkyl or alkoxy groups containing from 1 through 8 carbon atoms provided that at least one of said groups is an ethoxy group, and alternatively provided that all three of said groups are ethoxy groups, R4 is an alkanediyl group containing from 0 through 8 carbon atoms, Si is silicon, N is nitrogen and O is oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Leena Nebhani
  • Self-inflating tire with inlet control valve
    Patent number: 9233582
    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 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Gauthier Piret, William Alain Talbot, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
  • Tire apparatus
    Patent number: 9233583
    Abstract: A tire support apparatus includes a support plate for receiving a tire includes an optional inflatable inner tube for insertion into the tire cavity, and an upper plate having a hole for receiving a support member, the upper plate further includes a ring having an inner lip that seats against the bead region of the tire and a radially outer surface that seats against the lower sidewall region of the tire T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Michael Joseph Durr, Arun Kumar Byatarayanapura Gopala, Dale Roy Norton
  • Rubber for baby bottle nipples, pacifiers, and syringe plungers
    Patent number: 9226876
    Abstract: The production of a protein free synthetic polyisoprene which has both low levels of chemical impurities and good physical properties has yet to be realized. It has now been envisioned that the use of neodymium catalyzed polyisoprene will offer the combined advantages of both a clean, as well as, high cis-1,4 polymer. Synthesis of polyisoprene rubber using a neodymium based catalyst system is described. Characterization of the material shows the absence of an ultra high molecular weight fraction and the presence of very high cis-1,4-microstructure. Gum stock and black filled compound studies comparing neodymium polyisoprene with natural rubber, titanium polyisoprene, and lithium polyisoprene have been performed. Results indicate that polyisoprene rubber synthesized using a neodymium catalyst system (Nd—PI) has similar stress-strain and tear properties as synthetic titanium polyisoprene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael Lester Kerns, Michael Joseph Rachita
  • Conicity correction for rubber component extrusion
    Patent number: 9227372
    Abstract: A method for correcting the conicity of a tread strip is described. The method includes the steps of extruding a tread profile having a right hand side, a left hand side and a chimney; measuring the thickness of the tread profile at the right hand side and the left hand side; calculating the mass of the tread on the left hand side and the right hand side; and adjusting the location of the chimney incrementally towards the side which is least in mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Warren Paul Ripple
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D746763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Hokuto Kubo
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D746764
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Tire for automobile
    Patent number: D746766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Tire
    Patent number: D747677
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Shannon Joseph Hughes, Paul Bryan Maxwell, Lac An Nguyen
  • Tire for motorcycle
    Patent number: D747679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Takuya Miwa
  • Tire for motorcycle
    Patent number: D747680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Makoto Sueishi