Patents Assigned to The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, Inc.
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Patent number: 8403012Abstract: A tread wear indicator may be molded into the shoulder region of a tire tread and may have three symbols. Two of the symbols may be alphanumeric characters and the third symbol may surround the two symbols. All three symbols may be visible prior to wearing the tread. After the tread has been worn a first amount, the first symbol may be invisible and the second and third symbols may be visible to indicate to the user that a new tire will soon be required. After the tread has been worn a second amount, the first and second symbols may be invisible and the third symbol may be visible to indicate to the user that a new tire is required immediately.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.Inventors: Delwyn Lovell Harvey, Crystal Espinoza Sherman
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Patent number: 8322390Abstract: The present invention generally relates to light weight tire devices comprising a plurality of layers of steel belts. The layers are each a predetermined fraction of the footprint width, and the width of each layer can vary from one layer to another. Some embodiments also include a pair of wedge strips disposed between two reinforcing layers. Furthermore, some embodiments can include a split belt, wherein the gap between the split belts is substantially occupied by a gum strip. Additionally, the belt ply cords can be angled according to one or more patterns.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.Inventor: John Kotanides, Jr.
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Patent number: 8056592Abstract: A lightweight truck and passenger vehicle tire having an improved tread design that provides numerous biting edges for increased grip in mud, snow, loose debris, and when climbing rocks as well as providing increased protection from punctures and cuts to the tire's shoulder and upper sidewall regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, Inc.Inventors: Lisa Marie Missik-Gaffney, Brian David Digman, John Fleming Brainerd, II, Timothy Michael Rooney, Jonathan James Shondel
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Patent number: 8056596Abstract: A tire carcass to be used with any type of tire is shown herein. A tire carcass includes a first ply portion, a second ply portion, each ply portion having an inner sidewall ply, an outer sidewall ply, a first end, a second end, and a bead core, a bridge portion, wherein the first ends of the ply portions are separated by the bridge portion, and at least two bridge plies, wherein the bridge plies span the bridge portion, wherein each of the bridge plies have a first end and a second end.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, Inc.Inventors: Robert Anthony Neubauer, Robert Allen Losey, Keith Carl Trares, Joseph Kevin Hubbell, Ping Zhang, Robert Bernard Nelson, Cynthia Nelson, legal representative
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Patent number: 7926533Abstract: A pneumatic tire may use a combination of high modulus and low modulus plies to provide increased fatigue compression durability without significantly increasing the weight of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.Inventor: Roel Domingo Villanueva
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Patent number: 7914270Abstract: A method may include the steps of: (a) providing a tire mold; (b) providing an extruder operatively connected to a head with a die assembly; (c) inserting at least a first compound into the first extruder; (d) forming an extrudate from the die assembly; (e) applying the extrudate directly from the die assembly into the tire mold to form a tire tread component; and, (f) controlling movement of the tire mold to correspond to the extrudate delivery.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.Inventor: Gary Robert Burg
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Patent number: 7788965Abstract: A portable device for measuring friction, especially friction between tire treads and road surfaces is disclosed. The portable friction tester is shaped as an equilateral triangle providing three points of contact for samples in the road surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, Inc.Inventors: William Allen Arnold, Chenghsiung Lin, Christopher Aldrich Brown, Torbjorn Stansen Bergstrom, Douglas Jeffrey Geiger
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Patent number: 7617713Abstract: A wiredrawing machine includes dies and capstans for reduces the cross sectional area of the wire. The machine includes a double die situated at the last capstan to reduce the cross sectional wire one final time in such a way that delamination and central bursting is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, Inc.Inventor: Michael Gregory Zelin