Patents Examined by Adrienne C. Johnstone
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Patent number: 12377682Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass layer, a belt layer radially outward of the carcass layer, and a tread rubber radially outward of the belt layer. The belt layer is formed by laminating a large angle belt having a belt-cord angle of 45°-70°, a pair of cross belts having belt cord angles of 10°-45° with opposite sign belt cord angles, and a reinforcing layer having a belt cord angle satisfying ±5° relative to a circumferential direction. A reinforcing layer width Ws and a carcass cross-sectional width Wca satisfy 0.60?Ws/Wca?0.70. A wider cross belt width Wb2 of the pair of cross belts and the carcass width Wca satisfy 0.79?Wb2/Wca?0.89. Relationships 0.79?Wb2/Wca?0.84 and either 0.82?TW/Wca?0.92 or 0.79?TW/SW?0.89 are satisfied, where TW is a tread width and SW is a total tire width.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Hamanaka
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Tire comprising a single carcass ply with reduced deformation depth in the sidewall after running in
Patent number: 12365203Abstract: A tire (10) comprises a crown (12) comprising a tread (20), a crown reinforcement (14), two sidewalls (22), two beads (24), with each sidewall (22) connecting each bead (24) to the crown (12), the crown reinforcement (14) extending into the crown (12). The tire (10) comprises a radial carcass reinforcement (32) anchored in each of the beads (24) and extending into the sidewalls (22), and the crown reinforcement (14) is radially inserted between the carcass reinforcement (32) and the tread (20). The tire (10) has a sidewall height that is greater than or equal to 110 mm and a load index that is greater than or equal to 94. The carcass reinforcement (32) comprises a single carcass ply (34) comprising at least one reinforcer element comprising an assembly formed by: a multifilament strand made of aromatic polyamide or aromatic co-polyamide; and a multifilament strand made of polyester.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Sylvie Duchemin, Nizar Didane -
Patent number: 12337620Abstract: An aircraft tire has a pair of bead sections, sidewall sections extending from outer side in a radial direction of the bead sections, and a tread section extending between the sidewall sections; the aircraft tire includes an RFID tag having a tag main body (IC chip) configured to store an information about the aircraft tire and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein, when a diameter size of the aircraft tire is 15 inches or less, in a tread surface view, the antenna is disposed such that the antenna is parallel to a tire circumferential direction or intersects the tire circumferential direction within a predetermined angle range, and a belt part disposed in the tread section is made of non-metal material.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Muramatsu, Toshihiko Iwasaki
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Patent number: 12291060Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions embedded with bead cores, and a carcass. The carcass includes a turned up ply including a main body portion extending between the bead cores, and a pair of turned up portions turned up around the bead cores from axially inside to outside. Each bead portion is provided with an inner apex rubber extending radially outward from the bead core between the main body portion and the turned up portion and an outer apex rubber arranged axially outside the turned up portion. The inner apex rubber has a radial height of from 18 to 30 mm. A buttress thickness D, a maximum width thickness E, and a bead thickness F satisfy expressions E?4.5 mm, F?9.0 mm, E/D=0.6 to 0.9, and F/E=1.7 to 2.2.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Masahiro Yao
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Patent number: 12280621Abstract: A tire comprising a continuous channel defined by spaced apart sidewalls coupled at a first end to a bridging member and at a second end to a contact member that is coupled to a disc contact portion, said tire being formed by rotational molding of a polyurethane and configured for mounting on a wheel rim.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Superior Tire and Rubber Corp.Inventors: Kyle Robert Knotowicz, Joseph J. Peterson
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Patent number: 12246565Abstract: The invention relates to a tyre (10) comprising a hooping ply (19) comprising at least one textile wire-like hoop reinforcer element making an angle strictly less than 10° with the circumferential direction (Z) of the tyre (10). The bonded textile wire-like reinforcer element has, before the step of production of the hooping ply (19), a tangent modulus less than or equal to 5 cN/tex/% for any elongation less than or equal to 3%. The textile wire-like hoop reinforcer element has, once extracted from the tyre (10), a tangent modulus greater than or equal to 5 cN/tex/% for any elongation greater than or equal to 4%.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Sabrina Rih, Richard Cornille, Herve Ferigo
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Patent number: 12227038Abstract: Pneumatic tyre having a toroidal carcass, which has a body ply that is partially folded onto itself and therefore having two lateral flaps; two annular beads, each of which is surrounded by the body ply and has a bead core and a bead filler; an annular tread; a pair of sidewalls; a pair of abrasion gum strips; an innerliner which is impermeable to air and is arranged within the body ply; and a transponder which is arranged between the body ply and the innerliner at a flap of the body ply and is arranged at a distance of less than 7 mm from an edge of the body ply.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Bridgestone Europe NV/SAInventors: Marco Pedrinelli, Emiliano Sabetti, Mauro Mirabile, Emanuele Rosa, Robin Arends, Cristiano Pomposini
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Patent number: 12214629Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. A band-like sound absorptive member is fixed to the inner surface of a tread portion along the tire circumferential direction. An end portion in the tire width direction of the sound absorptive member is located on the outer side in the tire width direction with respect to a shoulder main groove located on the outermost side in the tire width direction. A width W1 of the sound absorptive member in the tire width direction and a tread development width TDW of the tread portion satisfy a relationship of 0.65?(W1/TDW)?0.90. The width W1 of the sound absorptive member and a belt width W2 of a first belt ply having the maximum width of a belt layer satisfy a relationship of 0.70?(W1/W2)?0.95.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Nagahashi, Noriyoshi Koyama
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Patent number: 12214628Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a run-flat reinforcing layer disposed on an inner side in a width direction of a carcass layer, and a second filler disposed between a turned back portion of the carcass layer and a rim cushion rubber. Additionally, a point on a tire outer circumferential surface is defined, the point is located at a position corresponding to 150% of a rim flange height from a measurement point of a rim diameter of a specified rim, a perpendicular line is defined, and the perpendicular line is drawn from the point to a tire inner circumferential surface. A rubber gauge (G1) of the run-flat reinforcing layer on the perpendicular line, and a rubber gauge (G2) of a region from the turned back portion of the carcass layer to a tire outer surface have the relationship 0<G1/G2?0.65.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventor: Saiko Uchizawa
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Patent number: 12151524Abstract: A motorcycle tire that includes a carcass as a skeleton composed of at least one carcass ply extending toroidally between a pair of bead portions and folded and engaged around a pair of bead cores embedded in each of the pair of bead portions and a belt composed of at least one belt layer arranged on the outer side of the carcass in the tire radial direction. A flipper is arranged between the carcass and a bead core, which wraps the bead core from the inside in the tire radial direction, and the outer side end portion of the flipper in the tire width direction extends to the inside in the tire width direction from the end portion of the belt in the tire width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuyuki Matsuda
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Patent number: 12134239Abstract: The present invention is directed to a plug for sealing a puncture in a tyre, whereby the plug comprises a head portion and a tail portion, the head portion comprising: a porous material that comprises open pores and capable of absorbing >0.02 grams of water per gram of porous material; and an accelerant selected from the group consisting of a salt, a polar solvent, an acid, and any combinations thereof, wherein the accelerant is retained in the pores of the porous material and is configured to react on contact with a curable sealant selected from the group consisting of anionic stabilized sealants, steric stabilized sealants and anionic colloidal dispersions thereby reducing curing time of the sealant, and wherein the porous material does not comprise the sealant.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Tyre Tuft Pty LtdInventor: Owen Matthews
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Patent number: 12109855Abstract: A multi air chamber tire 1 includes a partition wall 30 configured to define and form a plurality of air chambers 20 disposed adjacent to each other in an inner cavity of a tire, and a ventilation member 10 provided to the partition wall 30, and configured to connect the plurality of air chambers 20 in a state where ventilation is allowed. The ventilation member 10 allows ventilation between the plurality of air chambers 20 when a predetermined condition is satisfied indicating that fluid is being injected into at least one of the plurality of air chambers 20 from outside of the tire, and the ventilation member 10 shuts off the ventilation between the plurality of air chambers 20 when the predetermined condition is not satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Shogo Wada
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Patent number: 12109846Abstract: A tire comprises a crown zone comprising a crown reinforcement surmounted radially on the outside by a tread formed from at least one material that is not a conductor of electricity, the crown reinforcement comprising a plurality of layers superposed on one another, each layer of the crown reinforcement comprising two ends in the circumferential direction, these two ends being joined together in an abutment region, the tread comprising a weld region circumferentially offset by an angle of 180 degrees with respect to the region at which the radially outermost layer of the crown reinforcement is superposed. The tire comprises at least one conducting strip positioned between the tread and the crown reinforcement and located circumferentially as to be positioned at equal angular distances between the tread weld region and the region at which the radially outermost reinforcing layer is butted together, these two regions being diametrically opposite.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventor: Stéphanie Cambon
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Patent number: 12103337Abstract: One aspect of the tire of the present invention is a tire including a tread portion (11), a sidewall portion (12), a bead portion (13), a bead core (60) provided in the bead portion (13), and a carcass ply (51) covering at least a portion around the bead core (60), in which the carcass ply (51) includes a sewn portion (80) in which a conductive thread (81, 82) is sewn.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyuki Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 12083833Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles of the present disclosure includes a carcass toroidally spanning between a pair of bead portions and including plies of radially arranged cords. A sectional width SW (mm) and an outer diameter OD (mm) of the tire satisfy a predetermined relational expression. At least one noise reducer is provided on an inner surface of the tire. The noise reducer is provided at least in the center region and the shoulder region. Among thicknesses of the noise reducer measured in a direction perpendicular to the inner surface of the tire, a maximum thickness Ts in the shoulder regions is larger than a maximum thickness Tc in the center region.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Isao Kuwayama
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Patent number: 12011957Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead cores, a carcass layer, a pair of first bead apex rubber components, and a belt layer disposed outward of the carcass layer. In an unloaded condition where the tire is mounted onto a standard rim and inflated with an internal pressure at 50 kPa, the carcass layer has a profile that includes an outer side portion extending from a position (A) where the carcass layer separates from the belt layer to a maximum width position (B) of the carcass layer, and the pair of outer side portion is located outside a virtual arc (C0) having a single radius (R0) of curvature passing through the position (A), the maximum width position (B), and an outermost ends in the tire radial direction of one of the pair of first bead apex rubber components.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Tetsuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11999203Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tyre of radial type of construction, having a tread (1), having a carcass inlay (3), having electrically nonconductive sidewalls (7) and having at least one electrically conductive component (8) or element in a bead region, which component or element, in the case of a tyre mounted on a wheel rim, comes into contact with said wheel rim, wherein either the tread (1) is electrically conductive or, in the tread region, at least one electrically conductive component (10) is provided which is overlapped on the outside by the sidewalls (7) and which is connected in electrically conductive fashion to the tread outer surface, and wherein filaments provided with an electrically conductive coating are incorporated at least in a sidewall region, the coating of which filaments forms electrically conductive passages between the tread (1) or the component (10) and the at least one electrically conductive component (8) or element in the bead region.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Norbert Kendziorra, Christian Weber
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Patent number: 11970030Abstract: A multi air chamber tire 1 includes a tread portion 4, a pair of bead portions 2, a pair of sidewall portions 3, and partition walls 30 respectively provided to half portions of a tire which are defined with respect to a tire equator plane, the partition walls 30 partitioning an inner cavity of the tire to form a plurality of air chambers disposed adjacent to each other. Each of the partition walls 30 includes a first coupling portion 9a and a second coupling portion 9b coupled with a tire inner wall surface. When the tire 1 is filled with fluid, a first air chamber 20 is formed in a space inward of the partition walls 30 in a tire width direction, and a second air chamber 21 is formed in each space between a partition wall 30 and the tire inner wall surface of a sidewall portion 3.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Shogo Wada
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Patent number: 11964517Abstract: A tire 12 includes: a tread surface 34; seat contact surfaces 58 each to be in contact with a seat S of a rim R; and side surfaces 60 extending on and between the tread surface 34 and the seat contact surfaces 58. Each side surface 60 includes a flange contact surface 62 to be in contact with a flange F of the rim R, and a flange opposed surface 64 which is located radially outward of the flange contact surface 62 and is to be opposed to the flange F. The flange opposed surface 64 is formed to be a surface having a diameter increasing outward in an axial direction. A shape of the flange opposed surface 64 is represented by a circular arc, and a radius of the circular arc is not less than 11.0 mm and not greater than 20.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Higuchi, Kenji Kodama, Kazuma Ujigawa, Kiyotaka Ueyama
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Patent number: 11932059Abstract: A pneumatic tire (1) having: a toroidal carcass (2), which consists of a body ply (3) partially collapsed onto itself and therefore having two lateral flaps; two annular beads (4), each of which is surrounded by the body ply (3) and has a bead core (5) and a bead filler (6); an annular tread (7); a pair of sidewalls (11) arranged externally to the body ply (3) between the tread (7) and the beads (4); a pair of abrasion gum strips (12) arranged externally to the body ply (3) under the sidewalls (13) and at the beads (4); and a transponder (13) which is arranged in contact with the body ply (3) at a flap of the body ply (3) and is located below an edge (19) of the body ply (3) between the edge (19) of the body ply (3) and the bead (4).Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bridgestone Europe NV/SAInventors: Marco Pedrinelli, Emiliano Sabetti, Mauro Mirabile, Emanuele Rosa