Patents by Inventor Andreas Topp

Andreas Topp has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6855423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapped cord, to a method of making said wrapped cord, to a method of treating said wrapped cord with an adhesive treatment composition, to the treated wrapped cord obtainable by said method as well as to a reinforced rubber article comprising said treated cord, such as automotive tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignees: Continental AG, Arteva Technologies, S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan, Charles Edward Forbes, Chad D. Fisher, Stephan Fredrick Sherriff, Andreas Topp
  • Patent number: 6821632
    Abstract: In a composite of vulcanizable rubber or rubber-like composition with one or more metal reinforcement elements embedded therein, the metal reinforcement element is coated with a polymer or non-cured rubber composition compatible with and co-polymerizable, co-vulcanizable or crosslinkable with said vulcanizable ruber composition to be reinforced, and additionally bearing functional groups either covalently bonding to the metal surface of said reinforcement element or forming covalent bonds with the outward directed first functional groups of a mono- or multimolecular layer of a bifunctional adhesion promoter intercalated between said metal and said coating and bound to said metal by its second functional groups. A cured rubber or rubber-like product, for instance a pneumatic tire, is obtained by vulcanization of such a composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Topp, Bernd Kaiser, Richard Michalitsch, Francis Garnier, Philippe Lang
  • Patent number: 6591879
    Abstract: A vehicle tire and a method for dissipating heat from a vehicle tire where the tire has sidewalls, an uppermost area over the sidewalls, a bead area and an inner layer, the inner layer being impermeable to air, a rubberized reinforcement-containing carcass, the carcass extending from the uppermost area of the vehicle tire over the sidewalls into the bead area and being anchored in the bead area by looping around bead cores that are resistant to extension, a rubber tread having one or more tread grooves located radially outside, the tread groove having a base and a groove flank, a belt reinforcement with at least one stabilizer belt located between the rubber tread and the carcass, the stabilizer belt containing rubberized reinforcement, a first rubber composition having a first thermal conductivity, and a second rubber composition having a second thermal conductivity at least about 5% greater than the first thermal conductivity of the first rubber composition, the second rubber composition being arranged in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto Beckmann, Helmut Kreuser, Andreas Topp, Axel Becker
  • Publication number: 20030129399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapped cord, to a method of making said wrapped cord, to a method of treating said wrapped cord with an adhesive treatment composition, to the treated wrapped cord obtainable by said method as well as to a reinforced rubber article comprising said treated cord, such as automotive tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan, Charles Edward Forbes, Chad D. Fisher, Stephan Fredrick Sherriff, Andreas Topp
  • Publication number: 20020139465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapped cord, to a method of making said wrapped cord, to a method of treating said wrapped cord with an adhesive treatment composition, to the treated wrapped cord obtainable by said method as well as to a reinforced rubber article comprising said treated cord, such as automotive tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan, Charles Edward Forbes, Chad D. Fisher, Stephan Fredrick Sherriff, Andreas Topp
  • Publication number: 20020061409
    Abstract: In a composite of vulcanizable rubber or rubber-like composition with one or more metal reinforcement elements embedded therein, the metal reinforcement element is coated with a polymer or non-cured rubber composition compatible with and co-polymerizable, co-vulcanizable or crosslinkable with said vulcanizable ruber composition to be reinforced, and additionally bearing functional groups either covalently bonding to the metal surface of said reinforcement element or forming covalent bonds with the outward directed first functional groups of a mono- or multimolecular layer of a bifunctional adhesion promoter intercalated between said metal and said coating and bound to said metal by its second functional groups. A cured rubber or rubber-like product, for instance a pneumatic tire, is obtained by vulcanization of such a composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL
    Inventors: Andreas Topp, Bernd Kaiser, Richard Michalitsch, Francis Garnier, Philippe Lang