Patents by Inventor Anthony Curtis Paonessa

Anthony Curtis Paonessa 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).

  • Runflat tire with tread stiffening member
    Patent number: 6439283
    Abstract: A runflat pneumatic tire has a tread stiffening member radially inward of the tread 12. The tire has a deflected section height H30 under load at 30 psi inflation and a deflected section height H0 at 0 psi wherein the deflection D30 are equal to or less than D0−D30 and the net contact area at 0 psi has a perimeter dynamic contact shape of at least U shaped or rectangular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony Curtis Paonessa, Mark Henry Seloover, Steven Craig Roweder, Walter Dale Allen, John Janes Beck, Jr.
  • Tire with bead filler runflat inserts
    Patent number: 6135181
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (10) has a pair of sidewall portions (20), a pair of bead regions (22) and a carcass (30) reinforced with at least two sidewall fillers or inserts (42), (46) for each sidewall portion and at least one cord reinforced ply (38) and two bead cores (26) one in each bead region and a reinforcing belt structure (36). This tire is preferably a runflat radial ply tire. The at least one cord reinforced ply (38) has a pair of turnup ends (32) wrapped around the pair of bead cores (26). The turnup ends (32) each extend radially outwardly to a terminal end (33) at a radial height of at least 40% of the tire section height (SH). The first insert for each sidewall portion lies radially inward and adjacent the at least one ply (38). The second insert (46) for each sidewall portion is a bead filler insert radially above the bead core (26) and between the at least one ply (38) and its turnup end (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony Curtis Paonessa, Mark Henry Seloover, John Janes Beck, Jr., Thomas Reed Oare, Joseph Ghana Dancy
  • Tire with carcass turn up ends under belt structure
    Patent number: 5871602
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 10 has a pair of sidewall portions 20, a pair of bead regions 22 and a carcass 30 reinforced with at least two sidewall fillers or inserts 42, 46 for each sidewall portion and at least one cord reinforced ply 38 and two bead cores 26 one in each bead region and a reinforcing belt structure 36. This tire is preferably a runflat radial ply tire. The at least one cord reinforced ply 38 has a pair of turnup ends 32 wrapped around the pair of bead cores 26. The turnup ends 32 each extend radially outwardly to a terminal end 33 located under the reinforcing belt structure 36. The first insert 42 for each sidewall portion lies radially inward and adjacent the at least one ply 38. The second insert 46 for each sidewall portion is radially between the at least one ply 38 and its turnup end 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony Curtis Paonessa, Mark Henry Seloover, John Janes Beck, Jr., Thomas Reed Oare, Joseph Ghana Dancy