Patents by Inventor Christian Kaes

Christian Kaes 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: 7789119
    Abstract: A pneumatic runflat tire including at least one sidewall insert, the at least one sidewall insert including a heterogenous rubber compound comprising first rubber and second rubber composition phases, wherein the second rubber phase is further vulcanizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Giorgio Agostini, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Christian Kaes, Marc Weydert, Frank Schmitz, Leon Jean Mathias Gregorius, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Mercedes Maria Diaz-Scharfe
  • Patent number: 7694708
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire including a circumferential tread, two spaced apart beads, and sidewalls connecting said beads and tread, wherein said tire sidewall contains at least one internal annular sidewall insert including at least two annular segments, the at least two annular segments including first and second adjacent annular segments; wherein said first and second annular segments are disposed with an interface therebetween; wherein each of the at least two annular segments includes a rubber composition comprising at least one diene based rubber and at least one vulcanization modifier selected from the group consisting of ?,?-bis(N,N?-dihydrocarbylthiocarbamamoyldithio)alkanes, bismaleimides, and biscitraconimides; and wherein the concentration of vulcanization modifier in the first annular segment is less than the concentration of vulcanization modifier in the second annular segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Giorgio Agostini, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Christian Kaes, Marc Weydert, Frank Schmitz, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Mercedes Maria Diaz-Scharfe
  • Patent number: 7629409
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a rubber component including (A) 100 parts by weight (phr) of a rubber containing olefinic unsaturation; (B) from 50 to 100 phr of silica; (C) from 1 to 40 phr of a polyoctenamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Carlo Kanz, Christian Kaes, Uwe Ernst Frank
  • Patent number: 7441572
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, expressed as parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), (A) 60 to 95 phr of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber with a bound styrene content of from 35 to 45 percent by weight, a vinyl 1,2 content of from 15 to 30 percent by weight based on the butadiene content, and a Tg of from about ?40° C. to about ?20° C.; (B) 5 to 40 phr of cis-1,4 polybutadiene having a Tg of from ?95° C. to ?105° C. (C) 50 to 150 phr of silica; (D) 30 to 70 phr of processing oil; and (E) 0.5 to 20 phr of a sulfur containing organosilicon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Christian Kaes
  • Publication number: 20080178981
    Abstract: A pneumatic runflat tire including at least one sidewall insert, the at least one sidewall insert including a heterogenous rubber compound comprising first rubber and second rubber composition phases, wherein the second rubber phase is further vulcanizable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Giorgio Agostini, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Christian Kaes, Marc Weydert, Frank Schmitz, Leon Jean Mathias Gregorius
  • Publication number: 20080083479
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire including a circumferential tread, two spaced apart beads, and sidewalls connecting said beads and tread, wherein said tire sidewall contains at least one internal annular sidewall insert including at least two annular segments, the at least two annular segments including first and second adjacent annular segments; wherein said first and second annular segments are disposed with an interface therebetween; wherein each of the at least two annular segments includes a rubber composition comprising at least one diene based rubber and at least one vulcanization modifier selected from the group consisting of ?,?-bis(N,N?-dihydrocarbylthiocarbamamoyldithio)alkanes, bismaleimides, and biscitraconimides; and wherein the concentration of vulcanization modifier in the first annular segment is less than the concentration of vulcanization modifier in the second annular segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Giorgio Agostini, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Christian Kaes, Marc Weydert, Frank Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20080076867
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a rubber component including (A) 100 parts by weight (phr) of a rubber containing olefinic unsaturation; (B) from 50 to 100 phr of silica; (C) from 1 to 40 phr of a polyoctenamer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Carlo Kanz, Christian Kaes, Uwe Ernst Frank
  • Patent number: 7096903
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a component comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), (A) from about 35 to about 65 phr of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber with a styrene content of from about 38 to about 50 percent by weight and a Tg of from about ?22° C. to about ?10° C.; (B) from about 10 to about 35 phr of an emulsion or solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber with a styrene content of from about 20 to about 40 percent by weight and a Tg of from about ?55° C. to about ?28° C.; (C) from about 10 to about 35 phr of polybutadiene; and (D) from about 10 to about 100 phr of silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Christian Kaes
  • Publication number: 20060060285
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, expressed as parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), (A) 60 to 95 phr of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber with a bound styrene content of from 35 to 45 percent by weight, a vinyl 1,2 content of from 15 to 30 percent by weight based on the butadiene content, and a Tg of from about ?40° C. to about ?20° C.; (B) 5 to 40 phr of cis-1,4 polybutadiene having a Tg of from ?95° C. to ?105° C. (C) 50 to 150 phr of silica; (D) 30 to 70 phr of processing oil; and (E) 0.5 to 20 phr of a sulfur containing organosilicon compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Christian Kaes
  • Publication number: 20040261927
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a component comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr),
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Christian Kaes
  • Patent number: 6716925
    Abstract: A tire with a rubber containing component compound of, based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of rubber, (A) from 10 to 90 phr of a terpolymer rubber having pendant hydroxyl groups; and (B) from 10 to 90 phr of a rubber containing a nitrile moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Stephan Franz Westermann, Claude Charles Jacoby, Christian Kaes
  • Publication number: 20030125468
    Abstract: A tire with a rubber containing component compound of, based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of rubber,
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Stephan Franz Westermann, Claude Charles Jacoby, Christian Kaes
  • Patent number: 6245860
    Abstract: A rubber composition which contains substantially hollow, irregularly-shaped particles, and/or fragments thereof derived from a surface-modified carbon black aggregate from the which the carbon black core has been removed. For example, an irregularly-shaped carbon black aggregate may be surface-modified to have interconnecting domains of at least one inorganic material on its surface and the carbon black core removed by an oxidation process leaving an irregularly-shaped, substantially hollow particle and/or fragments thereof of said inorganic materials. An article having a component of such rubber composition is also provided such as, for example, a tire or an industrial product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Thierry Florent Edmé Materne, Christian Kaes, Giorgio Agostini, Uwe Ernst Frank, Friedrich Visel