Patents by Inventor Franz Diensthuber

Franz Diensthuber 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).

  • Publication number: 20150306916
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire is for use in winter driving conditions and defines an axial direction (aR) and a circumferential direction (uR). The pneumatic vehicle tire includes a tread having a plurality of profile blocks. The profile blocks have sipes. The tread has two axially outwardly arranged shoulder regions and further has a central tread region arranged between the two shoulder regions. The profile blocks each have two profile block edges. The profile blocks each have a surface defining a plurality of grooves therein. The grooves are arranged in parallel and extend from one of the two profile block edges to the other one of the two profile block edges. The grooves are arranged approximately in the axial direction (aR) in the central tread region and approximately in the circumferential direction (uR) in the shoulder regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Jan Schlittenhard, Christian Brandau
  • Patent number: 6659146
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle tire (1) for driving conditions as they occur during the winter months, parallel incisions are provided with staggers that are placed such that a smaller distance between adjacent incisions arises in the central region of the pad than in the marginal region of the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helge Dörrie, Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: 6619352
    Abstract: Tread profile of a snow tire for a vehicle in which at least two vehicle wheels are rotatably mountable outside of a longitudinal vehicle axis. The tread profile includes a plurality of profile block rows aligned in a circumferential direction and distributed in an axial direction from a first tire shoulder adapted to be positioned toward an outside of the vehicle in an operational state of the tire on the vehicle to a second tire shoulder adapted to be positioned toward an inside of the vehicle in an operational state of the tire on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Wolfgang Peschel
  • Publication number: 20020069949
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle tire (1) for driving conditions as they occur during the winter months, parallel incisions are provided with staggers that are placed such that a smaller distance between adjacent incisions arises in the central region of the pad than in the marginal region of the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Helge Dorrie, Franz Diensthuber
  • Publication number: 20010035244
    Abstract: Tread profile of a snow tire for a vehicle in which at least two vehicle wheels are rotatably mountable outside of a longitudinal vehicle axis. The tread profile includes a plurality of profile block rows aligned in a circumferential direction and distributed in an axial direction from a first tire shoulder adapted to be positioned toward an outside of the vehicle in an operational state of the tire on the vehicle to a second tire shoulder adapted to be positioned toward an inside of the vehicle in an operational state of the tire on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: FRANZ DIENSTHUBER, WOLFGANG PESCHEL
  • Patent number: 6026875
    Abstract: Vehicle tire and a metal sheet mold plate for forming the vehicle tire having at least one axial end section includes a tread that includes sipes running substantially axially in at least one of the axial end sections when viewed from the top (i.e., perpendicular to the tread surface). The sipes are corrugated to form corrugated ridges and valleys that are substantially straight lines diagonally inclined in an oblique plane parallel to the substantially axially running sipes. The substantially axially running sipes may include a first set of sipes and a second set of sipes. The corrugated ridges and valleys of the first set of sipes are oriented, with regard to a radially outward direction, to extend axially inwardly toward (i.e., toward a axial center of the tire). Conversely, the corrugated ridges and valleys of the second set of sipes are oriented, with regard to the radially outward direction, to extend axially outwardly (i.e., away from the axial center of the tire).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Christian Haigerer, Reinhard Mundl, Helmut Rodewald
  • Patent number: 5660651
    Abstract: Pneumatic tire. The invention pertains to a vehicle tire for use in winter driving conditions whose tread pattern includes a circumferentially extending row in each of the shoulder regions, wherein the profile or pattern is asymmetrically shaped and includes, relative to the vehicle, an inner tread portion and an outer tread portion, with the shoulder block row of the inner tread portion being provided with sipes having good opening characteristics, with reference to the circumferential direction of the tire, and the shoulder block row of the outer tread portion is provided with sipes that assure high block rigidity during lateral force loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Semperit Reifen AG
    Inventor: Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D289027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Semperit Reifen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D566040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Martin Venneboerger
  • Patent number: D490769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Jan Schlittenhard
  • Patent number: D593932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan Wildenhain, Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D597929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Mathias Seng, Martin Venneboerger
  • Patent number: D318445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Semperit Reifen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D320180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Semperit Reifen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D342469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Semperit Reifen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D355876
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Semperit Reifen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D637547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Schlittenhard, Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D716720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Seng, Franz Diensthuber
  • Patent number: D725585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Brandau, Franz Diensthuber, Jan Schlittenhard
  • Patent number: D806000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Diensthuber, Jürgen Brockmann