Patents by Inventor Helmut Gaus

Helmut Gaus 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: 9168792
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has peripheral grooves with outer edges on a tread periphery, running peripherally parallel and substantially linearly. A groove base path on a groove base is wavy or zigzags and narrower than a peripheral groove. Projections of groove sides assigned to inward pointing corners of the groove base path are parts or sections of bodies with a base surface having at least four free sides. The base surface runs near the periphery at an angle of at least 60° and is inclined to the radial. The base surface has boundary surfaces running from the free sides toward the groove base at a smaller angle and being inclined to the radial. Two side surfaces run between adjacent projections in peripheral direction, toward the groove base path and have an angle of inclination to the radial larger than the boundary surface angle and smaller than the base surface angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Gaus
  • Publication number: 20100078106
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has peripheral grooves with outer edges on a tread periphery, running peripherally parallel and substantially linearly. A groove base path on a groove base is wavy or zigzags and narrower than a peripheral groove. Projections of groove sides assigned to inward pointing corners of the groove base path are parts or sections of bodies with a base surface having at least four free sides. The base surface runs near the periphery at an angle of at least 60° and is inclined to the radial. The base surface has boundary surfaces running from the free sides toward the groove base at a smaller angle and being inclined to the radial. Two side surfaces run between adjacent projections in peripheral direction, toward the groove base path and have an angle of inclination to the radial larger than the boundary surface angle and smaller than the base surface angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Helmut Gaus
  • Patent number: 5078190
    Abstract: A tire tread of a vehicular tire has, in a peripheral tire direction, a plurality of tread block rows that are separated from one another by wave-shaped longitudinal grooves arranged essentially in the peripheral tire direction. The individual tread blocks within each individual tread block row are separated form one another by transverse grooves, whereby the transverse grooves are arranged such that in a left tread half as well as in a right tread half the transverse grooves are aligned with one another. The groove center lines of the transverse grooves at the outer rims of the tire tread are slanted relative to a tire axis at an angle of 3.degree. to 15.degree.. The groove center lines of the transverse grooves of the center tread block rows are slanted relative to the tire axis at an angle of 15.degree. to 50.degree. whereby the transverse grooves create a design of transversely arranged elongated S-shaped grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Wissbrock, Heinrich Decker, Helmut Gaus, Werner Knauf, Heinrich Huinink, Daniel Pfaff