Abstract: Disclosed herein are tires having a tread with improved stiffness made from a rubber composition of specified ingredients including an elastomer component, a resin component including a terpene phenol resin having a specified hydroxyl value and a DCPD-based resin, a filler component including reinforcing silica filler and carbon black, optionally a liquid plasticizer, and a cure package. Also disclosed are methods for improving the stiffness of a tire tread by using a resin component comprising a terpene phenol resin having a specified hydroxyl value and a DCPD-based resin in a rubber composition comprising an elastomer component, a filler component including reinforcing silica filler and carbon black, optionally a liquid plasticizer, and a cure package.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are tires having a tread with improved wet performance and improved stiffness made from a rubber composition of specified ingredients including an elastomer component, a terpene phenol resin having a specified hydroxyl value, a filler component including reinforcing silica filler and carbon black, optionally a liquid plasticizer, and a cure package. Also disclosed are methods for improving the wet performance and stiffness of a tire tread by using a terpene phenol resin having a specified hydroxyl value in a rubber composition comprising an elastomer component, a filler component including reinforcing silica filler and carbon black, optionally a liquid plasticizer, and a cure package.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are tires having a tread having stiffness made from a rubber composition of specified ingredients including an elastomer component, a resin component including a terpene phenol resin having a specified hydroxyl value and a DCPD-based resin, a filler component including reinforcing silica filler and carbon black, optionally a liquid plasticizer, and a cure package. Also disclosed are methods for stiffness in a tire tread by using a resin component comprising a terpene phenol resin having a specified hydroxyl value and a DCPD-based resin in a rubber composition comprising an elastomer component, a filler component including reinforcing silica filler and carbon black, optionally a liquid plasticizer, and a cure package.

Abstract: An endotracheal tube holder providing enhanced patient comfort and easy and secure attachment of various sized tubes. The holder includes a multi-component plastic clamping device having an inner bite block and straps for maintaining the device in position. The device further includes a support member with a barrel, and a cylinder movable within the barrel, and complimentary bores through the barrel and cylinder which release the tube when the bores are aligned and clamp down on the tube when the bores are in various unaligned positions.

Abstract: An integrated attitude director indicator and horizontal situation indicator is disclosed that utilizes stereopsis to combine information that normally requires two display surfaces onto a single electronic display. One embodiment of the display comprises left and right eye versions alternately presented on the display in synchronism with alternate eye shuttered lenses worn by the viewer. The viewer has an instantaneous sense of the real world direction from his aircraft as apparently suspended within a spherical grid. The integrated display provides a presentation somewhat similar to existing flat screen separate instruments with an aircraft symbol lying at the center of the sphere with roll, pitch and heading scales displayed on this sphere. The sphere itself has one color such as blue above the horizon line and a different color such as brown below the horizon line.

Abstract: A design and evaluation system is disclosed which enables the computer generation of graphic displays and symbology used in the design of electronic instrument displays. The graphics and symbology may be positioned, rearranged, altered, and replaced with other graphics or symbology representative of that used in the intended instrument. The display may then be dynamically tested in accordance with programmed or selected manual inputs to determine the aesthetic and functional interactions between symbols or groups of symbols and to evaluate their acceptability in their intended environment. The proposed display may be repeatedly updated, altered and modified during testing until a final version has been selected for the instrument display.