Patents by Inventor Jean-Paul Lambotte

Jean-Paul Lambotte 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).

  • Method of preparing tire with tread of cap/base construction
    Patent number: 6036800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tire with a rubber tread of a cap/base construction wherein the tread cap is designed to be ground-contacting, wherein the tread base underlies said tread cap, is not intended to be ground-contacting, and is a matrix composition composed of at least one elastomer where the matrix composition contains a dispersed micro inclusion made of a particulate, high molecular weight thermoplastic polymer and wherein the tread cap is composed of a blend of elastomers without such micro inclusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Danielle Lucas, Jean-Paul Lambotte
  • Tire with silica reinforced tread
    Patent number: 6022922
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tire with a tread which is reinforced with a quantitative amount of silica, including a silica coupler, where the tread rubbers are of a blend comprised of styrene/isoprene/butadiene terpolymer rubber and cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber or styrene/isoprene/butadiene terpolymer rubber, cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber and isoprene/butadiene copolymer rubber. Optionally, the rubber blend can contain a minor amount of cis 1,4-polyisoprene natural rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean Bergh, Marc Junio, Jean-Claude Joseph Marie Kihn, Tom Dominique Linster, Jean-Paul Lambotte
  • Tire with tread having silica reinforcement field
    Patent number: 5877249
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tire with a tread which is reinforced with carbon black and precipitated silica where the tread rubbers are of a blend comprised of at least one diene-based elastomer and a styrene/alphamethylstyrene resin, as hereinafter described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Lambotte