Patents by Inventor Keith Eric Grabo

Keith Eric Grabo 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).

  • VEHICLE RIDE EVALUATION
    Publication number: 20120197587
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to vehicle ride evaluation and, more particularly, to a method of information sensing and transformation to assist a vehicle operator to make an informed evaluation for vehicular ride quality and a composite comprised of said vehicle and portable device secured to said vehicle for said information sensing and transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Yiu Wah Luk, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire tread with sipes having tie bars
    Patent number: 7484542
    Abstract: A tire tread has at least three rows of tread elements, each tread element in the at rows has at least one sipe and at least one sipe in each tread element row has a tie bar therein. Each tie bar in the sipes has a volume, and the volume of the sipe tie bar in each tread element in each row is not more than 10% different than the volume of the sipe tie bar in each tread element in any other tread row. Several of the tread rows have transverse grooves having groove tie bars therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Karl Eric Sundkvist, Eddy Dong-Rong Pan, Tooney Raymond Jones, David Allen Griffin, John Russell Shaffer, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Overlay configuration for a tire
    Publication number: 20070144649
    Abstract: A tire comprising a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls wherein the sidewalls are connected to the tread portion by shoulder regions, and wherein the tire further includes one or more strips of rubber affixed to the inner surface of a green tire. The strip may be annular and may be located near the toe of the bead. The strip is made from a rubber composition having a specific gravity greater than 2. The strip may be ground away as desired in order to balance the tire without the need for weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph King, Keith Eric Grabo, Leyla Kristen Renner, Keith Carl Trares, Michael Lee Hiben, Melvin Lee Bostic
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D531108
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Eric John Marazzi, David Charles Poling, Cristina Marie Gschnell, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D531572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Charles Kenneth Schmalix, David Allen Griffin, Keith Eric Grabo, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Eddy Dong-Rong Pan
  • Tire
    Patent number: D581346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jonathan James Shondel, Keith Eric Grabo, Craig David Miller, Paul Bryan Maxwell
  • Tire
    Patent number: D606925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Christian Shavers, Jonathan James Shondel, Bart Wakefield Kimble, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Kelly Sue King, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire
    Patent number: D607812
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Keith Eric Grabo, Casey McCutcheon Brooke, Kevin Michael Masa, Karl Eric Sundkvist
  • Tire
    Patent number: D610962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William Butterworth Allison, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire
    Patent number: D644592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Keith Eric Grabo, Jonathan James Shondel
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D382521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Rudy Espinosa Consolacion, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D384923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Walter Dale Allen, Warren Lee Croyle, Keith Eric Grabo
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D397648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Walter Dale Allen, Keith Eric Grabo, Warren Lee Croyle, Marc Christopher Nowacki, David Ray Hubbell, Jr.
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D400832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Samuel Eubanks Reckley, Joseph Henry Laco, Keith Eric Grabo, William Eugene Glover
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D403281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Walter Dale Allen, Keith Eric Grabo, Warren Lee Croyle, Marc Christopher Nowacki, David Ray Hubbell, Jr.
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D407678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Samuel Eubanks Reckley, Joseph Henry Laco, Keith Eric Grabo, William Eugene Glover
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D415982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Rudy Espinosa Consolacion, Keith Eric Grabo, Kevin Alan Reid