Patents by Inventor Krishnakumar Raghu

Krishnakumar Raghu 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: 20190217669
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a profiled tread (1) that consists of an electrically nonconductive rubber material and has a central tread region (3) and, at each of the shoulders, a profile block row (2) having transverse grooves (7) that extend at an angle (?) of 70° to 90° to the circumferential direction, wherein the shoulder-side profile blocks (8) have block corners (8?) toward the tread center, wherein the central tread region (3) is subdivided into a multiplicity of profile blocks (4) and is provided with grooves (5) that extend at angles (?) of at most 60° to the circumferential direction, wherein all of the profile blocks (4, 8) are each provided with a number of sipes (9, 9?), and wherein the tread (1) is passed through in the radial direction by at least one electrically conductive rubber strip (14) extending in the circumferential direction, said rubber strip (14) forming an electrically conductive passage between the substructure of the tire and the tread outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Weber, Matthias Seng, Krishnakumar Raghu