Patents by Inventor Oliver Schürmann
Oliver Schürmann 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).
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Patent number: 11807049Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire (L) having at least one acoustic element (8), wherein the tire (L), fitted on a wheel rim (16), encloses with the rim (16) a space inside the tire (17), wherein the acoustic element (8) comprising a body (12) and a layer (13) is arranged on an inner tire surface (10) involved in delimiting the space inside the tire (17), wherein the body (12) is arranged on the inner tire surface (10) and wherein the layer (13) is arranged on a surface region of the body (12) that is facing the space inside the tire (17). The object is to provide a tire which has improved acoustic properties with less use of porous noise-reducing material and the acoustic element of which is more resistant to pressure changes.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Makram Zebian, Oliver Schuermann, Gueltekin Oezdogan
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Patent number: 11305592Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire of a radial type of construction with a profiled tread (1), sidewalls (3), bead regions (2) and an airtight inner layer (4), which forms the inner side (4a) facing the interior space of the pneumatic vehicle tire, ribs (6) being formed on the inner layer (4), having been imprinted in it by a heating bladder introduced into the interior of the tire during the vulcanizing of the pneumatic vehicle tire in a tire heating mold, and a sound absorber (5) being provided so as to extend in an annular manner on a circumferential region (4b) of the inner side (4a) opposite from the tread (1). Grooves (7) have been formed by the heating bladder at least in a partial region of the circumferential region (4b) of the inner layer (4a) on which the sound absorber (5) is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventor: Oliver Schürmann
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Patent number: 11072210Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire (1) having a profiled tread (2) that merges at either side into sidewalls (3), the end of which is formed by a tire bead (5, 6) insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim (7) of a vehicle wheel (8), wherein an absorber (10) has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) for sound absorption and the cohesive bond consists of an adhesion promoter (11) applied between the absorber (10) and the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1), has been further developed in accordance with the invention in that the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) has mutually alternating adhesion promoter sections (12) and adhesion promoter-free sections (13), the adhesion promoter-free sections (13) having been coated with a separating agent (14).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventor: Oliver Schürmann
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Patent number: 10953704Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire with a material ring (10) inside it, adhesively attached to the inner surface opposite from the tread (1), the material ring (10) adhering to a self-sealing sealant (8), which at least immediately after its application has a tackiness required for the adhesive attachment of the material ring (10). To improve the sealing effect, the material ring (10) arranged on the sealant (8) is closed-cell and airtight.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Oliver Schürmann, Andreas Tyburski
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Patent number: 10787044Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has a structured tread which transitions at both sides into sidewalls the end of which is formed by a tire bead which is insertable in air-tight fashion into a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel equipped with the pneumatic vehicle tire, such that an air cavity filled with compressed air is formed between wheel rim and pneumatic vehicle tire. The pneumatic vehicle tire has, on its inner surface situated opposite the tread, a foamed material layer. The porosity of the foamed material layer amounts to between 70% and 99% of the total volume of the foamed material layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Oliver Schuermann, Andreas Tyburski, Annalena Thiemann
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Publication number: 20200254828Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire with a material ring (10) inside it, adhesively attached to the inner surface opposite from the tread (1), the material ring (10) adhering to a self-sealing sealant (8), which at least immediately after its application has a tackiness required for the adhesive attachment of the material ring (10). To improve the sealing effect, the material ring (10) arranged on the sealant (8) is closed-cell and airtight.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Oliver Schürmann, Andreas Tyburski
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Patent number: 10675922Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a self-sealing sealant arranged in its interior, on the inner surface opposite from the tread, the sealant being highly viscous and the sealant having such a tackiness that it adheres to the inner surface. The inner surface on which the sealant is arranged has regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect, these regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect taking up between 40% and 60% of the inner surface on which the sealant is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Matthias Jacob, Oliver Schuermann
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Patent number: 10618359Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tyre with a sound-absorbing inner absorber (9) adhesively attached in its interior to the inner surface (7) opposite from the tread (1), wherein the inner absorber (9) adheres to an automatically sealing sealant (8), which at least immediately after being applied has the tackiness required for the adhesive attachment. In order not to influence the flow properties of the sealant disadvantageously and in order to ensure a reliable sealing effect of the sealant, a separating layer (10) is arranged between the sealant (8) and the inner absorber (9) and the separating layer (10) is made in such a way as to ensure a sufficient flowability of the sealant (8) for the sealing and a reliable adhesive attachment of the foam ring (9).Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Andreas Tyburski, Oliver Schürmann, Nermeen Nabih
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Publication number: 20200094630Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire (L) having at least one acoustic element (8), wherein the tire (L), fitted on a wheel rim (16), encloses with the rim (16) a space inside the tire (17), wherein the acoustic element (8) comprising a body (12) and a layer (13) is arranged on an inner tire surface (10) involved in delimiting the space inside the tire (17), wherein the body (12) is arranged on the inner tire surface (10) and wherein the layer (13) is arranged on a surface region of the body (12) that is facing the space inside the tire (17). The object is to provide a tire which has improved acoustic properties with less use of porous noise-reducing material and the acoustic element of which is more resistant to pressure changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2017Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Makram Zebian, Oliver Schuermann, Oezdogan Gueltekin
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Patent number: 10471781Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire is provided. The tire includes a tread, an inner surface lying opposite the tread, a self-sealing sealant and a sound-absorbing open-cell foam ring arranged inside the pneumatic vehicle tire. The foam ring is adhesively attached to the inner surface and adheres to the self-sealing sealant which is applied before the sound-absorbing open-cell foam ring is attached to the inner surface. The self-sealing sealant has, at least immediately after being applied, a tackiness required for an adhesive attachment of the sound-absorbing open-cell foam ring. A closed-cell material ring is arranged between the sound-absorbing foam ring and the self-sealing sealant to prevent a diffusion of the sealant into the open-cell foam ring. The closed-cell material ring effects an airtight condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Andreas Tyburski, Oliver Schuermann, Michael Schwarz, Joerg Goener, Joe Guardalabene
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Publication number: 20180290505Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire of a radial type of construction with a profiled tread (1), sidewalls (3), bead regions (2) and an airtight inner layer (4), which forms the inner side (4a) facing the interior space of the pneumatic vehicle tire, ribs (6) being formed on the inner layer (4), having been imprinted in it by a heating bladder introduced into the interior of the tire during the vulcanizing of the pneumatic vehicle tire in a tire heating mold, and a sound absorber (5) being provided so as to extend in an annular manner on a circumferential region (4b) of the inner side (4a) opposite from the tread (1). Grooves (7) have been formed by the heating bladder at least in a partial region of the circumferential region (4b) of the inner layer (4a) on which the sound absorber (5) is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventor: Oliver Schürmann
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Publication number: 20180244114Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire (1) having a profiled tread (2) that merges at either side into sidewalls (3), the end of which is formed by a tire bead (5, 6) insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim (7) of a vehicle wheel (8), wherein an absorber (10) has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) for sound absorption and the cohesive bond consists of an adhesion promoter (11) applied between the absorber (10) and the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1), has been further developed in accordance with the invention in that the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) has mutually alternating adhesion promoter sections (12) and adhesion promoter-free sections (13), the adhesion promoter-free sections (13) having been coated with a separating agent (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventor: Oliver Schürmann
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Publication number: 20180236823Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire (1) having a profiled tread (2) that merges at either side into sidewalls (3, 4), the end of which is formed by a tire bead (5, 6) insertable in an airtight manner into a wheel rim (7) of a vehicle wheel (8), wherein an absorber (10) cohesively bonded to the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) has been integrated into the pneumatic vehicle tire (1) for sound absorption and the cohesive bonding consists of a bonding agent (11) in an arrangement where it is not distributed over the full area between the absorber (10) and the inner surface (9) of the pneumatic vehicle tire (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Oliver Schürmann, Andreas Tyburski, Eduarda Gomes, Tomas Gargulak
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Publication number: 20180141392Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has a structured tread which transitions at both sides into sidewalls the end of which is formed by a tire bead which is insertable in air-tight fashion into a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel equipped with the pneumatic vehicle tire, such that an air cavity filled with compressed air is formed between wheel rim and pneumatic vehicle tire. The pneumatic vehicle tire has, on its inner surface situated opposite the tread, a foamed material layer. The porosity of the foamed material layer amounts to between 70% and 99% of the total volume of the foamed material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Oliver Schuermann, Andreas Tyburski, Annalena Thiemann
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Publication number: 20180126804Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire having a sound absorber composed of foam which is adhesively attached, in the interior of the tire, to the inner surface situated opposite the tread, wherein the sound absorber adheres to a previously applied, self-sealing sealant which, at least immediately after its application, has a tackiness required for the adhesive attachment of the sound absorber. The sound absorber is made up of a multiplicity of individual geometric sound absorber bodies which are not connected to one another, in that each of the geometric sound absorber bodies adheres to the sealant, and in that each of the geometric sound absorber bodies has a diameter of 1 mm to 50 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Matthias Jacob, Oliver Schuermann
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Publication number: 20180126803Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic vehicle tire which includes a foam sound absorber in its interior, adhesively attached to the inner surface opposite from the tread and extending in an annular manner over the circumference of the tire. The sound absorber adheres to a previously applied, self-sealing sealant which, at least immediately after its application, has a tackiness required for the adhesive attachment of the sound absorber. The sound absorber is made up of a plurality of annular component sound-absorber elements that extend in the circumferential direction. Two directly adjacently arranged annular component sound-absorber elements are spaced apart from one another in the axial direction by a clear distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Matthias Jacob, Oliver Schuermann
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Publication number: 20180117974Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a self-sealing sealant arranged in its interior, on the inner surface opposite from the tread, the sealant being highly viscous and the sealant having such a tackiness that it adheres to the inner surface. The inner surface on which the sealant is arranged has regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect, these regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect taking up between 40% and 60% of the inner surface on which the sealant is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Matthias Jacob, Oliver Schuermann
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Publication number: 20180079263Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tyre with a sound-absorbing inner absorber (9) adhesively attached in its interior to the inner surface (7) opposite from the tread (1), wherein the inner absorber (9) adheres to an automatically sealing sealant (8), which at least immediately after being applied has the tackiness required for the adhesive attachment. In order not to influence the flow properties of the sealant disadvantageously and in order to ensure a reliable sealing effect of the sealant, a separating layer (10) is arranged between the sealant (8) and the inner absorber (9) and the separating layer (10) is made in such a way as to ensure a sufficient flowability of the sealant (8) for the sealing and a reliable adhesive attachment of the foam ring (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Andreas Tyburski, Oliver Schürmann, Nermeen Nabih
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Publication number: 20170313136Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle type for passenger vehicles or vans having at least one wide circumferential groove (1, 1?, 1?, 1??), which runs in the circumferential direction and is bounded on the tread periphery by two edge borders (1a, 1?a, 1?a, 1??a) which run parallel to one another and linearly, and has a groove base (13, 13?, 13?) as well as two groove edges (9, 10, 9?, 10?, 9?, 10?), wherein elements (11, 12, 11?12?, 11?, 12?) which project on the groove edges (9, 10, 9?, 10?, 9?, 10?) are formed alternately in the circumferential direction on one or other of the groove edges (9, 10, 9?, 10?, 9?, 10?), wherein each projecting element (11, 12, 11?, 12?, 11?, 12?) has a groove edge section (9a, 10a, 9?a, 10?a, 9?a, 10?a) lying opposite on the opposite groove edge (9, 10, 9?, 10?, 9?, 10?), which groove edge section (9a, 10a, 9?a, 10?a, 9?a, 10?a) runs least essentially in the radial direction starting at the edge border (1a, 1?a, 1?a, 1??a) as far as the groove base (13, 13?, 13?), wherein the groove base (13, 13Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Björn-Birk Gläser, Charles Henry Boston, Andreas Domscheit, Oliver Schürmann, Ulrich Behr
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Publication number: 20170015146Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire is provided. The tire includes a thread, an inner surface lying opposite the thread, a self-sealing sealant and a sound-absorbing open-cell foam ring arranged inside the pneumatic vehicle tire. The foam ring is adhesively attached to the inner surface and adheres to the self-sealing sealant which is applied before the sound-absorbing open-cell foam ring is attached to the inner surface. The self-sealing sealant has, at least immediately after being applied, a tackiness required for an adhesive attachment of the sound-absorbing open-cell foam ring. A closed-cell material ring is arranged between the sound-absorbing foam ring and the self-sealing sealant to prevent a diffusion of the sealant into the open-cell foam ring. The closed-cell material ring effects an airtight condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Andreas Tyburski, Oliver Schuermann, Michael Schwarz, Joerg Goener, Joe Guardalabene