Patents by Inventor Robert Allen Losey
Robert Allen Losey 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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Publication number: 20230243077Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for producing an annular multiaxial laid fabric and to an annular object produced therewith. The object of the invention is therefore to create a method and a device for forming a multiaxial laid fabric for annular structures which has no twisting or displacement of the thread layers. Furthermore, it should no longer be necessary to close a butt join or overlap separately to form a closed ring of the multiaxial laid fabric. This object is achieved in that at least a lower thread layer (2a) and an upper thread layer in the form of an endless thread array or an endless single thread, or in the form of thread-array sections or single-thread sections, are laid around the entire circumference of two mutually spaced ring elements (3) with differing thread orientations, and the first and upper thread layers (2a, 2b) are then fixed to each other at points.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Peter Rotter, René Glöckner, Mike Rickmann, Jürgen Tröltzsch, Francesco Sportelli, Claude Boes, Stefan Wilms, Romain Jack Rodolphe Mersch, Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Robert Allen Losey, Daniel Ray Downing
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Publication number: 20210188003Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly is described herein having an outer annular ring which includes a ground contacting tread portion and a shear band. One or more spoke disks are integrally mounted on a wheel wherein a plurality of anchors on the spoke disks are received in mating aligned slots of the wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Kurtis Dale Kandel, Robert Allen Losey, Steven Allan Kontney, Andrew Brent Mendenhall
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Publication number: 20210061009Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly is described herein having an outer an annular ring which includes a ground contacting tread portion and a shear band. One or more spoke disks are integrally mounted on a wheel wherein a plurality of anchors on the spoke disks are received in mating aligned slots of the wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Kurtis Dale Kandel, Robert Allen Losey, Steven Allan Kontney, Andrew Brent Mendenhall
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Patent number: 10239368Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube mounted within a tire sidewall groove. The air tube is in contacting engagement with opposite angled groove surfaces surrounding the air tube. A segment of the air tube is flattened from an expanded diameter to a flat diameter by bending and compression of the groove in a rolling tire footprint to force air evacuated from the flattened segment along a tube air passageway. A tube is positioned within the groove, wherein the tube has a circular cross-sectional shape and an outside diameter D, and the groove does not have a circular cross-sectional shape, wherein said groove has a width W and a length L, wherein D is greater than W.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Robert Allen Losey, Thulasiram Gobinath
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Patent number: 10052834Abstract: A method in accordance with the present invention retreads an air maintenance tire. The method comprises the steps of: grinding remaining tread material from a tire casing for a worn air-maintenance tire; temporarily securing a contoured piece around a structure secured to the inner surface of the tire casing; placing a tread on the tire casing; inflating a bladder within an internal cavity of the tire casing and around the contoured piece whereby the bladder does not contact the structure; securing the tread to the tire casing; deflating the bladder; separating the tire casing and tread secured to the tire casing from the bladder; and removing the contoured piece from the tire casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Robert Allen Losey
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Patent number: 9956823Abstract: A method of making a tire comprising the steps of providing a core; forming a first layer of ply by winding a strip of one or more rubber coated cords onto the core in a geodesic pattern extending from a first shoulder to a second shoulder opposite said first shoulder and being tangent to the bead at a location between said first shoulder and said second shoulder.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Robert Allen Losey, Samuel Patrick Landers, Thulasiram Gobinath, Luis Antonio Cabrera
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Publication number: 20170368879Abstract: A structurally supported tire includes a ground contacting annular tread portion, an annular shear band and at least one spoke disk connected to the shear band, wherein the spoke disk has at least one spoke, wherein the spoke extends between an outer ring and an inner ring in a first parabolic curve. The spoke disk may further includes a second spoke having a second parabolic curve different from the first curve, and overlapping with the first spoke.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Joseph Carmine LETTIERI, Robert Allen LOSEY, James Alfred BENZING, II, Addison Brian SIEGEL, Andrew Brent MENDENHALL, Timothy Michael ROONEY, Rani HARB, Kenneth Wayne RUDD, Mahdy MALEKZADEH MOGHANI
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Patent number: 9669671Abstract: An air maintenance tire and air pump assembly is provided including a tire and an elongate tubular air passageway enclosed within a flexing region of a tire sidewall. A plurality of check valve devices are spaced apart and positioned along the air passageway into multiple air passageway segments. A check valve membrane opens to allow pressurized air to directionally pass through the check valve device from an upstream passageway segment to a downstream passageway segment and closes to prevent air from passing in an opposite direction through the check valve from the downstream segment to the upstream segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Thulasiram Gobinath, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Robin Lamgaday, Robert Allen Losey
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Publication number: 20170087942Abstract: A tire assembly includes a cured tire having a tire cavity and first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region, the first sidewall having at least one bending region operatively bending within a rolling tire footprint and a sidewall groove cut into the cured tire and defined by straight sidewalls and a semicircular bottom positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall, the sidewall groove deforming, segment by segment, between a non-deformed state and a deformed, constricted state in response to the deformation of the bending region when adjacent the rolling tire footprint of the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventor: Robert Allen LOSEY
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Patent number: 9533533Abstract: An air pumping tube and tire system and method of assembling is provided in which a tire groove is formed to extend into a flexing region of a tire sidewall and a complementary air pumping tube inserts into the tire groove. In the green, uncured air pumping tube condition, one or more check valves are assembled into the air pumping tube through access shafts and align with an internal air passageway of the air pumping tube. Plug components of the system enclose the check valves in the air pumping tube and the check valve-containing green air pumping tube is then cured.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Thulasiram Gobinath, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Robin Lamgaday, Robert Allen Losey, Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin
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Patent number: 9421832Abstract: An air maintenance tire and pump assembly comprising: a tire having two spaced inextensible beads; a ground contacting tread portion; a pair of individual sidewalls extending radially inward from the axial outer edges of said tread portion to join the respective beads; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; an innerliner disposed radially inward of the carcass, the innerliner having a innerliner surface facing an interior cavity of the tire; an elongate substantially annular air passageway enclosed within a bending region of the tire, the air passageway operatively closing and opening segment by segment as the bending region of the tire passes through a rolling tire footprint to pump air along the air passageway; an air inlet port assembly coupled to and in air flow communication with the air passageway at an inlet air passageway junction, the air inlet port assembly operable to channel inlet air from outside of the tire into the air passageway, the air inlet port assembly comprising a reguType: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Carolin Anna Welter, Dinesh Chandra, Robert Allen Losey
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Patent number: 9387737Abstract: A tire assembly having: a tire having a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls extending radially inward from the tread portion to join with a respective bead; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; a pump passageway positioned within a bending region of the tire, the pump passageway being operative to open and close as the tire rotates; a valve assembly in fluid communication with the pump passageway; a pocket formed in the tire; a filter assembly mounted in the pocket, said filter assembly being in air flow communication with the valve assembly, wherein the pocket has an area larger than the area of the filter housing wherein the valve assembly has an inlet, wherein the filter assembly has an outlet, wherein a tube connects the filter outlet assembly to the inlet of the valve assembly; wherein the tube is made of a rubber composition having a shore D hardness greater than 40 as measured by ASTM-D2240.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Carolin Anna Welter, Dinesh Chandra, Robert Leon Benedict, Robin Lamgaday, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Thulasiram Gobinath, Robert Allen Losey
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Publication number: 20160167457Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube mounted within a tire sidewall groove. The air tube is in contacting engagement with opposite angled groove surfaces surrounding the air tube. A segment of the air tube is flattened from an expanded diameter to a flat diameter by bending and compression of the groove in a rolling tire footprint to force air evacuated from the flattened segment along a tube air passageway. A tube is positioned within the groove, wherein the tube has a circular cross-sectional shape and an outside diameter D, and the groove does not have a circular cross-sectional shape, wherein said groove has a width W and a length L, wherein D is greater than W.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Robert Allen Losey, Thulasiram Gobinath
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Publication number: 20160039258Abstract: The present invention is directed to a tire assembly having: a tire having a tread portion and a pair of sidewalls extending radially inward from the tread portion to join with a respective bead; a supporting carcass for the tread portion and sidewalls; a pump passageway positioned within a bending region of the tire, the pump passageway being operative to open and close as the tire rotates; a valve assembly in fluid communication with the pump passageway; a pocket formed in the tire; a filter assembly mounted in the pocket, said filter assembly being in air flow communication with the valve assembly, wherein the pocket has an area larger than the area of the filter housing wherein the valve assembly has an inlet, wherein the filter assembly has an outlet, wherein a tube connects the filter outlet assembly to the inlet of the valve assembly; wherein the tube is made of a rubber composition having a shore D hardness greater than 40 as measured by ASTM-D2240.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Carolin Anna Welter, Dinesh Chandra, Robert Leon Benedict, Robin Lamgaday, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Thulasiram Gobinath, Robert Allen Losey
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Publication number: 20150375575Abstract: An air maintenance tire and air pump assembly is provided including a tire and an elongate tubular air passageway enclosed within a flexing region of a tire sidewall. A plurality of check valve devices are spaced apart and positioned along the air passageway into multiple air passageway segments. A check valve membrane opens to allow pressurized air to directionally pass through the check valve device from an upstream passageway segment to a downstream passageway segment and closes to prevent air from passing in an opposite direction through the check valve from the downstream segment to the upstream segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Robert Leon Benedict, Thulasiram Gobinath, Cheng-Hsiung Lin, Robin Lamgaday, Robert Allen Losey
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Patent number: D803749Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Robert Allen Losey, James Alfred Benzing, II, Addison Brian Siegel, Andrew Brent Mendenhall, Kenneth Wayne Rudd, Rani Harb, Mahdy Malekzadeh Moghani
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Patent number: D803750Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Robert Allen Losey, James Alfred Benzing, II, Addison Brian Siegel, Andrew Brent Mendenhall, Kenneth Wayne Rudd, Rani Harb, Mahdy Malekzadeh Moghani
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Patent number: D804389Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Robert Allen Losey, James Alfred Benzing, II, Addison Brian Siegel, Andrew Brent Mendenhall, Kenneth Wayne Rudd, Rani Harb, Mahdy Malekzadeh Moghani, Jonathan James Shondel
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Patent number: D804390Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Robert Allen Losey, James Alfred Benzing, II, Addison Brian Siegel, Andrew Brent Mendenhall, Kenneth Wayne Rudd, Rani Harb, Mahdy Malekzadeh Moghani, Jonathan James Shondel
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Patent number: D1012830Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANYInventors: Dale Edward Umstot, Robert Allen Losey, Nathan Edward Yensho