Patents by Inventor Sascha Funk-Friedek

Sascha Funk-Friedek 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: 20230202243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire of a radial type of construction, comprising two bead regions with bead cores, a carcass insert running around the bead cores and comprising carcass turn-ups extending in the direction of the sidewalls, at least one rubber rim strip, which forms the outer surface of a bead region and consists of a first rubber rim strip part, consisting of a first rubber compound, and a second rubber rim strip part, consisting of a second rubber compound, wherein the first rubber rim strip part runs along the carcass turn-up and the second rubber rim strip part is designed such that, after pulling onto a rim, it is at least partially positioned between the bead cores and the rim, characterized in that the first rubber compound has a rebound elasticity at 20° C. according to DIN 53512 in the range of 20% and 80% and the rebound elasticity of the second rubber compound, likewise measured at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Sascha Funk-Friedek, Mario Montalvo, Justus Römer, Matthias Plückers
  • Publication number: 20180009276
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire with run-flat properties, having a tread (1), having a multi-ply belt assembly (2), having an inner ply (4) which is of air-tight form, having a carcass (3) which, in the bead region (5), is led from axially inside axially outward as a carcass turn-up (3a) around tension-resistant cores (6), and having side walls (8) within which there is arranged at least one reinforcement profile (9) which is of sickle-shaped cross section and which is of closed ring-shaped form around the circumference of the side wall, wherein the inner ply (4) does not run continuously through the tire cross section from bead region (5) to bead region (5), it rather being the case that, within the cross-sectional height (10) of the reinforcement profile (9), the inner ply is omitted; the inner ply (4a) is, in a region situated opposite the tread (1), arranged between the two upper ends (11) of the reinforcement profiles (9), and the inner ply (4a) does not cover said two ends (11) of the reinforcement profiles (9
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Habicht, Sascha Funk-Friedek