Patents by Inventor Tooney Raymond Jones

Tooney Raymond Jones 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).

  • 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