Patents by Inventor Udo Frerichs
Udo Frerichs 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: 10071604Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has a carcass with at least one carcass ply. The surface of the carcass ply has an overlay made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The overlay extends continuously from an electrically conductive bead base to a superstructure and contacts the superstructure. A method for making a pneumatic vehicle tire includes the steps of making a carcass ply, covering a surface of the carcass ply with a continuous overlay made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The overlay contacts an electrically conductive bead base and the superstructure in the finished pneumatic vehicle tire.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Publication number: 20160039252Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has a carcass with at least one carcass ply. The surface of the carcass ply has an overlay made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The overlay extends continuously from an electrically conductive bead base to a superstructure and contacts the superstructure. A method for making a pneumatic vehicle tire includes the steps of making a carcass ply, covering a surface of the carcass ply with a continuous overlay made of an electrically conductive rubber mixture. The overlay contacts an electrically conductive bead base and the superstructure in the finished pneumatic vehicle tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventor: Udo Frerichs
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Patent number: 8815032Abstract: A process for producing a tread for a tire with a radially inner layer composed of a first rubber material and with a radially outer second layer composed of a second rubber material and forming the ground-contact surface of the pneumatic tire. The first rubber material has higher electrical conductivity than the second rubber material, and where, in a form of a web axially dividing the second layer around the periphery of the tire, the first rubber material extends radially outwards through the second layer as far as the ground-contact surface. A ply of the first and second layers are constructed radially one on the other, on a rotationally symmetric construction surface, on one of the two axial sides of the web to be produced.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Publication number: 20140105843Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an ester comprising an after-treatment of the ester to give an ester in granule form of defined particle size distribution, a device for carrying out this process, a process for the preparation of a thermoplastic composition comprising the ester prepared according to the invention, a process for the production of a shaped article comprising the ester according to the invention or the thermoplastic composition according to the invention, a process for the production of a packed product, a process for the production of an at least partly coated object, and uses of the esters according to the invention as an additive in various compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: Peter Daute, Wilhelm Reiners, Martin Schäfer, Udo Frerichs, Hinrich Hildebrandt, Joern Ellerbrake
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Publication number: 20130036713Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an ester in a reactor, wherein at least a portion of the process components is led in a delivery stream outside the reactor over a heat transfer surface as a film, the ratio of the delivery stream to the heat transfer surface being in a range of from 0.25 to 3 m/h, a device, a process for the preparation of a thermoplastic composition comprising the ester prepared according to the invention, a process for the production of a shaped article comprising the ester according to the invention or the thermoplastic composition according to the invention, a process for the production of a packed product, a process for the production of an at least partly coated object, and uses of the esters according to the invention as an additive in various compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventors: Peter Daute, Wilhelm Reiners, Martin Schäfer, Udo Frerichs, Hinrich Hildebrandt, Joern Ellerbrake
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Publication number: 20130039872Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an ester in a reactor, a device, a process for the preparation of a thermoplastic composition comprising the ester prepared according to the invention, a process for the production of a shaped article comprising the ester according to the invention or the thermoplastic composition according to the invention, a process for the production of a packed product, a process for the production of an at least partly coated object, and uses of the esters according to the invention as an additive in various compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventors: Peter Daute, Wilhelm Reiners, Martin Schäfer, Udo Frerichs, Hinrich Hildebrandt, Joern Ellerbrake
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Publication number: 20130035271Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an ester from a polyol which is solid at 25° C. and a carboxylic acid component which contains at least 50 wt. % of at least one mono- or polyunsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid, based on the total weight of the carboxylic acid component, in a reactor under reduced pressure. The invention also provides a device, a process for the preparation of a thermoplastic composition comprising the ester prepared according to the invention, a process for the production of a shaped article comprising the ester according to the invention or the thermoplastic composition according to the invention, a process for the production of a packed product, a process for the production of an at least partly coated object, and uses of the esters according to the invention as an additive in various compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: February 7, 2013Inventors: Peter Daute, Wilhelm Reiners, Martin Schäfer, Udo Frerichs, Hinrich Hildebrandt, Joern Ellerbrake
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Patent number: 8211258Abstract: A tread for a vehicle tire, such as a pneumatic vehicle tire, is provided with an electrically conducting layer axially inside a portion of a first, radially outer rubber layer of the tread. The electrically conductive layer extends from a second, radially inner rubber layer of the tread on the radially inner side of the tread rubber material up to a ground contact surface of the tread. The rubber material of the electrically conducting layer and the rubber material of the radially inner rubber layer of the tread have a higher electrical conductivity than the rubber material of the radially outer rubber layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Publication number: 20120160423Abstract: A tread for a vehicle tire has an electrically conducting layer axially inside a portion of a first, radially outer rubber layer of the tread. The electrically conductive layer extends from a second, radially inner rubber layer of the tread on the radially inner side of the tread rubber material up to a ground contact surface of the tread. During the tire build-up, an accumulation of rubber material of higher electrical conductivity is built on a first rubber layer of higher electrical conductivity. The accumulation is formed into a ridge web and then less-conductive rubber is laid laterally next to the web, such that the web of rubber material reaches up to the ground contact surface in the finished vehicle tire. The web is shaped by forming rollers, by baffles, or by a forming ring with a corresponding shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: UDO FRERICHS
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Publication number: 20090095390Abstract: A process for producing a tread for a tire with a radially inner layer composed of a first rubber material and with a radially outer second layer composed of a second rubber material and forming the ground-contact surface of the pneumatic tire. The first rubber material has higher electrical conductivity than the second rubber material, and where, in a form of a web axially dividing the second layer around the periphery of the tire, the first rubber material extends radially outwards through the second layer as far as the ground-contact surface. A ply of the first and second layers are constructed radially one on the other, on a rotationally symmetric construction surface, on one of the two axial sides of the web to be produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Publication number: 20090050257Abstract: A tread for a vehicle tire, such as a pneumatic vehicle tire, is provided with an electrically conducting layer axially inside a portion of a first, radially outer rubber layer of the tread. The electrically conductive layer extends from a second, radially inner rubber layer of the tread on the radially inner side of the tread rubber material up to a ground contact surface of the tread. The rubber material of the electrically conducting layer and the rubber material of the radially inner rubber layer of the tread have a higher electrical conductivity than the rubber material of the radially outer rubber layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Publication number: 20060278326Abstract: The invention relates to a method for building a tire casing on a tire building drum for a self-supporting radial tire, wherein the tire casing comprises an inner layer, reinforcing profiles for side walls as well as side walls, at least one casing ply and bead areas and wherein the tire building drum is provided with surrounding pockets for receiving the reinforcing profiles, characterized in that the regions of the reinforcing profiles (9) coming into contact with the inner layer (4) are provided with a groove structure, which comprises a plurality of grooves (12) extending in a continuous manner, in particular transverse to the circumferential direction of the tire building drum (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2004Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Werner Doering, Jens Winkler, Udo Frerichs, Michael Hahn
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Patent number: 6619350Abstract: Vehicle wheel includes a rim and a pneumatic tire which includes a tread, two side walls, a carcass, reinforcing elements, and two tire beads with bead cores. An emergency running support body is supported on the rim which is arranged to support one of the pneumatic tire and an interior of the tread in an event of an emergency condition. The emergency running support body includes a shell-shaped ring body located inside the pneumatic tire and an emergency running surface on its exterior. At least one container, which contains a lubricant, is positioned inside a first ring chamber. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification , nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Dieckmann, Hans-Bernd Hellweg, Michael Glinz, Roland Jenke, Joachim Busche, Udo Frerichs
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Patent number: 6523589Abstract: Rim for a vehicle tire with an emergency surface, vehicle tire with tubeless pneumatic tire and emergency surface, and process of forming emergency surface. The rim includes a radially outer surface and an emergency running support surface formed on the radially outer surface. The emergency running support surface includes an annular layer of at least one of rubber, rubber-like material, and plastic. The annular layer is vulcanized onto the radially outer surface. The vehicle wheel includes a tubeless pneumatic tire, at least one rim comprising a radially outer surface, and an emergency running support surface formed on the radially outer surface. The emergency running support surface includes an annular layer of at least one of rubber, rubber-like material, and plastic. The annular layer is vulcanized onto a the radially outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2000Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Patent number: 5034079Abstract: A method and apparatus for vulcanizing pneumatic vehicle tires having heads that in the mounted state are disposed on the radially inner periphery of a rim. In order for such tires to achieve a satisfactorily contoured vulcanization, and in order at the same time to produce sealing surfaces with great precision, the tire is vulcanized with its beads in their operating position. During the vulcanization, the radially outwardly disposed surfaces of the tire beads are shaped with the aid of rigid, one-piece, shaped molding rings.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1988Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventors: Heinz-Dieter Rach, Udo Frerichs, Hans-Ulrich Klose, Carsten Boltze
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Patent number: 5018565Abstract: A filler ring for a vehicle wheel and pneumatic tire assembly, in which the beads of the tire are mounted on the radially inner periphery of a drop-center wheel rim adjacent essentially radially inwardly extending rim flanges. The filler ring fills a space located between a tire bead and a wall of the drop-center. The filler ring is provided with a plurality of circumferentially extending hollow chambers that are disposed in two planes which are superimposed over one another in a radial direction and are separated from one another via a diagonal rib. Each of the planes of hollow chambers is provided with at least two hollow chambers that are successively arranged in an axial direction. The filler ring has a side wall that rests against a tire bead and extends perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and an oppositely disposed inclined wall that extends at approximately 80.degree. to the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1990Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventors: Udo Frerichs, Eckhard Kuhlmann, Heinrich Kohler, Axel Metge
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Patent number: 4967822Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a vehicular tire and wheel assembly that includes a rigid wheel rim, which is provided with essentially radially inwardly extending rim flanges, rim seating surfaces disposed on the radially inner side of the rim ring and inclined in the transverse direction, and a recessed mounting bed for each tire bead, and that also includes a pneumatic tire of elastomeric material, with bead seating surfaces of the tire beads being disposed adjacent to the rim flanges on the rim seating surfaces, and with the carcass of the tire being anchored in the beads by being looped about pressure-resistant bead cores.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1989Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventors: Udo Frerichs, Carsten Boltze
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Patent number: 4922983Abstract: A combination of a pneumatic tire and a vehicle wheel. The wheel has a rigid rim provided with essentially radially inwardly extending rim flanges. The radially outer side of the rim has emergency operation support surfaces, and the radially inner side of the rim is provided with respective recessed mounting portions for the beads of the tire, which is made of rubber or rubber-like synthetic material and has a carcass that is anchored in the beads by being looped about pull and compression-resistant bead cores thereof. The beads are disposed on rim seating surfaces provided on the radially inner side of the rim next to the rim flanges. The height of the rim flanges and the configuration of the tire beads are coordinated with one another in such a way that when the tire is uninflated and not subjected to load, there is provided between a rim flange and an adjacent inner wall of the tire, at the level of the radially innermost point of the rim flange, a gap of 0.5 to 3 mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1989Date of Patent: May 8, 1990Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventor: Udo Frerichs
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Patent number: 4865532Abstract: An apparatus for vulcanizing pneumatic vehicle tires where the tire beads, in the mounted state, are disposed on the radially inner periphery of a rim next to the essentially radially inwardly extending rim flanges. In order to obtain tires having a long service life and tire beads with a good sealing quality, it is proposed that the tire be vulcanized in essentially the proper contour for operation. Two, respectively radially segmented, bead-forming rings that have a variable diameter and can be displaced axially are provided. For the purpose of vulcanizing the sealing surfaces disposed in the interior of the tire so that these surfaces will rest on the rim in an airtight manner, the bead-forming rings are introduced, in a radially retracted state, into the interior of the tire blank, whereby at least one of the tire beads is ovally deformed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1988Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventors: Udo Frerichs, Carsten Boltze, Heinz-Dieter Rach, Hans-Ulrich Klose
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Patent number: 4850411Abstract: A vehicle wheel for pneumatic tires. The rim of the wheel has radially inwardly extending rim flanges, and adjacent thereto, along the inner periphery, has seats inclined in cross section for a belted tire, and adjacent thereto, has recessed portions. The recessed portions adjoining the seats extend at least partially inclined in cross section. The angle of inclination of the recessed portions with respect to the axial direction is equal to or greater than the corresponding inclination angle of the seats. The recessed portions, in the axial direction, have a dimension which is equal to or greater than that of the axial segments of the seats.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1987Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Continental AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans Seitz, Heinz-Dieter Rach, Henner Pieper, Udo Frerichs