Patents by Inventor Warren James Busch
Warren James Busch 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: 20140255654Abstract: The invention relates to pneumatic tires with ribbed treads which may be, for example pneumatic tires such as bus tires and truck tires.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Roberto Cerrato Meza, Warren James Busch, Paul Harry Sandstrom
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Publication number: 20140060718Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, JR., Ernest Wilford Looman, JR., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 8617334Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Jr., Ernest Wilford Looman, Jr., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Patent number: 8597449Abstract: A method for recovering uncured rubber from unused electron beam pre-cured rubber stock used in the manufacture of pneumatic tires. A first layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having cured rubber is skived with a band knife cutter blade from a second layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having uncured rubber. The band knife cutter blade is lubricated so as to avoid adhesion of the uncured rubber to a leading cutting edge of the cutter blade. After the first layer of cured rubber is removed from the pre-cured rubber stock, the uncured rubber in the second layer is reworked into at least one tire component.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Kathleen Marie Deren, Warren James Busch
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Patent number: 8430142Abstract: An assembly for use in or on a tire. The assembly comprises an electronic device having a body and an adhesive coating on at least the body of the electronic device. The body is at least partially made of a plastic material or a fiber reinforced plastic (FRP). The adhesive coating comprises an imide-based adhesive. The adhesive coating may have a polymer bonding group comprising at least one of natural rubber, butyl rubber, a chlorinated elastomer, polybutadiene, synthetic polyisoprene, or styrene-butadiene rubber or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, the assembly further comprises a first elastomeric layer and a second elastomeric layer. The adhesive coating secures the body to the first and the second elastomeric layers. The first and second elastomeric layers may comprise a butyl-containing compound or natural rubber compound. In one embodiment, the electronic device is a radio frequency identification tag having the body and an antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Warren James Busch, Gary Edwin Tubb
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Publication number: 20130061995Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANYInventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, JR., Ernest Wilford Looman, JR., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Publication number: 20120125505Abstract: A method for recovering uncured rubber from unused electron beam pre-cured rubber stock used in the manufacture of pneumatic tires. A first layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having cured rubber is skived with a band knife cutter blade from a second layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having uncured rubber. The band knife cutter blade is lubricated so as to avoid adhesion of the uncured rubber to a leading cutting edge of the cutter blade. After the first layer of cured rubber is removed from the pre-cured rubber stock, the uncured rubber in the second layer is reworked into at least one tire component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANYInventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Kathleen Marie Deren, Warren James Busch
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Patent number: 8156979Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire which contains a built-in zoned puncture sealant layer. The zoned puncture sealant layer is comprised of organoperoxide depolymerized butyl rubber zones comprised of a central primary zone and lateral zones joined together to form a unitary sealant layer. The sealant of the lateral zones of the sealant layer is of a higher storage modulus (G?) than the sealant of the central zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Inventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Warren James Busch, Patrick David Marks
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Patent number: 7884168Abstract: A heterogeneous rubbery polymer is provided that includes a polymer chain derived from a vinyl aromatic monomer and a conjugated diolefin monomer, wherein from greater than 20 weight percent to about 40 weight percent of units in the rubbery polymer are derived from the vinyl aromatic monomer and from about 60 weight percent to about 80 weight percent of units in the rubbery polymer are derived from the conjugated diolefin monomer. The polymer chain is further characterized by having greater than zero and less than about 30 weight percent of the vinyl aromatic units in sequences containing 1 vinyl aromatic unit, from about 5 weight percent to about 20 weight percent of the vinyl aromatic units in sequences containing 5 to 8 vinyl aromatic units, and greater than zero and less than about 5 weight percent of the vinyl aromatic units in sequences containing 9 or more vinyl aromatic units.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Adel Farhan Halasa, Wen-Liang Hsu, Leh-Yeh Hsu, legal representative, Warren James Busch, David Michael Smith, Sr., Jennifer Elizabeth Labbe, Scott Edwards Johnson
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Publication number: 20100212791Abstract: An assembly for use in or on a tire. The assembly comprises an electronic device having a body and an adhesive coating on at least the body of the electronic device. The body is at least partially made of a plastic material or a fiber reinforced plastic (FRP). The adhesive coating comprises an imide-based adhesive. The adhesive coating may have a polymer bonding group comprising at least one of natural rubber, butyl rubber, a chlorinated elastomer, polybutadiene, synthetic polyisoprene, or styrene-butadiene rubber or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, the assembly further comprises a first elastomeric layer and a second elastomeric layer. The adhesive coating secures the body to the first and the second elastomeric layers. The first and second elastomeric layers may comprise a butyl-containing compound or natural rubber compound. In one embodiment, the electronic device is a radio frequency identification tag having the body and an antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.Inventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Warren James Busch, Gary Edwin Tubb
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Publication number: 20100206443Abstract: A heterogeneous rubbery polymer is provided that includes a polymer chain derived from a vinyl aromatic monomer and a conjugated diolefin monomer, wherein from greater than 20 weight percent to about 40 weight percent of units in the rubbery polymer are derived from the vinyl aromatic monomer and from about 60 weight percent to about 80 weight percent of units in the rubbery polymer are derived from the conjugated diolefin monomer. The polymer chain is further characterized by having greater than zero and less than about 30 weight percent of the vinyl aromatic units in sequences containing 1 vinyl aromatic unit, from about 5 weight percent to about 20 weight percent of the vinyl aromatic units in sequences containing 5 to 8 vinyl aromatic units, and greater than zero and less than about 5 weight percent of the vinyl aromatic units in sequences containing 9 or more vinyl aromatic units.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Adel Farhan Halasa, Wen-Liang Hsu, Leh-Yeh Hsu, Warren James Busch, David Michael Smith, SR., Jennifer Elizabeth Labbe, Scott Edwards Johnson
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Publication number: 20090151838Abstract: This invention relates to a tire having an internal component comprised of a cord reinforced polyisoprene-based rubber composition containing silica reinforcement. Such cord reinforced rubber internal tire component may be, for example, at least one of a tire carcass ply, circumferential overlay ply and circumferential belt ply underlying its tread.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Erik Paul Sandstrom, Paul Harry Sandstrom, Jeremy Elton Miracle, Warren James Busch
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Publication number: 20090126842Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire which contains a built-in zoned puncture sealant layer. The zoned puncture sealant layer is comprised of organoperoxide depolymerized butyl rubber zones comprised of a central primary zone and lateral zones joined together to form a unitary sealant layer. The sealant of the lateral zones of the sealant layer is of a higher storage modulus (G?) than the sealant of the central zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Warren James Busch, Patrick David Marks
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Publication number: 20080142140Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a tire with a built in sealant is provided. The method includes the steps of mounting an inner liner onto a tire building drum, extruding a sealant composition into strips having tapered sidewalls, cutting the strip to a desired length, mounting the sealant over the inner liner in two or more zones, wherein each zone is separated by a circumferential divider which joins the inner liner to the a cover layer forming a barrier to prevent migration of the sealant from one zone to another.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Paul Keyser Blackiston, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
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Publication number: 20080142138Abstract: The present invention relates to a tire puncture sealant and a pneumatic tire containing such puncture sealant. The sealant contains silica reinforcement and butyl rubber depolymerized in the presence of an organoperoxide and modifier comprised of a metal oxide (e.g. magnesium oxide) or a combination of metal oxide modifier and calcium carbonate co-modifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Joseph Alan Incavo, Mervin Victor Pilkington, Warren James Busch
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Patent number: 7064171Abstract: The present invention reveals a tire having a tread that is comprised of (1) 30 phr to 80 phr of a non-random styrene-butadiene rubber comprised of polymer chains that are derived from styrene and 1,3-butadiene, wherein from about 10 weight percent to about 50 weight percent of the repeat units in the styrene-butadiene rubber are derived from styrene, wherein from about 60 weight percent to about 90 weight percent of the repeat units in the styrene-butadiene rubber are derived from 1,3-butadiene, wherein from about 30 weight percent to about 50 weight percent of the styrene repeat units are in sequences containing 5 to 20 styrene repeat units, wherein the bound styrene content found in the first half of the polymer chains differs from the bound styrene content found in the second half of the polymer chains by at least 5 weight percent, wherein the styrene-butadiene rubber has a 1,2-vinyl content which is within the range of about 8 percent to about 20 percent, wherein the styrene-butadiene rubber has a numberType: GrantFiled: September 22, 2005Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Adel Farhan Halasa, Wen-Liang Hsu, David Michael Smith, Sr., Warren James Busch, John Joseph Andre Verthe, Scott Edwards Johnson