Pneumatic Tire Patents (Class 152/391)
  • Tire breaker and anti-knock arrangement
    Publication number: 20030116245
    Abstract: A tire breaker and anti-knock arrangement includes a supplementary bearing structure formed of two parallel supplementary bearing loops supported inside the tire between two inward lips at two sidewalls of the tire for enabling the driver to keep driving the car to a repair shop upon a tire explosion due to an accident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventor: Shut Chen Hsu
  • Green tire bead and composition
    Patent number: 6447905
    Abstract: Tire bead rubber compositions and tire beads made therewith are provided having good dimensional stability, processability and wire adhesion Tire bead rubber compositions containing crosslinked styrene butadiene rubber are also provided having good dimensional stability, processability and wire adhesion. Methods for manufacturing tire beads and tires using dimensionally stale compositions are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Pirelli Tire LLC
    Inventors: Benfei Hu, Stanley T. Esposito, Ronald E. Evans
  • Bead rings of pneumatic tires
    Patent number: 4376458
    Abstract: The properties of a composite bead ring for tires are improved by interposing an annular trifurcated element tangentially of the three unitary bead ring components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissments Michelin
    Inventor: Daniel Lejeune
  • Bead construction for tubeless tires
    Patent number: 4321957
    Abstract: A tire-bead structure for a tubeless tire, especially for trucks and other heavy vehicles, having a steep-shoulder felly on the wheel which can be inclined outwardly at an angle of about 15.degree. to the horizontal, comprises a bead core made up of a plurality of concentric turns of steel band or strip in nesting relationship and bent in an outwardly concave pattern so that at least an axially inward portion of each turn or strip lies at an angle to a radially outward portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1982
    Assignee: Hahn GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Friedrich W. Hahn, Dieter Meyer