Tire Segment Engaging Channel Box Coacting With Pressure Surface Or Rim Patents (Class 425/15)
  • Patent number: 8822961
    Abstract: A curing lamp apparatus mounts to a work surface with a suction cup. A base is mounted to the suction cup. A flexible neck extends from the base to the lamp head. The lamp head includes a lamp element with first and second UV light sources which emit UV light at different wavelengths. A control circuit is located in the base. A heat sink is provided on the lamp head including a conductive plate and projecting pins. A protective housing encloses the plate and pins. A timing circuit controls the light source for automatic shut off. External or internal power is provided for the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: TCG International Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Thomas, Keith Beveridge, David Osland, Roger Olsen, Penny Chatterton, Jay Bickford
  • Patent number: 8679382
    Abstract: Improved methods and apparatus are disclosed for correcting one or more uniformity characteristics in a tire and particularly to correction in a low profile tire or a tire having a projection along the sidewall. The uniformity characteristic may be a radial force variation, conicity, or both. Correction is accomplished by stretching portions of the tire architecture to create permanent deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Clarence Hair, Timothy B. Rhyne, Patrice Estor
  • Patent number: 7831346
    Abstract: A method for detecting decompression of tires based on the rotational speed of wheels mounted on a vehicle, comprising the steps of: detecting the rotational speed of each of the above-mentioned wheels, determining the speed against ground of the vehicle, calculating the speed information of a fixed wheel from the rotational speeds of said wheels, calculating the judgment value of the wheel position by comparing the speed information of the wheels with the speed against ground of the vehicle, comparing the judgment value of the wheel position with the basis value of the wheel position obtained by preliminarily comparing the speed against ground of the vehicle with the speed information of the wheels at prescribed inner pressure, and judging decompression of tires based on relation between the comparison value of the basis value with the judgment value and a fixed threshold. A region of judging decompression of tires can be broadened and the accuracy of reduced pressure judgment can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi Kitano
  • Patent number: 7551992
    Abstract: A method for detecting decompression of tires based on the rotational speed of wheels mounted on a vehicle, comprising the steps of: detecting the rotational speed of each of the above-mentioned wheels, determining the speed against ground of the vehicle, calculating the speed information of a fixed wheel from the rotational speeds of said wheels, calculating the judgment value of the wheel position by comparing the speed information of the wheels with the speed against ground of the vehicle, comparing the judgment value of the wheel position with the basis value of the wheel position obtained by preliminarily comparing the speed against ground of the vehicle with the speed information of the wheels at prescribed inner pressure, and judging decompression of tires based on relation between the comparison value of the basis value with the judgment value and a fixed threshold. A region of judging decompression of tires can be broadened and the accuracy of reduced pressure judgment can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Kitano
  • Patent number: 7322810
    Abstract: Method for identifying compounds useful for the therapy of cancers in which the activity of Myc is causally involved. The method is based on measuring the activity of the E3 ligase HectH9, which is required for ubiquitination and activation of Myc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Eilers
  • Patent number: 7083692
    Abstract: Methods and devices for vulcanizing or cross-linking under pressure and increased temperature shaped bodies that consist especially of rubber mixtures. The shaped body is first dipped into a bed of fine-grained pourable or free-flowing bulk material with the sections to be vulcanized and the bulk material is brought into evenly tight contact with the surfaces of the shaped body while the bulk material is pressurized and brought to the elevated temperature at least in the region adjoining the section of the shaped body to be vulcanized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Stahlgruber Otto Gruber GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Patrick Scheungraber
  • Patent number: 6641381
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layered diamond dicing blade. More particularly, the blade is a multi-layered dicing blade comprising an inner layer with a first set of diamond particles and an outer layer overlying the inner layer. The inner layer extends to the outermost periphery of the dicing blade. The outer layer comprises a second set of diamond particles having a size smaller than the first set of diamond particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael B. Ball
  • Patent number: 4858881
    Abstract: Repair plates particularly adapted for mending various surfaces of a vehicle tire in which a plate body is formed from an epoxy casting resin material which is stable at curing temperatures of at least 220 deg. F., and has a face surface having the same configuration as the area of the surface of the tire to be mended, and a perforated aluminum plate imbedded in the rear surface of the plate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Inventor: James W. Alloway
  • Patent number: 4708608
    Abstract: A heat pad for pressing against a curved surface of an annular tire to vulcanize a tire patch having a channel-shaped sheet member of resilient conductive rubber material with reinforcing electrodes adhered to the sheet member at the elongated side edges, a cover of insulating rubber material encasing the sheet member and an intermediate portion between the electrodes stretchable to conform to the curved surface of the tire under pressure from a pressing member urging the pad against the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Inventor: Jobbie DiRocco
  • Patent number: 4152191
    Abstract: An endless tread assembly is fabricated on a ring having grooves and ridges which mold the radially inward surface of the tread assembly. The ring is a thin walled cylinder having a single slit or gap. The tread assembly on the ring is suspended by rotatable wheels rollable on the inward surface of the ring, so as to position an arcuate portion of the ring and tread assembly between a fixed press arm and a single movable heated press mold shoe operable to mold about a 40 degree arc of the tread assembly between the shoe and the ring backed by the press arm. Lugs on the inward surface of the ring cooperate with a latch fixed on the press arm to index selected increments of the tread assembly and ring between the press arm and mold segment. After all arcuate increments of the tread assembly have been molded and cured, the ring is opened at the gap and then simply flexed to reduce its diameter sufficiently to remove the cured tread assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Richard J. Olsen
  • Patent number: D269128
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Burroughs Wellcome Co.
    Inventor: Robert J. H. Hiscock