Uninterrupted Equatorial Circumferential Rib Patents (Class D12/551)
  • Patent number: 11505008
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire including: in a tread surface of a tread portion, a pair of main grooves (center main groove and shoulder main groove) arranged side by side in a tire lateral direction and extending in a tire circumferential direction; land portions (middle land portion) defined by the main grooves; a plurality of lug grooves arranged side by side in the tire circumferential direction and bent and folded back, each of the lug grooves including one end communicating with the shoulder main groove, the other end terminating within the middle land portion, and a bending point in a middle of a path from one end to the other end; and sipes extending across the lug grooves, at least one side of the sipe with respect to the lug groove being formed in a zigzag shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Ebiko
  • Patent number: 11376891
    Abstract: A tyre for winter comprises a tread portion 2 having a first tread edge (Te1) and a second tread edge (Te2) and sipes 40 provided in at least a part of the tread portion 2. The tread portion 2 is provided with a plurality of first oblique grooves (10A) each extending obliquely from the first tread edge (Te1) toward the second tread edge (Te2). Each of the first oblique grooves (10A) has an inner end (10a) terminating between a tyre equator (C) and the second tread edge (Te2). The inner end (10a) is not connected with other grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Furukawa
  • Patent number: D504388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Dale Edward Umstot, Joseph Henry Laco, Tuck Foo Thum, William Thomas Adams, Jr., Karl Eric Sundkvist, James Ray Millard, Ryan Hampton Copeland
  • Patent number: D505383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Billy Joe Ratliff, Jr., Paul Bryan Maxwell, Michael Joseph Weber, Michael Carl Schiavone, Christopher James Mileti, John Robert Kullman, Jonathan James Shondel
  • Patent number: D508017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Sebastien Morin
  • Patent number: D510903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Izumi Kuramochi, Kenichiro Endo, Hirohisa Hazama, Yuji Tomatsu
  • Patent number: D516997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Furusawa, Hirohisa Hazama, Takumi Morito, Izumi Kuramochi
  • Patent number: D528499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique. S.A.
    Inventors: Dean B Creech, Philip B. Webb, Mark Collett, Luz M. Restrepo
  • Patent number: D530263
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Dean B Creech, Philip B. Webb, Mark Collett, Luz M. Restrepo
  • Patent number: D536660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Paul Bryan Maxwell, Eric Matthew Luecke, Jeremy Edward Whisner
  • Patent number: D549158
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Pascale de Briey-Terlinden, Sebastien Morin
  • Patent number: D559769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Pascale de Briey-Terlinden, Sebastien Morin, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Sebastien Willy Fontaine
  • Patent number: D485228
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: John Anthony Hutz, Oscar Francisco Pereda, Philip Blair Webb, John Christopher Church
  • Patent number: D487424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Takahashi, Asuka Nakamura
  • Patent number: D575221
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Jose Merino
  • Patent number: D490363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Atsusi Miyasaka, Yasuo Himuro
  • Patent number: D579407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Inventors: Dean B. Creech, Luz M. Restrepo, Joseph N. Brown, IV
  • Patent number: D491881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ebiko, Kenichiro Endo, Takeshi Masatomo
  • Patent number: D491882
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Michelin Recherches et Techniques S.A.
    Inventor: Ellen MacDonald Williams
  • Patent number: D579859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Dale Edward Umstot, Brian David Holden, Jeffrey Joe McElfresh, Tuck Foo Thum
  • Patent number: D579860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Pascale de Briey-Terlinden, Sebastien Morin, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Sebastien Willy Fontaine
  • Patent number: D492642
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Sebastien Morin
  • Patent number: D580848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: John A. Hutz
  • Patent number: D584218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsunobu Onoe
  • Patent number: D584219
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Sato
  • Patent number: D588525
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Tanaka
  • Patent number: D588526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Tanaka
  • Patent number: D588527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Sato
  • Patent number: D588981
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Ibaraki
  • Patent number: D599730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Mukai
  • Patent number: D601945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nexen Tire Corporation
    Inventors: Tae Nyeon Kim, Seung Il Choi
  • Patent number: D606927
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Koo Kang
  • Patent number: D608725
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Toyo tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Ohara
  • Patent number: D612324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Delwyn Lovell Harvey, Shannon Joseph Hughes, Eric Jon Berryman, Jonathan James Shondel, Zhidong Zhang
  • Patent number: D626911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasutoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: D641306
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Maurice Graas, Nicolas Claude Jean-Claude Froger, Matthieu Pingenat, William Urbano Villamizar, Bernard Jean Francois Croissant, Alexander Ossipov, Ralf Reinardt
  • Patent number: D642507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Alexander Ossipov
  • Patent number: D666552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Parr, Keith Dumigan
  • Patent number: D708566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fortune Gold Enterprises Ltd.
    Inventor: Feng Wang
  • Patent number: D731402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adriano Tedesco, Massimiliano Alberelli, Takashi Kodama
  • Patent number: D754587
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Pirelli Tyre, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianfranco Colombo, Roberto Bolzoni, Daniele Lorenzetti
  • Patent number: D762553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Yasunaga
  • Patent number: D775059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIAN TYRES PLC
    Inventors: Niko Haanketo, Niko Nummi, Slava Bukarev
  • Patent number: D788022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: OMNI UNITED (S) PTE LTD.
    Inventor: Gajendra Singh Sareen
  • Patent number: D821962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIAN TYRES PLC
    Inventors: Jorma Tikka, Tomi Korkama
  • Patent number: D832191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianfranco Colombo, Roberto Bolzoni, Daniele Lorenzetti
  • Patent number: D832773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: D835568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Jamie L. Harris
  • Patent number: D877693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: John David Coots
  • Patent number: D985484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Future Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Jonathan Doerksen, Beau Robertson, Phil Rullman, Ximena Prugue