With Interrupted Equatorial Circumferential Groove Patents (Class D12/596)
  • Patent number: 11161375
    Abstract: The tire has a tread portion 2 comprising a plurality of main grooves and a first land portion 11 divided by the main grooves. The first land portion 11 comprises a plurality of first blocks 15 divided by first lateral grooves 14. The first lateral groove 14 is provided with a first tie bar 19 raising from a part of the groove bottom excluding its end portions in the tire axial direction. The first block 15 is provided with a first sipe 20 inclined with respect to the tire axial direction to the same orientation over its entire length from a first longitudinal edge 26 to a second longitudinal edges 27 of the block. The first sipe 20 is composed of a first portion 21 extending from the first longitudinal edge 26, a second portion 22 extending from the second longitudinal edge 27, and a third portion 23 between the first portion 21 and the second portion 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma Mori
  • Patent number: 10953698
    Abstract: The tread comprises circumferential grooves which delimit an intermediate row (I) and edge rows (B). The tread also has a plurality of V-shaped oblique grooves with branches that make an angle of 30° to 60° with the axial direction. The circumferential and oblique grooves delimit a plurality of V-shaped blocks in each intermediate row. In each V-shaped block, there is a canal below the tread surface, and this canal has a width of 2 to 6 mm and is intended to generate a new groove after a predetermined amount of wear. When new, each canal has openings that open into the oblique grooves. A bridge of material is formed between the V-shaped blocks and occupies heightwise at least 40% of the depth of the oblique grooves and doing so over a width at least 10 mm. The bridge of material is suitable for not closing the openings of the canals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Damien Bardin, Fabien Marlier
  • Patent number: D583312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Murphy, John Kotanides, Jr., Timothy Robert Richards, Terrence Lee Parsons
  • Patent number: D583755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Shingo Takahashi
  • Patent number: D584681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Norihiro Shimada
  • Patent number: D608272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuko Osaka
  • Patent number: D615029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuji Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D633860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Tyre Research Institute of Shanghai Tyre & Rubber Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hongbin Su
  • Patent number: D637142
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Bernard Robert Nicolas, Nizar Toumni
  • Patent number: D637146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Nakamizo
  • Patent number: D652784
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Lange, Thomas Buchinger-Barnstorf
  • Patent number: D730813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D756902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nomoto
  • Patent number: D761724
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D765583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SHANDONG LINGLONG TYRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Wang, Haiyi Zhang, Changqing Yu, Haitao Sui, Xiaogang Ma, Tongjun Jiang
  • Patent number: D766169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D770370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Ishihara
  • Patent number: D773984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Victor Abarotin, Craig Jurs
  • Patent number: D781782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simone Neroni, Renata Erica Morace
  • Patent number: D785553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Damien Bardin, Fabien Marlier, Arnaud Larregain, Frederic Honnorat
  • Patent number: D785557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Damien Bardin, Fabien Marlier, Arnaud Larregain, Frederic Honnorat
  • Patent number: D789289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Omni United (S) Pte Ltd.
    Inventor: Gajendra Singh Sareen
  • Patent number: D795794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Kurt A. Thieman
  • Patent number: D795795
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Bryan D. Robbins
  • Patent number: D808895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: API, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Kreitzman, Sunrong Gong, Haipeng Zhao
  • Patent number: D821301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Damien Bardin, Arnaud Larregain, Frederic Honnorat
  • Patent number: D832776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: M'Hamed Louzri, Corey Sullivan, Lee Montgomery, Davidson Williams
  • Patent number: D833966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventors: M'hamed Louzri, Corey Sullivan, Charles McPillan, Anang Somanchi
  • Patent number: D845222
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Calvin M. Wu
  • Patent number: D845223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Shandong Linglong Tyre Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Wang, Jingjing Liu, Xueling Zhang, Hongling Feng, Xiaogang Ma, Haitao Sui
  • Patent number: D850359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hibino
  • Patent number: D851022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Seth M. Bell
  • Patent number: D853947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: David Michael Pribula
  • Patent number: D867273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Ahmad Shafiq Bani Hani, Mahesh Kavaturu, Sean Michael Hafer
  • Patent number: D868683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Hamanaka, Kotaro Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: D879024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventor: Kurt A. Thieman
  • Patent number: D883909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D884590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Honghua Zhang
  • Patent number: D886037
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Devin Curtis Dickerhoof, Ashley Amanda Jones
  • Patent number: D895537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shun Sato
  • Patent number: D900726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Max Harold Dixon, Robert John Hermann, Christine Ann Demagall, Daniel Thomas Murphy
  • Patent number: D901375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PRINX CHENGSHAN (QINGDAO) INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DESIGN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Lv, Jiayu Qu
  • Patent number: D902839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Qingdao Sentury Tire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yixin Zhang, Daoyun Ren, Hairong Fu, Yan Xi
  • Patent number: D902840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dcenti Tire, Inc.
    Inventor: John Zhao
  • Patent number: D908079
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Lippert
  • Patent number: D908603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Lippert
  • Patent number: D937185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventor: Claudio Minoli
  • Patent number: D981943
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael William Diehl, Robert John Hermann
  • Patent number: D981944
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael William Diehl, Robert John Hermann
  • Patent number: D1005932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mark E. Collett, Philip Kovanis, Jason Schoenmaker, Jason Zychiewicz, David Freeman