181 |
Pneumatic tire and run-flat tire |
US15135831 |
2016-04-22 |
US10017634B2 |
2018-07-10 |
Sumiko Miyazaki; Kenya Watanabe; Ryo Miyamori |
Provided is a pneumatic tire including a sidewall that has a good balance of excellent handling stability, rolling resistance, and durability and further has excellent flex crack growth resistance. The sidewall is formed from a modified cellulose fiber-containing rubber composition that is allowed to simultaneously achieve excellent rigidity, excellent tensile properties, and low energy loss by improving the dispersibility of the cellulose fiber in rubber. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including a sidewall formed from a modified cellulose fiber-containing rubber composition, the modified cellulose fiber-containing rubber composition containing a modified cellulose fiber (A) obtained by adding a C15 or higher cyclic polybasic acid anhydride (a) containing a hydrophobic group to a cellulose fiber through esterification, a dispersing polymer (B) having a softening point of 135° C. or lower, and a rubber component (C). |
182 |
TIRE FILLING BASED ON ACRYLIC HYDROGELS |
US15737074 |
2016-08-09 |
US20180154595A1 |
2018-06-07 |
Carl WILFRIED; Markus HAUFE |
A method for producing a tire filled with a (meth)acrylic hydrogel, the method comprises a) providing a mixture comprising at least one water-soluble (meth)acrylic compound, water and an initiator, and b) filling the mixture in a tire in which the mixture polymerizes to form the (meth)acrylic hydrogel. The tire filling material is suitable for producing flat proof tires, enables fast and controlled cure and is insensitive towards dosage errors. Moreover, the tire filling material is environmental friendly and cost effective. |
183 |
TIRE STRENGTHENING SYSTEM |
US15374834 |
2016-12-09 |
US20170166008A1 |
2017-06-15 |
Erick Hines |
A tire strengthening system for strengthening a tire is provided. The tire has an inner surface and an inner tube positioned against the inner surface with the inner surface having a pair of sidewalls and a tread area between the sidewalls. The tire strengthening system comprises an adhesive layer applied to the inner surface of the tire and a strengthening material positioned on the adhesive layer. The combined adhesive layer and strengthening material reinforces the structural integrity of the tire, enabling the tire to run longer and smoother and effectively preventing flat tires and blowouts from occurring. |
184 |
RUN FLAT TIRE |
US15302868 |
2015-01-30 |
US20170057302A1 |
2017-03-02 |
Masahiro MAKINO |
This run flat tire includes a carcass toroidally extending between two bead portions and side reinforcing rubber, having a crescent cross-sectional shape in the tire width direction, on the tire width direction inside of the carcass. The relational expressions 0.09≦TWH/TW≦0.19, D/SH≦0.05, and 0.89≦TW/SW≦0.94 are satisfied, where, in a reference state such that the run flat tire is mounted on an applicable rim and inflated to a prescribed internal pressure with no load, TW (mm) represents the half width in the tire width direction between the tread edges, TWH (mm) represents the radial drop height of the tread edge, SW (mm) represents half of the tire maximum width, SH (mm) represents the tire cross-sectional height, and D (mm) represents the drop height of the tire at a position 0.6SW (mm) outward, in the tire width direction, from the tire equatorial plane. |
185 |
SIDE-REINFORCED RUN-FLAT RADIAL TIRE |
US15305098 |
2015-02-06 |
US20170036495A1 |
2017-02-09 |
Gaku OGAWA |
A run-flat radial tire has a tire section height SH equal to or greater than 115 mm and is equipped with a side-reinforcing rubber layer extending along an inner surface of a carcass from one tire side portion to another tire side portion wherein a tire equatorial plane CL is sandwiched in between the one tire side portion and the another tire side portion, wherein a thickness GE of the side-reinforcing rubber layer at the position of the tire equatorial plane and a thickness GA of the side-reinforcing rubber layer at positions where the carcass reaches its maximum width satisfy the relational expression GE≦0.6×GA. |
186 |
BALLISTIC RESILIENT RUN-FLAT TIRE, KIT AND METHOD THEREOF |
US14445661 |
2014-07-29 |
US20160361956A1 |
2016-12-15 |
Robert P. ROSE; Larry R. CARAPELLOTTI; Joseph M. CAMPO |
A ballistic resilient run-flat tire device, kit and method for manufacturing the same are presented for providing a vehicle a capability of traveling for at least 30 miles at 30 miles per hour, after the device has been compromised as of result of exposure due to ballistic ordinance rifle shots such as 7.62×39 mm and 7.62×54R or air loss from road hazard punctures. The device includes a tire carcass and a polyurethane inner coating inside the tire carcass that defines an inflatable hollow chamber within the ballistic resilient run-flat tire. The tire carcass has an annular tread, sidewalls, and beads. The polyurethane inner coating inside the tire carcass defining a hollow chamber provides additional protection along the sidewalls and tread of the tire carcass. The kit includes the un-interconnected elements of the device. The method includes the steps of curing, discharging, filling, injecting, introducing, mounting, obtaining, and preparing. |
187 |
Rubber composition for run-flat tire |
US14440046 |
2013-10-25 |
US09446631B2 |
2016-09-20 |
Yoshihiro Kameda |
A rubber composition for a run-flat tire comprises from 20 to 100 parts by weight of a reinforcing filler per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber containing from 10 to 80 wt. % of butadiene rubber and from 10 to 40 wt. % of natural rubber; wherein the reinforcing filler contains at least 50 wt. % of carbon black; a mode diameter Dst in a mass distribution curve of a Stokes diameter of aggregates of the carbon black is at least 145 nm; a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area N2SA is from 45 to 70 m2/g; and a ratio N2SA/IA of the nitrogen adsorption specific surface area N2SA to an iodine adsorption IA (units: mg/g) is from 1.00 to 1.40. |
188 |
ZERO-PRESSURE TIRE |
US14564595 |
2014-12-09 |
US20150273954A1 |
2015-10-01 |
Abraham Pannikottu; Jon Gerhardt |
A pneumatic radial tire includes a carcass structure having a pair of sidewalls and a crown, a pair of beads, a tread block, a belt structure, and a plurality of reinforcing hoops. The plurality of spaced apart reinforcing hoops are disposed intermediate the crown of the carcass structure and the tread block, and are formed of a rigid material coated in an elastomeric material. The plurality of reinforcing hoops includes a pair of outer reinforcing hoops disposed adjacent the sidewalls of the carcass, and an at least one inner reinforcing hoop disposed between the outer reinforcing hoops. |
189 |
OVERLAY PLY FOR A PNEUMATIC TIRE |
US13898695 |
2013-05-21 |
US20140345772A1 |
2014-11-27 |
Mahmoud Cherif Assaad; Laurent Roger Andre Dubos; Mahesh Kavaturu |
A pneumatic tire includes a carcass reinforced by a carcass ply, at least one belt ply disposed radially outward of the carcass ply in a crown portion of the pneumatic tire, and at least one overlay ply disposed radially outward of the belt ply in the crown portion of the pneumatic tire. The overlay ply includes at least one hybrid cord having at least one first nylon core yarn with at least one second aramid wrap yarn wrapped around the first core yarn such that the first core yarn has a modulus less than a modulus of the second outer metallic filament. |
190 |
Run-flat pneumatic tire assembly and method |
US12364951 |
2009-02-03 |
US08561661B2 |
2013-10-22 |
Edward G. Markow |
A run-flat pneumatic tire assembly includes a pneumatic tire having an elastomeric casing and a tire cavity formed therein. A longitudinally-extending and approximately planar length of strip material is helically arranged within the tire cavity to pre-stress the length of strip material for usage of the pneumatic tire during under-inflated and non-inflated conditions. A method of making a run-flat pneumatic tire assembly is also included. |
191 |
Pneumatic Tire |
US13760136 |
2013-02-06 |
US20130199688A1 |
2013-08-08 |
Keisuke Nakazaki |
A pneumatic tire has a belt cross-sectional width BW as a total width in a tire width direction of a belt layer and a distance Wl as a distance in the tire width direction from an edge on the tread portion side of a run flat liner to an edge of the belt layer. The belt cross-sectional width BW and the distance Wl are such that 0.25≦Wl/(BW/2)≦0.45 is satisfied. A thickness Wr in each of the side wall portions of the pneumatic tire is a thickness in the tire width direction of the run flat liner at a maximum width position, a thickness Ws is a thickness in the tire width direction of a rubber layer at the maximum width position, and the thickness Wr and the thickness Ws are such that 1.2≦Wr/Ws≦1.9 is satisfied. |
192 |
RUN-FLAT TIRE |
US13660009 |
2012-10-25 |
US20130118661A1 |
2013-05-16 |
Susumu TANAKA |
A run-flat tire comprises a tread portion having a left-right asymmetry tread pattern including an inboard tread edge and an outboard tread edge defining a tread width therebetween, a circumferentially extending inner crown main groove disposed in an inner crown area being 20% width of the tread width from a tire equator toward the in-board tread edge, a plurality of inner lateral grooves extending from the inner crown main groove to the in-board tread edge, a plurality of inner blocks separated by the inner crown main groove, inner lateral grooves and the inboard tread edge, wherein each inner block is not provided with any circumferential grooves, or is provided with at least one narrow circumferential groove having a groove width of less than 2.0 mm. |
193 |
RUNFLAT DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR FITTING THE SAME |
US13138972 |
2010-05-07 |
US20120223569A1 |
2012-09-06 |
Richard Lust |
The present invention relates to a runflat device (2), particularly, but not exclusively, a combined runflat and double sided beadlock that can be fitted to any size and type of wheel (1) regardless of the shape and depth of the wheel well (10). The runflat device (2) can be fitted using standard tools and tightened through manipulation of a valve assembly (52). |
194 |
Interface disc for a vehicle wheel |
US11992968 |
2006-09-18 |
US08042878B2 |
2011-10-25 |
Pascal Auxerre |
Interface disc for a vehicle wheel, comprising: at least one substantially central attachment element designed to allow the said disc to be attached to a wheel; a plurality of substantially radial arms connected to the attachment elements and extending radially outwards from a substantially central portion of the said disc as far as a substantially peripheral portion of the said disc; an energy absorption surface collaborating with the said arms and configured to form a wall between the said substantially central portion of the disc and its substantially peripheral portion; at least one circumferential reinforcing element collaborating with the said arms and the modulus of which is substantially higher than that of the energy absorption element. |
195 |
SELF-SUPPORTING PNEUMATIC TIRE |
US12955097 |
2010-11-29 |
US20110146871A1 |
2011-06-23 |
Richard Frank Laske; Robert Allen Losey; Thulasiram Gobinath; Samuel Patrick Landers |
The present invention is directed to a self-supporting tire. More specifically, the tire has a carcass, a tread, and a belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of the carcass and radially inward of the tread. The carcass is comprised of a reinforcing ply structure extending between a pair of bead portions and having a geodesic configuration. The tire further includes a pair of sidewalls, each sidewall located radially outward of one of the pair of bead portions, and a pair of inserts located in each sidewall. A first insert and second insert are located between the innerliner and the ply. |
196 |
Manufacturing method for a reinforced liquid elastomer tire |
US11371298 |
2006-03-09 |
US07618568B2 |
2009-11-17 |
Frederick Forbes Vannan |
This invention pertains to a new method for manufacturing tires, an apparatus used with the new method and the article manufactured by the new method. The article is called the reinforced liquid elastomer tire (RLET). The method of manufacture includes placement of reinforcing materials inside a tire molding cavity and subsequently surrounding the reinforcement with a liquid elastomer which encapsulates the reinforcement and takes the outside shape of the tire mold. The liquid elastomer is solidified and the completed RLET is removed from the mold and ready for service. |
197 |
Process for repairing punctured pneumatic tire in tire-rim assembly and repairing system |
US10591185 |
2004-12-22 |
US07587933B2 |
2009-09-15 |
Shinichi Watanabe; Frank Knothe; Gerd Runtsch; Guenter Leister; Frank Klempau |
A punctured pneumatic tire in a tire-rim assembly is repaired by mounting on a vehicle the tire-rim assembly provided with an internal pressure alarm means, said tire comprising an auxiliary load-supporting structure satisfying a requirement that an deformation quantity of the tire in a radial direction thereof at a rim-assembled state under a load corresponding to 90% of a maximum load capacity at an internal tire pressure of zero is within a range of 30-60% of a section height of the tire under no load at the internal tire pressure of zero; detecting a puncture of the tire produced during the running of the tire by the internal pressure alarm means; unavoidably running the punctured tire to a relatively short-range safe place to quickly stop the vehicle; and refilling gas to a given internal pressure by a gas filling means equipped on the vehicle while occluding a punctured hole with a puncture repairing means equipped on the vehicle. |
198 |
Method and device for determining endstage of lifetime of run-flat tire under run-flat state |
US11578059 |
2005-04-05 |
US07543489B2 |
2009-06-09 |
Atsushi Abe; Eishi Ichihara |
The present invention provides a method and device for determining an end stage of lifetime of a run-flat tire under a run-flat state. The method includes the step S1 of monitoring the tire internal pressure on a vehicle equipped with a run-flat tire system comprising run-flat tires and tire information transmitter to determine that the tire starts running under a run-flat state when the tire internal pressure becomes lower than a given internal pressure, the step S2 of measuring the temperature of the tire during running at the run-flat state, the step S3 of calculating a rate of change in temperature per unit time based on the measured temperature value of the tire, and the step S4 of comparing the rate of change with a given negative threshold to determine that the run-flat tire is in an end stage of lifetime under a run-flat state when the rate of change in temperature is smaller than the given threshold. |
199 |
PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE WITH RUNFLAT CHARACTERISTICS |
US12326449 |
2008-12-02 |
US20090139623A1 |
2009-06-04 |
Silvia Kaiser |
A vehicle pneumatic tire with run-flat characteristics is formed of a profiled tread, multilayered belting, an air-tight inner layer, a carcass wound around high-tensile strength cores and core profiles on cores in the bead area, axially from inside to outside as a carcass riser, side walls within which there is at least one reinforcing profile with a crescent-shaped cross section closed annularly over the circumference of the side wall, and a bead reinforcing element with a reinforcement. The bead reinforcing element that is axially inside of the core profile has reinforcements oriented at a 90 degree angle to the tread periphery, and the carcass is configured as a single layer. |
200 |
Runflat tire |
US11881038 |
2007-07-25 |
US20080178981A1 |
2008-07-31 |
Giorgio Agostini; Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce; Christian Kaes; Marc Weydert; Frank Schmitz; Leon Jean Mathias Gregorius |
A pneumatic runflat tire including at least one sidewall insert, the at least one sidewall insert including a heterogenous rubber compound comprising first rubber and second rubber composition phases, wherein the second rubber phase is further vulcanizable. |