101 |
Pneumatic Tire |
US15024777 |
2014-04-15 |
US20160243904A1 |
2016-08-25 |
Atsushi Tanno; Hayato Sakamoto |
The present technology provides a pneumatic tire having a mechanical fastener member for attaching an object with specific functionality to an inner surface of the pneumatic tire, particularly, a pneumatic tire such that, as the pneumatic tire rolls, the object with the specific function attached by the mechanical fastener member can be effectively prevented from executing rotating motion about the mechanical fastener member as a rotation central axis. The pneumatic tire of the present technology has a first member of a mechanical fastener separable into two members, disposed on the tire inner surface. On the tire inner surface around the mechanical fastener member, a recessed flat surface region is formed as a recessed portion having a step from peripheral portions of the recessed portion. |
102 |
RUN-FLAT TIRE |
US14527145 |
2014-10-29 |
US20160121664A1 |
2016-05-05 |
Young Chul PARK |
A run-flat tire ensures run-flat durability with a reduced weight. A tire radial outermost carcass ply of two or more carcass plies has tire widthwise inner ends in a crown portion. A bead filler and side reinforcing rubber have an overlapping part in the tire width direction. In a cross section of the run-flat tire in the tire width direction in a state where the run-flat tire is attached to an applicable rim, filled to a specified internal pressure, and placed under no load, a thickness d1 of a sidewall portion at a midpoint in the tire radial direction between a maximum width position of the run-flat tire and a tire radial outermost position of a bead core is greater than a thickness d2 of the sidewall portion at a midpoint in the tire radial direction between the maximum width position of the run-flat tire and a tread edge. |
103 |
Runflat device and a method for fitting the same |
US13138972 |
2010-05-07 |
US09242514B2 |
2016-01-26 |
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). |
104 |
Run-flat tire |
US13660009 |
2012-10-25 |
US09199515B2 |
2015-12-01 |
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. |
105 |
PNEUMATIC RADIAL TIRE |
US14376767 |
2013-02-06 |
US20150000813A1 |
2015-01-01 |
Takuya Yoshimi |
A pneumatic radial tire comprising a side reinforcing rubber layer 5 having a crescent shaped cross-section arranged on the inside of a carcass 4 at a side wall portion 2, and a belt reinforcing layer 9 which is formed by spirally winding a strip which is formed by covering a polyester cord with rubber with respect to the tire circumferential direction. The polyester cord taken out from pneumatic radial tire satisfies that the ply twist coefficient α1 and the cable twist coefficient α2 represented by the following formulae: α1=N1×(0.125×D1/ρ)0.5×10−3 α2=N2×(0.125×D2/ρ)0.5×10−3 are 0.1 to 0.4 and 0.1 to 0.45, respectively, and the initial tensile resistance degree is 7 to 20 GPa, and the adhesion level of the polyester cord in a residual adhesion evaluation method after an adhesive agent treatment is 5 N/cord or higher. |
106 |
RUN-FLAT PNEUMATIC TIRE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD |
US14018402 |
2013-09-04 |
US20140000790A1 |
2014-01-02 |
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. |
107 |
RUBBER LAMINATE, RUN-FLAT TIRE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE |
US13984134 |
2012-02-08 |
US20130312890A1 |
2013-11-28 |
Masashi Iwata; Norihisa Kano; Kazuhiro Maekawa; Jeeyoung Oh |
Provided are: a rubber laminate having high adhesion between a rubber member including a non-diene rubber and a rubber member including a diene rubber; a run-flat tire obtained by using the rubber laminate, having high adhesion between a side-reinforcing rubber layer and an inner liner, with excellent run-flat durability; and a pneumatic tire including a color layer having high adhesion force to a side rubber while being excellent in stain resistance. The rubber laminate is obtained by laminating a rubber member A including a non-diene rubber and a rubber member B including a diene rubber on each other, the rubber member A and the rubber member B containing a vulcanization accelerator of the same type. |
108 |
Pneumatic Tire |
US13845616 |
2013-03-18 |
US20130248072A1 |
2013-09-26 |
Kenji Horiuchi |
In a pneumatic tire, a height from a turned-up edge of a carcass layer is not more than 10 mm, a distance from a tire outer surface to the carcass layer is not less than 50% of the total gauge, a height of the bead filler is from 50% to 80% of a tire cross-section height, a cross-sectional area ratio VB/VR of the bead filler to a side reinforcing layer is not less than 0.4 and not more than 0.6, a hardness HsB of the bead filler is not less than 65 and not more than 80, and the hardness HsR of the side reinforcing layer is not less than 75 and not more than 85, a size relationship between the hardness HsB and the hardness HsR is HsB≦HsR, a value TB of tan δ is not more than 0.06, and a value TR of tan δ is not more than 0.05. |
109 |
BALLISTIC RESILIENT RUN-FLAT TIRE, KIT AND METHOD THEREOF |
US13405753 |
2012-02-27 |
US20130220507A1 |
2013-08-29 |
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 7.62×54 R 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. |
110 |
Run-flat tire |
US12224334 |
2007-04-25 |
US08376008B2 |
2013-02-19 |
Naohiko Kikuchi; Kazuo Hochi |
The present invention provides a run-flat tire that can improve both of ride quality and run-flat performance. The run-flat tire of the present invention comprises a sidewall-reinforcing layer prepared by using a rubber composition comprising non-metallic short fibers having an average fiber diameter of 1 to 100 μm and an average fiber length of 0.1 to 20 mm in an amount of 5 to 120 parts by weight on the basis of 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber, the non-metallic short fibers being oriented in the circumferential direction of the tire. |
111 |
Lubricant for run flat tire system |
US12445954 |
2006-12-04 |
US08342217B2 |
2013-01-01 |
Brian R. Bergman; Elizabeth L. Hotaling |
Lubricant compositions as well as methods and articles utilizing the lubricant compositions that comprise a polyoxyalkene as a lubricating agent, between 4 wt. % and 7.5 wt. % of silica as a thickening agent and an inorganic thixotropic-enhancing metal compound added in an amount of, for example, at least 20 ppm, by weight or alternatively, between 1 ppm and 2 wt. %. The silica may be fumed silica. Examples of the metal compound include KOH, NaOH, KCl, CaCl2, MgCl2, CaO, MgO, Mg(OH)2 or combinations thereof. A tire is also included, comprising a radially inner face designed to be opposite a wheel rim on which it is designed to be mounted, wherein the radially inner face is provided with the lubricant composition described above. |
112 |
PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH COMPOSITE INNERLINER |
US13181773 |
2011-07-13 |
US20120160388A1 |
2012-06-28 |
Christian Jean-Marie Kaes; Gary Robert Burg; Neil Phillip Stuber; Brian Richard Koch; Christopher David Dyrlund; Laurent Luigi Domenico Colantonio |
A pneumatic radial ply runflat tire is described. The tire has a carcass structure having at least one radial carcass ply, two bead regions, two sidewalls, each sidewall having an upper sidewall portion that connects to the shoulders and being reinforced by an insert, a belt structure between the tread and the carcass, and an air impermeable inner liner formed of a butyl rubber located radially inward of the carcass structure wherein the air impermeable inner liner extends from a first shoulder region to a second shoulder underneath the crown portion of the tire, and does not extend from the shoulder to the bead portion of the tire. |
113 |
SIDEWALL SHEAR DECOUPLING LAYER |
US13141017 |
2008-12-22 |
US20110253282A1 |
2011-10-20 |
Benjamin I. Kaplan; Fanny Hosdez; Sèbastien Rigo |
A pneumatic tire having pairs of shoulder section and bead section shear layers positioned on at least one axial side of the carcass layer. Examples include one or more of the shear layers constituted of an elastomer composition having a modulus of elongation at 10% (MA1O) of no greater than 110% of the lowest MA1O of all elastomer compositions constituting the sidewall components that are positioned outward of an axially-inward side of the carcass layer and/or constituted of a short-fiber reinforced elastomer composition having an MA1O of between 25 MPa and 100 MPa and/or the bead section shear layers constituted of an elastomer composition having an MA1O of no greater than 110% of the highest MA1O of all elastomer compositions constituting the sidewall bead section components. Exemplary shoulder section and bead section shear layers in a pinch shocked region are opposite across an interior of the tire. |
114 |
HIGH TWIST POLYESTER CARCASS PLY FOR A PNEUMATIC TIRE |
US12115585 |
2008-05-06 |
US20090277554A1 |
2009-11-12 |
Yves Donckels; Serge Julien Auguste Imhoff |
A pneumatic radial runflat tire includes a pair of parallel annular beads, a carcass ply structure, a belt reinforcement structure, a tread, and a pair of sidewalls. The carcass ply structure comprises a polyester fabric with a cord construction of 2200 dtex/2 8.5/8.5 tpi with a cord density of between 16 and 28 epi. The belt reinforcement structure is disposed radially outward of the carcass ply structure in a crown area of the tire. The tread is disposed radially outward of the belt reinforcement structure. The pair of sidewalls comprise part of the carcass ply structure. The pair of sidewalls is disposed between the tread and the pair of parallel annular beads. |
115 |
Interface Disc for a Vehicle Wheel |
US11992968 |
2006-09-18 |
US20090242093A1 |
2009-10-01 |
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. |
116 |
MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PNEUMATIC TIRE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE |
US12298252 |
2007-04-24 |
US20090095407A1 |
2009-04-16 |
Toshinobu Kobayashi |
Reinforcing rubber which constitutes a reinforcing rubber layer in a pneumatic tire 10 is formed by winding a plurality of beltlike reinforcing rubber sheets adapted to have almost the same cross-sectional area and cross-sectional shape around a forming drum over its entire periphery while being shifted in the axial direction of the forming drum such that at least portions thereof in the width direction of the tire overlap each other over the whole periphery of the forming drum and by separately jointing both longitudinal ends of the respective reinforcing rubber sheets. As a result, a pneumatic tire with improved run-flat durability without hindering comfortable riding can be formed while hindrances to manufacture are minimized. |
117 |
Run-Flat Tire |
US12224334 |
2007-04-25 |
US20090020203A1 |
2009-01-22 |
Naohiko Kikuchi; Kazuo Hochi |
The present invention provides a run-flat tire that can improve both of ride quality and run-flat performance. The run-flat tire of the present invention comprises a sidewall-reinforcing layer prepared by using a rubber composition comprising non-metallic short fibers having an average fiber diameter of 1 to 100 μm and an average fiber length of 0.1 to 20 mm in an amount of 5 to 120 parts by weight on the basis of 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber, the non-metallic short fibers being oriented in the circumferential direction of the tire. |
118 |
Pneumatic run-flat tire |
US11109361 |
2005-04-19 |
US07448422B2 |
2008-11-11 |
Michael Spiro Markoff; David Charles Poling; Samuel Patrick Landers |
A pneumatic run-flat tire has a bead configuration wherein the axially inner end is radially inward of the axially outer end of the bead. The sidewall of the tire, from the bead region to the upper sidewall is reinforced to form a pillar support in the sidewall. The bead configuration and the pillar reinforcement enable the tire to lock itself onto a tire rim during low pressure operation and be self-supporting. |
119 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING THE RANGE OF RUN-FLAT TIRES |
US11850385 |
2007-09-05 |
US20080077293A1 |
2008-03-27 |
Patrick Fitzgibbons |
A method and system for extending the range of run-flat tires by providing ride height control. When the vehicle has a damaged tire or tires the ride height of an appropriate suspension system(s) is capable of being adjusted to achieve a level attitude for the vehicle thus preventing destructive loads from being placed on the damaged run-flat tire(s). |
120 |
Process for Repairing Punctured Pneumatic Tire in Tire-Rim Assembly and Repairing System |
US10591185 |
2004-12-22 |
US20070289371A1 |
2007-12-20 |
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. |