| CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Patent applications |
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| 20120112392 | AIR SPRING DEVICE - An air spring device having a folding bellows which protects the rolling fold against contaminants, the folding bellows being fastened to that end of the rolling piston which lies opposite the rolling fold, and surrounding the outer guide at least over the length of the latter. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20110132080 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A CONTACT SURFACE LENGTH OF A VEHICLE TIRE - An apparatus ascertains a contact area length of a vehicle tire. The apparatus has a transmission unit which has a resonator and which is set up to transmit a sensor signal at a defined frequency. A change in the frequency of the sensor signal on the basis of mechanical excitation of the resonator is indicative of a contact area length for the vehicle tire. Furthermore, the apparatus has a contact area length ascertainment unit which is set up to receive the sensor signal and to take the change in the frequency of the sensor signal as a basis for ascertaining the contact area length of the vehicle tire. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110083781 | Bicycle Tire with Reinforcement Layer - The invention relates to bicycle tires with at least one reinforcement layer ( | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110052422 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF A COMPRESSOR - In a method for controlling the operation of a compressor, the compressor is switched off by a controller in order to prevent thermal damage if an estimated temperature value calculated by the controller exceeds an upper threshold value. The controller calculates a cooling function as a state variable utilizing the estimated temperature value, the cooling function representing the chronological course of the cooling of the compressor. The controller determines the cooling function based on at least one first and one second estimated temperature value which are associated with points of the compressor that are at spatial distances to each other. The calculation of the cooling function is based on a temperature difference between the first and second estimated temperature values. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110049819 | LEVEL CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING A LEVEL CONTROL STYSTEM - A method for controlling or regulating a level control system for a motor vehicle including a compressed air source, at least one air spring, a switchable directional control valve associated with the air spring and a master line connecting the compressed air source to the switchable directional control valve. The switchable directional control valve blocking the master line in a normal state thereof and connecting the master line through for filling the air spring in a switching state thereof. The master line is filled with compressed air before filling the air spring until the air pressure in the master line is at least equally as high as a predetermined threshold value, and only thereafter is the switchable directional control valve transferred into the switching state for filling the air spring. A level control system for a motor vehicle is also provided. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100303637 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND USE OF THE APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A COMPRESSOR - A method controls a compressor for delivering a pressure medium into a pressure medium system, for example an air suspension system in a motor vehicle. In the method, the delivery of the pressure medium can be switched on and off as a function of a temperature signal by the compressor temperature being measured by a temperature sensor which is arranged on the compressor and the switching on and off of the compressor is controlled by an electronic control unit. The switching-on time duration and/or the switching-off time duration or the switching-off and/or the switching-on temperature are/is determined from the rise of the compressor temperature which is measured at short time intervals. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100292848 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A CONTROL UNIT FOR HEAT-SENSITIVE ACTUATORS - A method for operating a control unit for heat-sensitive actuators includes first disabling the control unit after a thermal loading, which is calculated on the basis of the computing model, of at least one actuator has reached a threshold. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100096786 | Air Spring - An air spring for a vehicle suspension, in which air spring the bellows is fastened by way of deformable annular components to the periphery of connection parts. The annular component is fastened at one end of the bellows, to the outer periphery of the connection part in axially spaced-apart clamping regions so as to form an encircling cavity, The annular component, on its outer side, is formed with a rolling contour for the bellows. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20090294001 | VEHICLE TIRES HAVING COATED TREAD - Vehicle tires, particularly for commercial vehicles, contain a profiled tread, which is broken down into profiled ribs or block rows by a number of peripheral grooves and is made of a first rubber mixture. A groove base of the peripheral grooves is made of a second rubber mixture, and the modulus of elasticity of the second rubber mixture is less than the modulus of elasticity of the first rubber mixture of the main part of the tread. In particular, the second rubber mixture has a modulus M 100%, which is 5% to 20% less than the modulus M 100% of the first rubber mixture of the main part of the tread. The two rubber mixtures are based on a substantially identical or comparable polymer system. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090283195 | REINFORCEMENT LAYER OF HYBRID CORDS FOR ELASTOMERIC PRODUCTS, PARTICULARLY FOR THE BELT BANDAGE OF PENUMATIC VEHICLE TIRES - A reinforcement layer for elastomeric products, in particular for the belt bandage of pneumatic vehicle tires, are hybrid cords which are arranged generally parallel to one another inside the layer and are composed of a first twisted textile yarn made of a first material and a second twisted textile yarn made of a second material. The ends of both yarns are twisted with each other and the first twisted textile yarn is a polyketone yarn. The reinforcement layer of hybrid cords for elastomeric products, in particular for the belt bandage of pneumatic vehicle tires, has a force-extension behavior that, when using the reinforcement layer as a belt bandage in pneumatic vehicle tires, ensures the simple production of tires, including vulcanization, and a great suitability to high speeds. To this end, the second twisted textile yarn is an aramid yarn. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090272484 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONSTRUCTING A RADIAL TIRE - Device and method for building a radial tire. The device includes a first drum device for building a belt package and a transfer device for transferring the belt package from the first drum device to a second drum device having arranged thereon a carcass tube from at least one airtight inner layer, a carcass play and two bead cores with core profiles. The second drum device is arranged between core clamping devices and is structured and arranged to join the carcass tube and the belt package during expansion of the second drum device. The belt package is contoured or shaped by deformation via the second drum device. This abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090239702 | DEVICE FOR THE VARIABLE DRIVING OF A HOLLOW SHAFT WITH AN INTERNAL SPINDLE - A device for the variable driving of a hollow shaft and an inner shaft or spindle that is supported on the latter and lies inside it, is particularly suited for moving component parts of a tire building machine, using driving devices. The hollow shaft is coupled to the inner shaft or spindle by way of a planetary gear mechanism or a harmonic-drive gear mechanism, which is respectively constructed as a differential-speed gear mechanism. The hollow shaft and the shaft or spindle are made to run synchronously by way of a single driving device. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090196766 | COMPRESSOR UNIT WITH A DAMPED PRESSURE GAUGE - A compressor unit is particularly suitable for compressing air in portable and/or transportable devices. The compressor unit includes a motor, a compressor, and a pressure gauge (manometer). The pressure gauge is connected to the compressor unit through a threaded connection and the supply of the pressure medium to the pressure gauge travels through the threads. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090188598 | RUN-FLAT PNEUMATIC TIRE - A run-flat pneumatic vehicle tire has at least one cross-sectionally crescent-shaped reinforcing profile incorporated in the region of each sidewall and respectively extending at least over a large part of the length of the sidewall. Bead regions with bead cores and bead profiles have at least one bead strip, arranged at least under the bead cores and forming the bead heel. The at least one bead strip, acting together with a rim seat, ensures the seating of the tire on the rim. In order to increase the static friction between the bead heel and the rim, the bead heel is formed of a soft rubber compound with a Shore A hardness of less than 70, at least radially underneath the core, on its outer surface that is facing the rim seat and rests on the rim seat. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090162465 | Method of Producing a Vulcanizing Mold with a Number of Profile Segments that can be Joined Together to Form a Circumferentially Closed Mold, and Vulcanizing Mold - Profile segments of a vulcanizing mold each contain a basic body which has a profiled forming area on an inner side. A multiplicity of bimaterial rods that are aligned parallel to one another are arranged in each profile segment pressing die such that the longitudinal axes of the bimaterial rods are aligned approximately perpendicular to the forming area surface. The bimaterial rods each contain a core of a filling material disposed parallel to a longitudinal axis. A layer surrounding the core is parallel to the longitudinal axis and is formed of loosely bound—together metal powder, and that, to obtain a green profile segment part, the bimaterial rods are pressed in the pressing die and that the green part is subsequently subjected to a sintering process, by which the filling material can be removed, so that micro channels, that are arranged approximately perpendicular to the forming area remain. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090139623 | PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE WITH RUNFLAT CHARACTERISTICS - 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. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090126874 | SUPPLY DEVICE FOR A TIRE-BUILDING DRUM - A supply device for a tire-building drum, in particular for a tire-belt drum for building a multilayer tire-belt package for a pneumatic tire, where a plurality of layers of different or differently treated, substantially strip-like pieces of material web are, in succession, placed on, rolled onto, and bonded to one another on the tire-building drum. The supply device has cutting devices in which cut-to-length pieces of material web are formed and then transported to the tire-building drum by a drum supply device, which has two drum feed belts. Two pairs of cutting devices are disposed mutually above one another and assigned to the drum feed belts. The cutting devices are displaceable relative to the drum feed belts such that, in the backward receptive position, the drum feed belts can be brought into active contact in alternation with one of the pairs of cutting devices. The pairs of cutting devices are coupled to advancer belts that are equally arranged in pairs and, together with the cutting devices, can be positioned individually in front of the drum feed belts. The advancer belts and the drum feed belts are laterally moveable with respect to one another. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090095390 | Method for Producing a Tread Rubber for a Vehicle Tire, in Particular a Pneumatic Vehicle Tire - A process for producing a tread for a tire with a radially inner layer composed of a first rubber material and with a radially outer second layer composed of a second rubber material and forming the ground-contact surface of the pneumatic tire. The first rubber material has higher electrical conductivity than the second rubber material, and where, in a form of a web axially dividing the second layer around the periphery of the tire, the first rubber material extends radially outwards through the second layer as far as the ground-contact surface. A ply of the first and second layers are constructed radially one on the other, on a rotationally symmetric construction surface, on one of the two axial sides of the web to be produced. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090084490 | Device for Turning up a Tire-Building Component on a Tire-Building Drum - An apparatus for upturning a tire-building component on a tire-building drum has a roller lever. To provide an apparatus which is capable of upturning a tire-building component on a tire-building drum, and which achieves the upturn of the tire-building component without defects, in particular unintended creasing in the side wall, it is proposed that, during the procedure of preparation for upturning, a spacer provides separation between the roller and the segment in such a way that the roller is in essence in contact exclusively with the tire-building component. The roller therefore rolls along the tire-building component. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090050257 | Method and Device for Producing a Tread for a Vehicle Tire - A tread for a vehicle tire, such as a pneumatic vehicle tire, is provided with an electrically conducting layer axially inside a portion of a first, radially outer rubber layer of the tread. The electrically conductive layer extends from a second, radially inner rubber layer of the tread on the radially inner side of the tread rubber material up to a ground contact surface of the tread. The rubber material of the electrically conducting layer and the rubber material of the radially inner rubber layer of the tread have a higher electrical conductivity than the rubber material of the radially outer rubber layer. First, a first rubber layer of higher electrical conductivity is formed over the circumference of the vehicle tire, and an accumulation of rubber material of higher electrical conductivity is built to extend over the circumference of the vehicle tire in a position in the region of axial extent of the layer of rubber material of higher electrical conductivity that is intended to extend up to the ground contact surface in the finished vehicle tire. Then the accumulation of rubber material is shaped to form a web, radially outwards from the inner rubber layer, and in its cross-sectional planes containing the axis of the vehicle tire a predetermined cross-sectional contour. Then the outer rubber layer of lower electrical conductivity is built on the radially outer surface of the first rubber layer, which adjoins the shaped web of rubber material of higher conductivity axially on both sides, and the tread profile is shaped and vulcanized. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20080295946 | Pneumatic Vehicle Tire with Reinforced Tread - A vehicle tire contains a tread part, a bead region which is radially formed inside the tread part and having a bead core, a bead filler formed radially outside the bead core, and a bead reinforcing layer extending over a periphery of the vehicle tire and containing at least one resistance carrier spirally wound radially outwardly from the inside towards the periphery. A further bead reinforcing strip is formed radially inside the bead core, the further bead reinforcing strip extending axially over the entire axial length of the bead core and being radially outwardly folded back towards the two axial outer sides of the bead core. The further bead reinforcing strip having a first folded-back section extending up to a radial extension height from a vertex of the wheel rim and a second folded-back section up to a radial extension height from the vertex X of the wheel rim. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080223671 | Wheel-Guiding Pneumatic Spring Damper Unit - A pneumatic spring and damper unit ( | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080223124 | Method for the Indirect Tire Pressure Monitoring - Method for the indirect tire pressure monitoring in which an analysis of the natural oscillation behavior of at least one tire is performed and at least one pressure loss analysis variable (f | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080196811 | Method for Producing a Belt Package for a Pneumatic Vehicle Tire - A belt package for a pneumatic vehicle tire has at least two belt plies. The belt plies are built up in at least two sub-packages, which are automatically placed on a belt drum and automatically spliced independently of one another. The sub-packages are then joined together to form the complete belt package. | 08-21-2008 |
