| CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBH Patent applications |
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| 20120060996 | REINFORCEMENT LAYER MADE OF STEEL CORDS FOR BELTS OF PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRES - Reinforcement layer for pneumatic vehicle tires that includes reinforcements formed by one of filaments or cords made of steel that are disposed substantially parallel to and spaced apart from one another and are embedded in rubber material. A cord is formed by a maximum of two filaments twisted together and all of the filaments of the reinforcements have a diameter of less than 0.24 mm and a maximum of two filaments are twisted in each case to form a cord. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120024444 | PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE - A pneumatic vehicle tire, in particular for heavy commercial trucks, having a tread with a number of circumferential grooves which run in the circumferential direction and which separate profile positives, such as block rows or profile ribs, from one another. The circumferential grooves are each bounded by a groove base and two groove edges. In order to effectively prevent the occurrence of tears at the groove base of the circumferential grooves, in particular at the groove base of the circumferential grooves which extend on the shoulder side, the groove base extends, viewed in cross section and in the axial direction, at an angle of inclination of 3 degrees to 15 degrees with respect to an envelope which encompasses the outer faces of the profile positives. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110262572 | DEVICE FOR VULCANIZING VEHICLE TIRES USING A HEATING PRESS - A device for vulcanizing vehicle tires uses a heating press and an internal bladder that is supplied with vaporous heating medium. In order to assure that the measurement of the vulcanization temperature is effected at the relevant locations of the internal heater, there is provided a temperature sensor in the form of a radiation thermometer or pyrometer that is disposed in the bladder cavity. The pyrometer takes an indirect temperature measurement for at least one location on the interior wall of the bladder by measuring a radiant energy emitted from the interior of the bladder. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110240199 | PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR VEHICLES - A pneumatic tire for vehicles has a belt and a reinforcing material layer embedded in at least one rubber mixture. The belt is made of a material that is selected from the group of steel, aramid, carbon fiber, natural fiber, magnesium, and magnesium compounds. The reinforcing material layer is a single-ply or multiple-ply layer that is oriented at an angle between 0 degrees and 5 degrees to the circumferential direction, and is made of at least one polyester thread and/or polyester cord. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110203738 | DEVICE FOR BUILDING A TIRE CARCASS FOR A VEHICLE TIRE - A device for constructing a carcass for a vehicle tire. In order to provide a device with which the core centering devices can be expanded variably in diameter, wherein the core centering devices can be used at the same time for producing small tire dimensions, and with which at the same time the diameter of the diaphragm supports can be moved by a motor. The bladder support on the side of the movement box is connected to the shaft of the movement box in a fixed manner, with the axial distance for determining the carcass width of the vehicle tire to be produced between the diaphragm support and building drum being defined by positioning of the movement box in the axial direction. The bladder support on the side of the spindlebox is movably attached to the shaft. The axial distance for determining the carcass width of the vehicle tire to be produced between the bladder support and the building drum is defined by positioning in the axial direction. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110203709 | PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE - A pneumatic vehicle tire includes a tread rubber that is divided into tread elements, such as tread bars or circumferential ribs, by circumferential grooves and transverse grooves. A groove flank of a circumferential groove facing away from an outer shoulder runs at a first angle of inclination relative to the radial direction, and a groove flank opposite the groove flank facing away from the outer shoulder includes two flank portions respectively running at a second angle of inclination and a third angle of inclination relative to the radial direction. The radially inner flank portion has elevations that form a ribbed structure. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110127361 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING UNVULCANIZED RUBBERIZED STEEL CORD MATERIAL FOR TIRES - A method separates a rubber material and a steel chord material in tires, tire blanks and carcasses from one another in a simple manner. In the method, rubberized steel chord is fed to a separating device. Then a powdered separating material is fed to the separating device. The steel chord and the rubber are separated by way of interactions between rotating tools and the separating material in the separating device. The separated rubber particles are encapsulated by the separating material. The rubber particles are discharged from an opening in the separating device. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110071245 | Rubber Mixture with Low Heat Build-Up and Method of Producing Tire Parts - A rubber mixture is ideally suited for producing pneumatic vehicle tires, belts, and straps. The rubber mixture has the following composition: 95-100 phr at least of a natural or synthetic polyisoprene, 0-5 PHR at least of an additional polar or non-polar rubber, 1-10 phr silicic acid, 20-40 phr at least of a carbon black having an iodine fraction less than or equal to 120 g/kg and a DBP fraction greater than or equal to 90 cm3/100 g, 0.1-5 phr at least of a plasticizer oil, 0.1-10 phr zinc oxide, and 2-100 phr of other additives. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110048603 | PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE FOR COMMERCIAL UTILITY VEHICLE - A pneumatic vehicle tire for commercial utility vehicles has a tread with at least two circumferential grooves which run in the circumferential direction and divide the tread into circumferential ribs. A gross tread volume is defined by an envelope running in the tread parallel to the periphery of the tread and touching the lowest circumferential groove(s) from the inside radially, together with the periphery of the tread and flank portions at the shoulders. A groove volume is defined by all the grooves in the tread. The groove volume in the tread is between 1% and 10% of the gross tread volume. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100282387 | TIRE VULCANIZING MOLD AND TIRE PRODUCED WITH THE TIRE VULCANIZING MOLD - A tire vulcanizing mold has two or more mold segments with forming surfaces jointly defining the tread rubber profile of a tire to be vulcanized and with a surface area with elevations, such as webs, wherein the surface area forms the circumferential tread rubber profile area of the tire and wherein the elevations impress the depressions, such as grooves, in the tread of the tire. A tire vulcanized with the vulcanizing mold may be a motorcycle tire or an ultra-high performance tire. Certain regions of the forming surfaces of the mold segments that form the tread rubber profile are provided with a roughness, such that those regions of the vulcanizing mold which form the circumferential tread rubber profile area are provided with the roughness. The elevations, on the other hand, which impress the depressions are not provided with this roughness but they are instead smooth. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100166993 | REINFORCEMENT LAYER MADE OF HYBRID CORDS FOR ELASTOMERIC PRODUCTS - A reinforcement layer for elastomeric products is formed of hybrid cords that are arranged substantially parallel to each other within the layer. The hybrid cords 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 the two yarns are twisted with each other. The first twisted textile yarn is a polyketone yarn and the second twisted textile yarn is a polyester yarn. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100139832 | Pneumatic Vehicle Tire with Protected Sidewall Markings - A pneumatic vehicle tire has a profiled tread, two side walls, and at least one protective rib running on the surface of the side wall over its circumference. The protective rib is disposed above and with a spacing distance from a side wall marking or a side wall decoration. The protective rib has a lower negative contour with at least one recess, which is configured to correspond to the positive contour of the side wall marking or side wall decoration facing the protective rib, such that the protective rib at least partially accommodates the upper half of the side wall marking or side wall decoration in the recess. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100078106 | Pneumatic Vehicle Tire - A pneumatic vehicle tire has peripheral grooves with outer edges on a tread periphery, running peripherally parallel and substantially linearly. A groove base path on a groove base is wavy or zigzags and narrower than a peripheral groove. Projections of groove sides assigned to inward pointing corners of the groove base path are parts or sections of bodies with a base surface having at least four free sides. The base surface runs near the periphery at an angle of at least 60° and is inclined to the radial. The base surface has boundary surfaces running from the free sides toward the groove base at a smaller angle and being inclined to the radial. Two side surfaces run between adjacent projections in peripheral direction, toward the groove base path and have an angle of inclination to the radial larger than the boundary surface angle and smaller than the base surface angle. | 04-01-2010 |
