| Entries |
| Document | Title | Date |
| 20100065179 | PNEUMATIC TIRE WITH A LENO WEAVE FLIPPER OR CHIPPER - A pneumatic tire includes an axis of rotation, a carcass, a tread, and a belt structure. The carcass has at least one reinforced ply and a reinforcing structure providing a buffer for absorbing shear strain. The tread is disposed radially outward of the carcass. The belt structure is disposed radially between the carcass and the tread. The reinforcing structure comprises at least one layer of an open construction LENO weave fabric having warp yarns extending in the radial direction and weft yarns extending in the circumferential direction. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20120175033 | Rubber Composition and Tire Using Said Composition - A rubber composition based on at least a diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler and a crosslinking system, characterized in that it comprises at least 10 to 150 phr of a platy filler and from 0.01 to 0.3 phr of a metal salt. This composition has good processing and mechanical properties, and also improved oxygen impermeability properties over a wide temperature range, from ambient temperatures when the tire is stationary up to the temperatures of the tire when it is running. According to one preferred embodiment, the rubber composition described above can be used in the tire as a protective elastomer layer in at least one part of the tire. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130032266 | RUBBER REINFORCED ARTICLE WITH VOIDED FIBERS - A reinforced rubber article comprising a rubber article and a fibrous layer embedded into the rubber article. The fibrous layer comprises monoaxially drawn fibers having at least a first layer, where the first layer contains a polymer and a plurality of voids. The voids are in an amount of between about 3 and 15 percent by volume of the first layer. Methods of forming the reinforced rubber article are also disclosed. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130032267 | RUBBER REINFORCED ARTICLE WITH VOIDED FIBERS HAVING VOID-INITIATING PARTICLES - A reinforced rubber article comprising a rubber article and a fibrous layer embedded into the rubber article. The fibrous layer contains monoaxially drawn fibers having at least a first layer, where the first layer contains a polymer, a plurality of void-initiating particles, and a plurality of voids. Methods of forming the reinforced rubber article are also disclosed. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20090165918 | Tire For Heavy Vehicles - A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one ply to the other, forming angles of between 10° and 45° with the circumferential direction, which itself is topped radially by a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by means of two sidewalls. The tire additionally comprises at least in each shoulder a layer of reinforcement elements which are parallel to each other in the layer and are oriented substantially perpendicular relative to the reinforcement elements of the working layer radially adjacent to said additional layer, said additional layer being radially adjacent to the edge of the radially outer working crown layer, and the axially outer end of said additional layer being located at a distance from the equatorial plane of the tire which is equal to the distance between said plane and the end of the working layer to which it is adjacent. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20120180925 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD OF FORMING CIRCUMFERENTIAL BELT LAYER OF THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method of forming at least one circumferential belt layer of a pneumatic tire comprising: winding the strip for a half length of an outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane from a widthwise inner side of the belt end region; winding the strip for the remaining half length while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from a widthwise inner to outer side; winding the strip for the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane; winding the strip for the half length of the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from the widthwise outer to inner side; and winding the strip for the remaining half length along the tire equatorial plane. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120216935 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A belt width of an intersecting belt | 08-30-2012 |
| 20090272477 | Tire for Heavy Vehicles - A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcement elements, which are crossed from one ply to the other, forming angles of between 10° and 45° with the circumferential direction, which itself is topped radially by a tread, said tread being joined to two beads by means of two sidewalls and at least two working layers having different axial widths. At least one first profiled element P of rubber mix separates one working layer from at least one end of a second, axially narrower, layer, said profiled element P being radially separated at least in part from the liner C of said axially narrower working layer by a second profiled element of rubber mix G, said first and second profiled elements of rubber mix P and G and said liner C having secant moduli of elasticity under tension at 10% elongation MP, MG, MC respectively such that MC≧MG>MP, said tire additionally comprising in each shoulder at least one layer of reinforcement elements, which are parallel to each other in the additional layer and are oriented circumferentially, and the axially inner end of said additional layer being radially adjacent to the edge of at least one working crown layer. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20120222791 | LOW ASPECT RATIO SUPER SINGLE TRUCK TIRE - The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire | 09-06-2012 |
| 20110126956 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110284144 | STEEL CORD FOR REINFORCING RUBBER ARTICLE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - Without decreasing the strength in the axial direction of the cord, and without increasing the thickness in the radial direction, a steel cord for reinforcing a rubber article, which improves durability against cut, as well as a construction vehicle tire utilizing the steel cord for reinforcing a rubber article as a reinforcing material is provided. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110290397 | CRIMPED FLAT WIRE AS CORE OF OVAL CORD - A steel cord ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20100012248 | High-performance tire, tread band and crosslinkable elastomeric composition - A tire includes at least one structural element including a crosslinked elastomeric material obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable elastomeric composition including (a) 40 phr to 100 phr of at least one styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer; (b) 0 phr to 60 phr of at least one diene elastomeric polymer other than the styrene/1,3-butadiene copolymer; (c) 60 phr to 100 phr of at least one silica reinforcing filler; (d) 20 phr to 60 phr of at least one RAE-oil (residual aromatic extract). Preferably, the at least one structural element is a tire tread band. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100084068 | Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire has a belt arranged in such a manner that cords are inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction. A quarter portion is set to a portion which is between 50 to 80% of a belt width around a tire equator line, a center portion is set to a portion which is inside than the quarter portion, and a shoulder portion is set to a portion which is outside than the quarter portion. A relation θc>θs>θq is satisfied on the assumption that a cord angle in the quarter portion is set to θq, a cord angle in the center portion is set to θc, and a cord angle in the shoulder portion is set to θs, with regard to the cord angle of the belt with respect to the tire circumferential direction. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20110220263 | Pattern coated cap ply for tire construction - A pneumatic tire has a tread, a carcass with belt plies disposed below the tread, and a cap ply layer between the tread and the belt plies of the carcass. The cap ply is a cap ply tape containing at least one layer of fabric selected from the group consisting of woven, knit, and nonwoven having a first side and a second side, a resorcinol formaldehyde latex (RFL) coating on both the first and second side of the fabric, and a patterned coating of an adhesion promoter on at least a first side of the fabric overlaying a portion of the RFL coating. The tape is wound in a flat helically wound around the belt plies and covered with a tread of the tire. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20090101265 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention provides a pneumatic tire in which the rolling resistance can be reduced without reducing the wear resistance and the durability. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20120193008 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - There is provided a pneumatic tire having excellent uneven wear resistance performance, low rolling resistance and durability of side portion's appearance. The pneumatic tire comprises a carcass as a framework consisting of at least one carcass ply troidally extending between bead portions embedded with a pair of bead cores and turned around the bead cores from an inner side to an outer side in a tire width direction, a belt comprising at least one inclined belt layer and a tread successively disposed on a radially outer side of a crown portion of the carcass, wherein a ratio BD/BW is in a range between 0.01 and 0.04 in a section of the tire in the width direction in a state where the tire is mounted on an application rim, where BD is radius difference between radius at a central portion and radius at an end portion in the tire width direction of the outermost layer of the inclined belt layer and BW is a width of the outermost layer and CSEh is larger than SWh, where CSEh is a shortest distance from an end of a turn-up portion of the at least one carcass ply to a line drawn in parallel with a tire rotation axis at a bead toe and SWh is a shortest distance between a line drawn in parallel with the tire rotation axis at a maximum width position of the tire and the line drawn in parallel with the tire rotation axis at the bead toe. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20110056606 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic radial tire has a pair of opposing bead portions | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110146874 | GEODESIC TIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A method of making a tire comprising the steps of providing a core; forming a first layer of ply by winding a strip of one or more rubber coated cords onto the core in a geodesic pattern extending from a first shoulder to a second shoulder opposite said first shoulder and being tangent to the bead at a location between said first shoulder and said second shoulder. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20090126846 | Tire And Method Of Building Tire - A tire, in which excessively overlapping portions can be made small and excessively overlapping portions on a winding beginning side and on a winding terminating side are not present in the same cross sectional position in a width direction and which is good in tire weight balance and can improve RFV. In the case where a rubber strip material is wound in a first round on a winding beginning side without being inclined in a tire circumferential direction, wound in a second round and after in a state of being inclined to the tire circumferential direction so that feed of a predetermined pitch in a tire width direction is given every round in a part of a region in the tire circumferential direction, wound in the remaining part of the region without being inclined, and wound in a final round on a winding terminating side without being inclined in the tire circumferential direction, phases of the rubber strip material in the second round and after in an inclined region every round are successively shifted in a direction, in which inclination begins a little early every round. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20080289741 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PNEUMATIC TIRE - First, a first belt ply is wound around an outer peripheral surface of a belt drum having a curvature so as to be formed as a tubular shape, and a rubber layer protruding to an outer side than an end portion in a width direction of a belt reinforcing layer is arranged in an outer periphery of an end portion in a width direction of the first belt ply. Further, a second belt ply which is narrower than the first belt ply is wound around an outer periphery of the second belt ply so as to be formed as a tubular shape, and a belt layer is formed in such a manner that the first belt ply and the second belt ply are laminated. The belt reinforcing layer is formed by spirally winding a rubber-coated reinforcing cord around an outer peripheral side of the formed belt layer, and an end portion in a width direction of the belt reinforcing layer is arranged in an outer side than the first belt ply. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20110253279 | TYRE REINFORCED WITH STEEL CORDS COMPRISING FINE FILAMENTS - A tyre includes a carcass structure including at least one carcass ply and a belt structure including at least one belt layer. The carcass ply includes a plurality of metallic cords. Each of the metallic cords includes a plurality of strands. Each strand of the plurality of strands includes a plurality of filaments having a diameter between 0.06 and 0.15 mm. The strands are disposed so as to form a cord structure having a cross section in which a substantially circular layer of outer strands is disposed around a central strand. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110253280 | STEEL CORD FOR REINFORCING RUBBER ARTICLES AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING THE SAME - A steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles in which sheath wires are not deviated and which has an excellent rubber penetration property and a tire which has an excellent durability using the steel cord is provided. | 10-20-2011 |
| 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 |
| 20120031537 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RESIN-EXTENDED ISOPRENE RUBBER, RUBBER COMPOSITION OBTAINED BY THE PROCESS AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention relates to a process for producing a resin-extended isoprene rubber comprising (A) a rubber component containing a natural rubber and/or a synthetic isoprene rubber and (B) a thermoplastic resin, wherein a resin slurry liquid prepared by dispersing the component (B) described above in water is mixed with a latex of the rubber component (A) described above, and then the mixture is coagulated and subjected to drying treatment, a rubber composition containing the resin-extended isoprene rubber obtained by the above process and a pneumatic tire prepared by using the above rubber composition for a member for a tread, and provided are a process for producing a resin-extended isoprene rubber in which a natural rubber and/or a synthetic isoprene rubber and a resin are used and in which the above resin is highly dispersed, a rubber composition which contains the resin-extended isoprene rubber obtained by the above process and which can secure a fracture characteristic and the like and a pneumatic tire prepared by using the above rubber composition. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20100180999 | Pair Of Pneumatic Tires For Two-Wheeled Vehicles - A pair of tyres comprising a front tyre and a rear tyre to be mounted on a front wheel and a rear wheel respectively of a two-wheeled vehicle, in which each of the front and rear tyres includes: a carcass structure having at least one carcass ply, the ends of which are in engagement with respective circumferential annular reinforcing structures; a belt structure applied to the carcass structure at a radially external position; a tread band applied at a radially external position to said belt structure; a pair of sidewalls laterally applied onto opposite sides relative to said carcass structure; and a pair of reinforcing side structures laterally applied at the sidewalls. Each reinforcing structure includes a plurality of cords where at each point of a cord, an angle different from zero is identified which is included between the tangent of the cord direction at that point and the tangent to a circumferential direction of the tyre passing through the point. The angle is constant or varying in a monotonic manner over the whole length of the cord. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110146875 | AIRCRAFT TIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A pneumatic tire comprising a belt structure and a torus shaped carcass having a first inner radius and an outer radius, wherein the carcass is comprised of three or more layers of ply, wherein each layer of ply is formed from a rubberized strip of one or more cords, the strips being wound in an geodesic pattern having the cord extend across the carcass from a first shoulder to a second shoulder in a path that has at least one point tangent to the first inner radius located in the bead area of the tire. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20100116402 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire includes two cross belts having codes forming 5 to 30 degrees to a tire circumferential direction; a circumferential reinforcing layer having a width smaller than the cross belts, and having codes forming 0 to 5 degrees to the tire circumferential direction; and a carcass located inside, in a tire diameter direction, relative to a cross belt being inside among the cross belts. At 100% internal inflation pressure, a distance X1 between an equatorial plane and an outer edge of the circumferential reinforcing layer is 60% to 75% of a distance W between the equatorial plane and an outermost section of the carcass, and at 5% internal inflation pressure, a distance Y between the equatorial plane and a separation section of the carcass and a belt outwardly adjoining the carcass is 95% to 105% of a distance X2 between the equatorial plane and the outer edge. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20080295943 | BELT PACKAGE FOR SUPER SINGLE TRUCK TIRES - A medium truck tire ( | 12-04-2008 |
| 20110303336 | REDUCED WEIGHT AIRCRAFT TIRE - A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure wherein the belt reinforcing structure is a composite belt structure having at least one radially inner spiral layer and at least one zigzag belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of said spiral layer. The zigzag belt width is preferably narrower than the spiral layer. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110315294 | TYRE FOR TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In the manufacture of a tyre, a belt structure is made by means of strip-like segments or elements, each comprising parallel cords embedded in an elastomeric layer, sequentially laid along the circumferential extension of a toroidal support, in such a manner that: each strip-like element is laid in a laying trajectory defining, at each point, a laying angle; at each point of the laying trajectory a laying gap is formed between adjacent strip-like elements, the laying trajectory being formed starting from preselected laying angles on the shoulder and on the crown of the tyre, the laying gap between adjacent strip-like elements varying along at least one section of the laying trajectory between crown and shoulder so as to cause variation of the laying angle and to obtain the preselected angles on the shoulder and on the crown. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120006461 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PNEUMATIC TIRE AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire is provided with a belt reinforcing layer obtained by spirally winding a reinforcing cord, in a tread side of a belt layer arranged in a tread portion. The method comprises a step of laminating a plurality of cylindrical belt plies including a belt cord extending while inclining with respect to a tire circumferential direction so as to form the belt layer, and a step of spirally winding the reinforcing cord on an outer periphery of the belt layer so as to form the belt reinforcing layer. A winding direction of the reinforcing cord is set to an inverse direction to a direction of inclination of the belt cord of the belt ply positioned in an outermost periphery. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120055604 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire of which rolling resistance is reduced without impairing wear resistance. Specifically, the pneumatic tire of the present invention comprises: a tread portion; a pair of side wall portions; a pair of bead portions; a carcass constituted of at least one carcass ply extending in a toroidal shape between bead cores in the respective bead portions; a belt disposed on the outer peripheral side of a crown region of the carcass and formed by at least one inclined belt layer made of cords extending to be inclined with respect to the equatorial plane of the tire; and a tread rubber disposed on the radially outer side of the belt, wherein a ratio of BD/BW satisfies the following formula: (0.062×tire aspect ratio−0.01)| 03-08-2012 | |
| 20120152428 | TIRE AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A tire is provided suppressing air incorporation and raising durability without a detrimental effect on running performance. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20090133794 | Manufacturing method for heavy-duty pneumatic tire and tire manufactured by the same - Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a heavy-duty pneumatic tire by winding a reinforcing belt disposed in a belt layer of a tread with an untopped spiral steel cord, and a tire manufactured by the same. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20120211138 | TIRE FOR HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE HAVING REINFORCED BEAD | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120312440 | REDUCED WEIGHT AIRCRAFT TIRE - A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure wherein the belt reinforcing structure is a composite belt structure having at least one radially inner spiral layer and at least one zigzag belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of said spiral layer. The zigzag belt width is preferably narrower than the spiral layer. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20110120613 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A proper balance between ride comfort and steering stability is achieved. A pneumatic tire ( | 05-26-2011 |
| 20120318425 | TIRE HAVING A CROWN AREA PROVIDED WITH A SUBLAYER COMPRISING A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER - A radial tire for a motor vehicle, having:
| 12-20-2012 |
| 20120318424 | TIRE HAVING A CROWN AREA PROVIDED WITH A SUBLAYER COMPRISING A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER - Radial tire having:
| 12-20-2012 |
| 20120279627 | Tire Comprising at Least Two Dual Layers - A tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed from at least two bilayers of parallel reinforcing elements in a ply, which bilayers are distributed with a constant pitch and crossed from one ply to another, and which do not have a free end at the edges thereof. Within a radial plane, the surface density of reinforcing elements in a region bounded by the geometric centers of four pairwise adjacent reinforcing elements, belonging in pairs to a bilayer, and forming a quadrilateral, is greater at the center of the tire than at the ends of the bilayers. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20110308685 | TYRE FOR TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A belt structure for a two-wheeled vehicle made by means of strip-like segments or elements, each including parallel cords embedded in an elastomeric layer, sequentially laid along the circumferential extension of a toroidal support so as to form a reinforcing layer having a continuous circumferential extension around a geometric rotation axis of the toroidal support, wherein each strip-like element is laid in a laying trajectory defining, at each point, a laying angle; at each point of the laying trajectory a laying gap is formed between adjacent strip-like elements; the laying trajectory is formed starting from preselected laying angles on the shoulder and on the crown of the tyre; the laying gap between adjacent strip-like elements varies along at least one length of said laying trajectory between crown and shoulder so as to cause variation of the laying angle and obtain the preselected angles on the shoulder and on the crown. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20130014878 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A tire casing is formed on an annular toroidally shaped building surface. The tire casing has a cord attachment elastomeric layer extending over the toroidally shaped building surface to a pair of radial inner ends; a first and second bead stack, each bead stack having an axially inner stack and an axially outer stack the axially inner stack attached to one of the radial inner ends of the first elastomeric layer; one or more continuous lengths of first ply cords, and one or more continuous lengths of second ply cords. The one or more continuous lengths of the first ply cords in combination with the one or more continuous lengths of the second ply cords form a bias angled cord reinforced belt structure, the first ply cords forming one cord reinforced sidewall and the second ply cords forming an opposite cord reinforced sidewall. | 01-17-2013 |