Frank Jenne

Title: Frank Jenne: Tire-Tread Innovation

Introduction

Frank Jenne is an inventor associated with Ingolstadt, Germany, and Continental Aktiengesellschaft. His recorded patent concerns a pneumatic tire tread designed to combine directional water-channeling features with broad, angled grooves. The available information identifies 1 patent.

Latest Patents

Jenne’s listed patent, “Pneumatic Tire Including Circumferential Grooves and Slanting Grooves,” describes a directional tread for motor vehicles. Its shoulder regions contain rows of blocks, while a central region spans at least 60 percent of the tread width and is free of circumferential grooves.

The central region features V-shaped running rills that open into the circumferential grooves, with their peaks positioned near the tire’s equator line. Straight, slanting grooves cross at least three successive rills. These grooves run at a shallower angle to the equator line than the V-shaped rills, are the widest channels in the tread profile, and are offset between the two sides of the central region.

Career Highlights

The available details connect Jenne’s tire-tread invention with Continental Aktiengesellschaft. The patent’s design focuses on the arrangement and relative dimensions of tread channels, including the V-shaped rills and wider slanting grooves.

Collaborations

Katja Hanebuth and Markus Metz are identified as Jenne’s coworkers. The supplied information does not specify their roles in the patent or whether they collaborated on its development.

Conclusion

Frank Jenne’s recorded patent presents a directional tire-tread design that organizes V-shaped rills and offset slanting grooves across a broad central region. The invention is associated with Continental Aktiengesellschaft and reflects a specific approach to pneumatic tire tread geometry.