The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Daniel Ignatius Kowalski, Jr

Italo Marziale Sinopoli

Ray Allison Young

Charles Elmer Hamiel

Terry John Waibel

Jeffrey W Kahrs

James Oral Hunt

Charles W Winebrenner

Load Range C or D radial light truck tires have plies reinforced with metallic cords. At least one of the plies has an inch strength of at least 11,500 N/mm per in. and is reinforced with 0.32 mm-0.40 mm filament diameter ultra tensile steel cords at 17-24 ends per inch. The ply may be located in any of the tire components such as the belt, carcass, chipper, or chafer.

Load range C and D tires including metallic cord belt layer of specified inch strength

Load Range C and D radial light truck tires have plies reinforced with 2X or 3X metallic cords. In one embodiment, the plies are two steel cord belt plies and the cords of at least one of the two belt plies has a filament diameter d of about 0.32 mm to 0.40 mm and either a 2X construction and a filament tensile strength in the range of 6908-10740d to 14238-25590d or a 3X construction and a filament tensile strength in the range of 4998-8140d to 9616-17370d. The cords may be located in components such as the belt, carcass, chipper, chafer, etc.

Load range C and D tires including metallic cords of 2X or 3X construction

A multi-layer circumferentially reinforced radial pneumatic light truck tire having a belt structure of at least two layers of 2+2x.35ST cord for Load Range E.

Pneumatic radial tire including steel belt cords of 2+2 ST construction

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Stow, OH, United States of America

Daniel Ignatius Kowalski, Jr