The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

David Ray Hubbell

Marc Christopher Nowacki

Daniel Christian Shavers

George Frank Balogh

Michael Stefan Skurich

Keith Eric Grabo

Warren L Croyle

Daniel Ray Beha

Lisa Marie Missik-Gaffney

Walter Dale Allen

Francesco Sportelli

Teresa Diane Martter

Gregory Alan Schessler

Todd James Spencer

Matthew Jeremy List

John David Wilson

Jonathan James Shondel

Max Harold Dixon

Joseph Thomas Janesh

Jeffrey Leon Sevart

Joseph Henry Laco

Christopher Paul Johenning

Gilles Bonnet

Arthur Allen Goldstein

John Janis Taube

Annette Lechtenboehmer

Andrew Frederick Weimer

Piotr Janusz Wesolowski

Michael David Kachner

Christopher Alan Mantheiy

Phaniraj Muthigi

Colleen Anne Nowacki

Joseph Ghana Dancy

John Robert Kullman

Justin Barker

Christopher Michael Smith

Brandy Elizabeth Moorhead

Vaidyanathan Sankar

Steven Kris Herman Laermans

A heavy-duty tire is described herein. The heavy duty tire includes a carcass, a tread located radially outward of the carcass, and a tread having a plurality of lugs. The lugs extend radially outward from an inner tread and are located between the first and second lateral tread edges. The tread further includes a first row of lugs extending from the tread lateral edge axially inwards toward the centerplane, and a second row of lugs extending from the opposite tread lateral edge and axially inwards toward the centerplane. The lugs of the first and second rows are separated by a plurality of shoulder grooves, wherein the first row of lugs are aligned with the second row of lugs, a center row of lugs located between a first and second offset lug, wherein all of the lugs in each row are aligned circumferentially. wherein said tire has a molded base width in the range of 44-50 mm. The heavy-duty tire wherein the shoulder drop ranges from 64 mm to 120. Wherein the gauge of the shoulder wedge ranges from 70-89 mm, and more preferably in the range of 75-85 mm.

Heavy duty tire

Tire

A tire has an axis of rotation. The tire includes two inextensible annular bead structures for attachment to a vehicle rim, a carcass-like structure having at least one reinforced ply, the carcass-like structure being wound about the two bead structures, a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass-like structure, and a shear band structure disposed radially between the carcass-like structure and the tread. The two bead structures include at least one layer of a three dimensional fabric including a tear drop frame structure and open cells defined by the tear drop frame structure.

Lightweight tire

A pneumatic tire includes an axis of rotation, a carcass having at least one reinforced ply and a reinforcing structure providing a buffer for absorbing shear strain, a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass, and a belt structure disposed radially between the carcass and the tread. The reinforcing structure includes at least one layer of a three dimensional fabric including a frame structure of fabric and open cells defined by the frame structure.

Pneumatic tire with a three dimensional component

A pneumatic radial tire has a chipper in place of a traditional apex, the chipper located between a carcass main portion and turnup portion. The chipper layer may be composed of a chopped carbon fiber and aramid composite reinforced elastomeric layer. The tire sidewalls have a radial height SH and a section width SW located within a range of 0.4 to 0.44 of the sidewall radial height SH measured from the bead core. The section width SW may further be located within a range of 0.1&#x2033; to 0.3&#x2033; inches from a radially outward end of the chipper layer in a radial direction. The tread may of a dual layer construction, having a radially inward first layer formed of a relatively low rolling resistance compound and a radially outward second layer formed of a compound containing silica.

Pneumatic tire

A pneumatic radial tire having a circumferentially extending equatorial plane of the tire, the tire comprising a carcass, a tread radially outward of the carcass, the carcass comprising at least one carcass reinforcing ply, opposing bead portions, and opposing sidewalls, the carcass reinforcing ply having a main portion extending between the opposing bead portions and a pair of turnup portions, each turnup portion extending from one end of the main portion, each bead portion having a bead core, and a reinforcement cavity outward of each bead core, the cavity located between the main portion and one turnup portion of the at least one reinforcing ply, the tire characterized by:

By shifting the peak height of the tread on one side of the tire from the centerline (CL), for a tire intended for cambered use on a vehicle and/or exposure to lateral loading, improvements in the footprint shape, pressure distribution, area and footprint shape factor (FSF) are obtained. In an illustrated embodiment, 0.127 cm to 5 cm (deep) of mold material are removed from one side of the centerline (CL) of the crown in a conventional mold, at 15% to 85% of the distance from the centerline to the shoulder area of the mold (one-half inch to five and one-half inches in the illustrated tires), to obtain a mold shape having the designated change in tread peak height.

Method of forming pneumatic radial tire including tread having asymmetric profile

A radial ply pneumatic tire has a unique cross sectional profile. The tires rum flange width W is greater than the tread width TW and the maximum section width SW is located radially less than 50% of the section height SH as measured from the nominal rim diameter ND.

Radial pneumatic light truck or automobile tire

A method for characterizing the level of noise generated by a tire having a specific footprint configuration through analyzing the shape of the tire's footprint and taking into account the tire's aspect ratio. The method includes: a) measuring the noise level if the solution to the calculation is inside of a predetermined range; or b) reconfiguring the footprint if the solution to the calculation is outside of a predetermined range. The advantage of this method is that a tire designer can design a tire, taking into account the noise level.

Method for characterizing noise level of rotating tire

Tire tread

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David Ray Hubbell