The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Frederick William Miller

Michael Alois Kolowski

Stephanie Carol Brown

Efimia Ellen Rohweder

Anthony J Scarpitti

Keith Carl Trares

Donald W Gilliam

Andy Ngoc Hoang

Paul Bryan Maxwell

Richard L Galante

William M Hopkins

Darrell E Covert

Sean David Montag

Anthony John Fierro

Jay Kevin Lawrence

Robert A Brightwell

Terry John Waibel

Marc Christopher Nowacki

Kevin Christopher Legge

Loran C Lopp, Jr

Ray Allison Young

John Kevin Clark

Ronald Thomas Harris

Kurt Jon Bergstrom

James Cletus Sykora

John Robert Kullman

Herbert Hedges Schad, Deceased

Dimitrios Verginis

Herbert H Schad, Jr, Deceased

A pneumatic radial tire combination for four-wheeled automobile or light truck vehicles. The tire combination has a pair of front steer position tires and a pair of rear position tires. The front steer position tire has a footprint when the tire is normally inflated for normal load that has a footprint shape factor of greater than 1.00 at a 50% load, and about 1.00 at both 85% load and 100% load, the footprint shape factor being defined as the maximum circumferential extent of the tire's footprint at the centerplane of the tire's footprint width divided by the average of the circumferential extent of the tire's footprint width as measured at 40% of the footprint from both sides of the central plane of the footprint. The rear position tire footprint, when the tire is normally inflated for normal load, has a footprint shape factor of about 1.00 at 50% load, and 1.00 or less than 1.00 at 85% load and 100% load when measured similar to the method described for the front position tires.

Footprints for nonrotatable automobile and light truck tires

A pneumatic radial tire combination for four-wheeled automobile or light truck vehicles. The tire combination has a pair of front steer position tires and a pair of rear position tires. The front steer position tire has a first tread arc when the tire is normally inflated for normal load but unloaded, of decreasing radii extending toward the lateral edges and a straight line drawn between the intersection of the tread arc curvature and the centerplane is inclined at an angle &thgr; of greater than 5&deg; relative to a tangent line L, L being tangent to the tread arc at the centerplane and parallel to the axis of rotation R. The rear tire 20 when similarly measured has a tread arc having an angle &thgr; of less than 5&deg;.

Front tires and rear tires for automobile or light truck

On/off road radial pneumatic light truck or automobile tire

Tire tread

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Akron, OH, United States of America

Frederick William Miller