The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Michael Stefan Skurich

Shannon Joseph Hughes

Jung Wan Cho

Jonathan James Shondel

Karl Eric Sundkvist

Michael Joseph Weber

Richard Mark Wieland

Zachary William Juergens

Dale Edward Umstot

Timothy Patrick Lovell

Daniel Christian Shavers

Lisa Marie Missik-Gaffney

Kenneth William Smesko

David Russell Tuck

Nicholas Thomas Schoeppner

George Frank Balogh

David Ray Hubbell

Jonathan Robert Luke

Arthur Allen Goldstein

Jeremy Lee Roberts

Michael Richard Crano

Michael Geno Cicchiani

Nathan Andrew Hunt

Teresa Diane Martter

Paul Bryan Maxwell

Samuel P Landers

Randall Raymond Brayer, Sr

Junling Zhao

Charles Joseph Ashton

Christopher David Dyrlund

Daniel Ray Downing

Hans-Peter Guevara Leocadio

Theresa Marie Nopper

Efimia Ellen Rohweder

Gilles Bonnet

Steven Amos Edwards

Arun Kumar Byatarayanapura Gopala

Joseph Kevin Hubbell

Brian Rene Bourel

Thomas Andrew Laurich

Lac An Nguyen

Jennifer Marie Basl

Robert Wayne Schott

John Joseph Kantura, Iii

Christian Kaes

Leyla Kristen Renner

Amanda Gari McGee

Andrew Edward Morrison

Elizabeth Amelia Rogenski

Jeffrey L Plauny

Frank Anthony Kmiecik

Joshua Aaron Phillipson

Tibor Fülöp

Gregory Marvin Strach

Kei Hayakawa

Ben Baicheng Wen

Ralph Edward Okonieski

John Joseph Kantura

Brian James Jakubowski

David Ray Hubell

Tire

A tire includes a tread formed with tread elements that include a dual angled chamfer. The tire includes a pair of sidewalls extending radially outward to a ground-engaging tread. A plurality of circumferentially-extending grooves extend about the tread and define a plurality of ribs. A plurality of laterally-extending grooves cooperate with the circumferential grooves to divide the ribs into tread elements. A plurality of selected tread elements are formed with a dual angled chamfer. Each of the selected tread elements includes a body, a radially outer, ground-engaging surface, a chamfer side, and a dual angled chamfer that is formed in the body between the ground-engaging surface and the chamfer side.

Tire with tread elements including dual angled chamfer

A tread for a tire includes: a first tread zone extending circumferentially, continuously, and entirely around the tire, the first tread zone being formed of a first compound; a second tread zone extending circumferentially, continuously, and entirely around the tire, the second tread zone being formed of a second compound different from the first compound; and a boundary groove axially separating the first tread zone from the second tread zone, the first tread zone, the second tread zone, and the boundary groove entirely forming the tread, the boundary groove having an axial centerline disposed an axial distance from an equatorial plane of the tire. The first tread zone has a first circumferential groove and a sidewall portion defining an intermediate circumferential rib of the first tread zone and a shoulder circumferential rib of the first tread zone.

Tread for a pneumatic tire

A pneumatic tire has a radially outer tread. The tread has a plurality of circumferential grooves, a plurality of lateral grooves, and a plurality of shoulder grooves. The tread includes bottoms and sides of each circumferential groove being textured for improving snow traction, each circumferential groove being textured with flat-topped pyramids, bottoms and sides of each lateral groove being textured for improving snow traction; and bottoms and sides of each shoulder groove being textured for improving snow traction.

Tread for a snow tire

A tire having a tread includes an outer tread layer and an inner tread layer. The inner tread layer includes one of a first elastomeric compound and a second elastomeric compound. The outer tread layer includes the other of the first and second elastomeric compounds. The second elastomeric compound has a lower rolling resistance and greater resistance to treadwear than the first elastomeric compound. The inner tread layer increases in thickness across at least a widthwise portion of the outer tread layer with a maximum thickness of one of the inner tread layer and the outer tread layer occurring near at least one of a first shoulder and a second shoulder of the tread. As the tread wears, the inner tread layer defines a greater proportion of a running surface of the tread.

Passenger tire having low rolling resistance with improved wet traction and treadwear

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:

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