The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Rene Francois Reuter

Rene Jean Zimmer

David John Zanzig

Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce

Frank Schmitz

Robert John Gartland

Wolfgang Albert Lauer

James Gregory Gillick

Claude Ernest Felix Boes

Serge Julien Auguste Imhoff

Peter Phelps Roch

Walter Kevin Westgate

Hans-Bernd Fuchs

Damian Wilhelm Georges

Claude Ernest Félix Boes

The present invention provides a pneumatic tire comprising raised indicia on a sidewall of the tire, the raised indicia comprising a plurality of superposed layers of a curable elastomer composition.

Tire with raised indicia

Disclosed is a tire having at least one reinforcing ply in the carcass, belt, or bead region of the tire. The reinforcing ply is comprised of a blended fiber cord. The cords, in combination with a preferred cure temperature adhesive, achieve a high degree of thermal stability allowing for the use of such cords in various reinforcing plies for a pneumatic tire and for preferred use for such cords in areas of the tire subject to high temperatures either in curing or performance.

Pneumatic tire with blended composite fiber cords

The invention relates to treatment of yarns for use in reinforcement of rubber products. Such treatment comprises application to the yarn of an aqueous emulsion of polyester and/or epoxy adhesive, or an aqueous alkaline dispersion of rubber latex and resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesive, wherein said adhesive contains a minor amount of particulate, water insoluble starch composite of starch and water insoluble plasticizer therefor. Such yarns may be in a form of a cord comprised of a plurality of yarns. The invention further relates to such treated yarns. The invention additionally relates to such treated yarns and a composite of rubber and said treated yarns. The invention additionally relates to an article of manufacture such, as for example, a rubber tire, having at least one component comprised of said composite.

Starch-modified aqueous adhesive dip, treated yarns therewith and tire having component of rubber composition containing such treated yarns

A stress sensor includes two capacitor plates held in a spaced-apart relationship by a connector block situated therebetween. The connector block includes a plurality of rods protruding from opposite connector block sides and extending into a respective capacitor plate to attach peripheral portions of each capacitor plate to the connector block. A small air gap is maintained between peripheral portions of the capacitor plates by the inclusion of a spacer member. Terminal end portions of the protruding rods are deformed such as by the application of heat over an outer surface of the capacitor plates to retain the capacitor plates in a fixed mutual relationship. The terminal end portions of the rods further serve to prevent horizontal or vertical slippage between the capacitor plates when the sensor is vulcanized into rubber compounds such as in a tire. Once embedded within the rubber compound, the gap between the capacitor plates varies responsively to stress within the rubber compound whereby varying proportionately the capacitance of the device. A signal is directed into the sensor device and an antenna positioned proximate to the device detects the capacitance value between the capacitor plates. As the capacitance varies proportionately with stress within the material, the antenna detects the changes and transmits data to a remote reader that interprets the data to ascertain measured stress within the rubber compound.

Tire sensor and method of assembly

Growing community of inventors

Burden, Luxembourg

Rene Francois Reuter