The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Societe Detechnologie Michelin

Samuel P Landers

John S Attinello

David Charles Poling

Robert Allen Losey

Billy Joe Ratliff, Jr

Norman D Anderson

William E Glover

Dale G Freygang

Paul Bryan Maxwell

Charles Kenneth Schmalix

Craig David Miller

Kevin Alan Reid

James C Stroble

Michael Joseph Weber

Karl Eric Sundkvist

Thulasiram Gobinath

Thomas J Botzman

John Kevin Clark

Andrew Edward Morrison

Max Harold Dixon

Darrell E Covert

Amit Prakash

Frederick Forbes Vannan, Jr

Gary Edwin Tubb

Klaus Beer

John Ronald Abbott

John Joseph Kantura, Iii

Henry David Broyles

John Janes Beck, Jr

Michael Kaniecki

Aaron Scott Puhala

John Kotanides, Jr

Randall R Brayer

Martin Paul Cohen

Eric John Marazzi

William M Hopkins

William E Egan

Joel Joseph Lazeration

Michael Julian Crawford

Walter Dale Allen

Leonard James Reiter

Adrian Thomas O'Neill

Bernard Matthew Bezilla, Jr

Stephen Lash

Luis Antonio Cabrera

Jeremy Elton Miracle

Ryan Hampton Copeland

Donald Allan Abbott

Jonathan James Shondel

Philip S Hammond

Charles Joseph Ashton

Sean D Montag

Theresa Marie Nopper

Michael Stefan Skurich

Gia Van Nguyen

John Kolbjoern Roedseth

Loran C Lopp, Jr

James Michael Hart

Charles W Roberts

Frank Helmut Bucher

Roland Paul Close

Arthur Allen Goldstein

Paul B Maxwell

Stephen Frederick Roth

Leyla Kristen Renner

Michael Spiro Markoff

Susan Lynn Deevers

Noelle Elizabeth Russell

Joseph Michael Gingo

Wiliam E Glover

Dale Jay Moseley

A method of making a tire comprising the steps of providing a core; forming a first layer of ply by winding a strip of one or more rubber coated cords onto the core in a geodesic pattern extending from a first shoulder to a second shoulder opposite said first shoulder and being tangent to the bead at a location between said first shoulder and said second shoulder.

Geodesic tire and method of manufacture

A pneumatic tire having a pair of beads, a tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a carcass including a plurality of plies of tire cord fabric, said tire having one or more belt plies, wherein at least one of said belt plies has cords being defined by the equation &#x3c1;[cos &#x3b1;]=K, when &#x3c1; is the radius from the rotational axis of the tire to a point on the carcass, &#x3b1; is the cord angle of said at least one ply at said point, n is a positive real number between 0.1 and 1, and K is a constant.

Geodesic belted tire

A pneumatic tire comprising a belt structure and a torus shaped carcass having a first inner radius and an outer radius, wherein the carcass is comprised of three or more layers of ply, wherein each layer of ply is formed from a rubberized strip of one or more cords, the strips being wound in an geodesic pattern having the cord extend across the carcass from a first shoulder to a second shoulder in a path that has at least one point tangent to the first inner radius located in the bead area of the tire.

Pneumatic tire with carcass cord strip wound in specified pattern

A pneumatic tire is disclosed having a label affixed to a plurality of whiskers extending from the outer sidewall of the tire. The whiskers may be T shaped. The label may be colored.

Tire with label

The invention relates to a tire having a rubber tread comprised of cap/base construction where the tread cap layer provides the running surface of the tread and the tread base layer underlies the tread cap layer and thereby provides a transition between the tread cap layer and the tire carcass. For this invention, the tread cap layer is comprised of a plurality of individual circumferential load-bearing zones of rubber compositions, which exhibit graduated physical properties, and which extend from the outer running surface of the tread cap layer radially inward to said tread base layer. In one aspect, the zoned rubber tread cap layer and rubber tread base layer are co-extruded together to form a unit as an integral tread rubber composite.

Tire with rubber tread of circumferential zones with graduated physical properties

A medallion assembly for a pneumatic tire, in accordance with the present invention, includes a protruding portion, a fastener, and a medallion. The protruding portion is integrally formed with a sidewall of the tire and extends away from the sidewall of the tire. The protruding portion has an annular tapered outer surface. The fastener has an annular tapered inner surface and an annular outer surface. The annular tapered inner surface engages the annular tapered outer surface of the protruding portion. The medallion has an annular inner surface for engaging the annular outer surface of the fastener such that the medallion is secured to the fastener and both the medallion and the fastener are secured to the protruding portion of the sidewall of the tire.

Medallion assembly secured to a tire sidewall

A fastener assembly for a pneumatic tire includes a protruding portion, a fastener, and a securable attachment. The protruding portion is integrally formed with a sidewall of the tire and extends away from the sidewall of the tire. The protruding portion has an annular outer surface and a knob. The fastener has an annular inner surface and an annular outer surface. The annular inner surface engages the annular outer surface of the protruding portion. The annular outer surface has a recess. The securable attachment has an annular inner surface for engaging the recess of the outer surface of the fastener such that the securable attachment is secured to the fastener and both the securable attachment and the fastener are secured to protruding portion of the sidewall of the tire.

Fastener assembly secured to a tire sidewall

A pneumatic run-flat tire has a bead configuration wherein the axially inner end is radially inward of the axially outer end of the bead. The sidewall of the tire, from the bead region to the upper sidewall is reinforced to form a pillar support in the sidewall. The bead configuration and the pillar reinforcement enable the tire to lock itself onto a tire rim during low pressure operation and be self-supporting.

Pneumatic run-flat tire

Tire tread

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Uniontown, OH, United States of America

Samuel P Landers