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Polymer insulator
U.S. patent: 5,834,110
Issued: November 10, 1998
Inventors: Hidenobu Misawa, Yukihiro
Koshino and Isao Nakajima
Assigned: NGK Insulators

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Weather resistant thermoplastic
resin composition
U.S. patent: 5,834,558
Issued: November 10, 1998
Inventors: Hyung-Su Kim and Sung-Yeul Lim
Assigned: Cheil Industries

Synthesis of trans-1,4-polybutadiene
U.S. patent: 5,834,573
Issued: November 10, 1998
Inventor: Kenneth Floyd Castner
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Tire cord having a core and sheath
with improved rubber penetration
U.S. patent: 5,836,145
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventor: Masatsugu Kohno
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber

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Spring action male condom
U.S. patent: 5,836,308
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Ravikumar Alla, Madhusudhan
Alla, Raghunatha Alla and Alla
V.K. Reddy

Protective coating on tire
sidewalls and method for
protecting tire sidewalls
U.S. patent: 5,837,076
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Mortimer Huber, Bharat
Kansupada and Frederic Magnus
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Contraceptive sheath
U.S. patent: 5,836,307
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventor: Thomas Scholl

Solid tire
U.S. patent: 5,837,072
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventor: Muneyasu Fukunaga
Assigned: Fukunaga Engineering

Tire-rim assembly for heavy vehicles
with specified rim flange structure
U.S. patent: 5,837,073
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Georges Cauquot, Guy-Noel
Lambert and Guy Ott
Assigned: Michelin & Cie and Clermont-Ferrand Cedex

Pneumatic tire
U.S. patent: 5,837,074
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventor: Yoshiaki Uemura
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber

Silicone rubber roller for
electrophotography and
method of producing the same
U.S. patent: 5,834,584
Issued: November 10, 1998
Inventors: Hitoshi Itani, Yuji Yamasaki
and Hirotoshi Murakami
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber

Seal arrangement for engine-driven
supercharger
U.S. patent: 5,836,753
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Nobuo Takei and Shigeru Takabe
Assigned: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy
Industries Co.

Pneumatic vehicle tire having belt
wound from flattened tubular tape
U.S. patent: 5,837,077
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Kazuyuki Kabe, Shuji
Takahashi and Tomohiko Kogure
Assigned: Yokohama Rubber

Method of making a toothed belt
with a reinforced fabric covering
U.S. patent: 5,837,085
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Te-Cheng Chen, Mao-Song
Lee, Ruey-Sheng Shih and Huo-Sheng Liao
Assigned: Industrial Technology
Research Institute

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Sheared polymer blends and process
for their preparation
U.S. patent: 5,837,773
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Errol Olivier, Robert
Patterson and Peter Nugara
Assigned: DSM Copolymer

Curable fluoropolyether rubber
composition
U.S. patent: 5,837,774
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Yasuo Tarumi and Kenichi Fukuda
Assigned: Shin-Etsu Chemical

Preparation of rubber modified
molding materials using
peroxy-containing compounds
U.S. patents: 5,837,777
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Graham Edmund McKee,
Rainer Moors, Walter Heckmann, Harald
Larbig and Bernhard Rosenau
Assigned: BASF Aktiengesellschaft

Unsaturated copolymer of ethylene
and process for preparing the same
U.S. patent: 5,837,791
Issued: November 17, 1998
Inventors: Toshihiro Sagane, Masaaki
Kawasaki, Hidenari Nakahama, Tatsuyoshi
Ishida, Katsuya Takahashi,
Toshiyuki Tsutsui, Hitoshi Onishi,
Masaaki Yasuda and Noriaki Kihara
Assigned: Mitsui Petrochemical

Vibration isolating apparatus
U.S. patent: 5,839,720
Issued: November 24, 1998
Inventor: Hiroshi Kojima
Assigned: Bridgestone Corp.

Variable tire pressure traction
control enhancement
U.S. patent: 5,839,801
Issued: November 24, 1998
Inventor: Steven Ferguson
Assigned: ITT Manufacturing

Treated clay product methods of
making and using and products
therefrom
U.S. patent: 5,840,113
Issued: November 24, 1998
Inventors: Gary Freeman, Carl Marshall,
Walter Lackey and Thomas Lynch
Assigned: J.M. Huber Corp.

Pneumatic tire with improved snow
and ice traction
U.S. patent: 5,840,137
Issued: November 24, 1998
Inventor: Shingo Futamura
Assigned: Bridgestone Corp.

Waterborne radial first harmonic
marking of tires
U.S. patent: 5,840,138
Issued: November 24, 1998
Inventors: Ramendra Nath Majumdar
and Robert Calevich
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Sealing profile for motor vehicles
U.S. patent: 5,840,401
Issued: November 24, 1998
Inventor: Karl Baesecke and Bad Salzdefurth
Assigned: Meteor Gummiwerke

Process and device for producing at
least a portion of a tire mold comprising
at least one element molding
a non-removable motif
U.S. patent: 5,843,326
Issued: December 1, 1998
Inventor: Guy Bellot
Assigned: Michelin & Cie and
Clermont-Ferrand Cedex