Patent News.

Method for manufacturing
a breast prosthesis

U.S. patent: 5,792,292
Issued: August 11, 1998
Inventor: Helmut Franz Wild
Assigned: Amoena-Medizin-Orthopadie-Technik GmbH

Vulcanizable rubber compositions
containing serf-condensing
alkylated triazine resins
having high imino and/or methyl
functionality for improved tire cord
adhesion and reinforcement

U.S. patent: 5,792,805
Issued: August 11, 1998
Inventor: Laurence Williams
Assigned: Cytec Technology

Process and apparatus for
separating components of
fragmented vehicle tires

U.S. patent: 5,794,861
Issued: August 18, 1998
Inventor: Darrel Rutherford
Assigned: D&R Recyclers

Medium/heavy duty motor-vehicle
tires provided with a tread of the
universal type

U.S. patent: 5,795,415
Issued: August 18, 1998
Inventors: Luigi Campana and Alberto Carra
Assigned: Pirellie Coordinameto Pneumatici S.p.A

Run-flat tire having
partial carcass layers

U.S. patent: 5,795,416
Issued: August 18, 1998
Inventors: Walter Willard, Jr., Virginia
Snipes and Allen Wilson
Assigned: Michelin Recherche

Pneumatic vehicle tire having a
breaker arrangement surrounded
at least in its edge regions by
at least one cover ply and method
of making the same

U.S. patent: 5,795,417
Issued: August 18, 1998
Inventors: Roland Damke, Manfred Gerresheim and Robert Nau
Assigned: SP Reifenwerke GmbH

Pneumatic motorcycle tire for
improved cornering and straight
running stability

U.S. patent: 5,795,418
Issued: August 18, 1998
Inventor: Shigehiko Suzuki
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber Industries

Electrically conductive coatings
comprising fluorinated carbon
filled fluoroelastomer

U.S. patent: 5,795,500
Issued: August 8, 1998
Inventors: Kock-Yee Law, Ihor W.
Tarnawskyj, Joseph Mammino, Martin
Abkowitz and Frederick Knier
Assigned: Xerox

Seismic isolation bearing

U.S. patent: 5,797,228
Issued: August 25, 1998
Inventor: Zoltan Kemeny
Assigned: Tekton

Foamed rubber compositions for tires
and pneumatic tire using the same

U.S. patent: 5,798,009
Issued: August 25, 1998
Inventor: Hiroyuki Teratani
Assigned: Bridgestone

Tire mold and process for the
molding of a tire

U.S. patent: 5,798,076
Issued: August 25, 1998
Inventor: Jean-Pierre Ladouce
Assigned: Sedepro

Tire tread element mold chamber
to modify RCF and/or RSAT
using the existing mold

U.S. patent: 5,798,124
Issued: August 35, 1998
Inventors: John Howald and Steven Rohweder
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Rubber devulcanization process

U.S. patent: 5,798,394
Issued: August 25, 1998
Inventors: Ronald Myers and John MacLeod
Assigned: Exxon Research and Engineering

Tire tread of coupled SIBR

U.S. patent: 5,798,408
Issued: August 25, 1998
Inventors: David Zanzig, Wen-Liang
Hsu, Adel Halasa and Barry Matrana
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Tire with tread of rubber
composition containing two
different carbon blacks

U.S. patent: 5,798,405
Issued: August 25, 1998
Inventors: Rene Zimmer, Friedrich
Visel, Uwe Frank, Thierry Materne and Giorgio Agostini
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber