Patent News.

All-terrain-vehicle tire

U.S. patent: 6,021,829
Issued: February 8, 2000
Inventor: Timothy Michael Rooney
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

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Silicone rubber compositions
incorporating silicone-treated
carbon blacks

U.S. patent: 6,020,402
Issued: February 1, 2000
Inventors: Joginder N. Anand, John E.
Mills and Steven R. Reznek
Assigned: Cabot

Pneumatic tire including fine groove

U.S. patent: 6,021,830
Issued: February 8, 2000
Inventor: Wako Iwamura
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber

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Thermoplastic vulcanizates of
carboxylated nitrile rubber and
polyester thermoplastics

U.S. patent: 6,020,427
Issued: February 1, 2000
Inventors: Tonson Abraham and Sabet
Abdou-Sabet
Assigned: Advanced Elastomer Systems

Dynamic vulcanizates of engineering
thermoplastic and acrylic rubber
blends with dissimilar cure sites
using a common curative

U.S. patent: 6,020,431
Issued: February 1, 2000
Inventors: Krishna Venkataswamy and
Tonson Abraham
Assigned: Advanced Elastomer Systems

Process for curing elastomeric
vinylidene flouride copolymers

U.S. patent: 6,020,440
Issued: February 1, 2000
Inventor: David L. Tabb
Assigned: Du Pont Dow Elastomers
Keywords: Elastomeric vinylidene
fluoride copolymer gum, quaternary
ammonium salts, quaternary
phosphonium salts, cyclic amines,
monofunctional amines, acid acceptor
and organic peroxides

RTV-2 silicone foams with low
compression set

U.S. patent: 6,022,904
Issued: February 8, 2000
Inventors: Franz Neuhauser, Herbert
Sollradl, Klaus-Michael Matejcek and
Berndt Stadelmann
Assigned: Wacker-Chemie
Keywords: Polyorganosiloxane having
an organic sulfur compound (VI)

Pneumatic tire having foamed
rubber

U.S. patent: 6,021,831
Issued: February 8, 2000
Inventors: Koji Yamauchi, Nobuyuki
Okamura, Kojiro Yamaguchi and
Kazunori Shinohara
Assigned: Bridgestone Corp.
Keywords: For snow and icy road

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Traction device for vehicle wheels

U.S. patent: 6,022,082
Issued: February 8, 2000
Inventor: John M. O'Brien
Assigned: Traction on Demand LLC

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Process for the production of filled
rubber mixtures

U.S. patent: 6,025,415
Issued: February 15, 2000
Inventor: Thomas Scholl
Assigned: Bayer AG
Keywords: Mixtures of oxidic and/or
siliceous fillers and rubbers are added
to the solution of a robber in an organic
solvent

Tire tread compositions containing
asymmetrically tin-coupled
polybutadiene rubber

U.S. patent: 6,025,430
Issued: February 15, 2000
Inventors: Edward John Blok, Paul
Harry Sandstrom, Cheryl Ann Losey,
Adel Farhan Halasa, Wen-Liang Hsu,
David John Zanzig and John Joseph
Andre Verthe
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Thermal conductive silicone rubber
composition

U.S. patent: 6,025,435
Issued: February 15, 2000
Inventors: Kimio Yamakawa, Noriyasu
Yokoyama and Katsutoshi Mine
Assigned: Dow Corning Toray Silicone
Keywords: Fine alumina powder

Elastomeric compounds incorporating
silicone-treated carbon blacks

U.S. patent: 6,028,137
Issued: February 22, 2000
Inventors: Khaled Mahmud, Meng-Jiao
Wang, James A. Belmont and Robert
A. Francis
Assigned: Cabot
Keywords: Comparable or higher loss
tangent at low temperature and a lower
loss tangent at high temperature

Crosslinked elastomer capable of
thermoplastic transformation, method
of manufacture and uses thereof

U.S. patent: 6,028,142
Issued: February 22, 2000
Inventor: Nicolas Garois
Assigned: Hutchinson
Keywords: Polyoctene, polyolefin,
grafted with acrylic acid, maleic
anhydride or glycidyl methacrylate

Rubber composition containing
crosslinkable polyethylene

U.S. patent: 6,028,143
Issued: February 22, 2000
Inventor: Uchu Mukai
Assigned: Bridgestone

Inextensible high temperature
resistant tire

U.S. patent: 6,026,878
Issued: February 22, 2000
Inventors: Zhibin Zhank, Thomas Reed
Oare and Amit Prakash
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

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Spreader for calender line

U.S. patent: 6,029,325
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventor: Edward S. Orzel
Assigned: North American Manufacturing

Multiple link tire belt

U.S. patent: 6,029,725
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventor: Neel K. Mani
Assigned: Bridgestone/Firestone

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Rebound cushion for body mount

U.S. patent: 6,030,016
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventor: Bernie W. Rice
Assigned: Standard Products

Sleeve-type rubber shock absorber
with hydraulic damping

U.S. patent: 6,029,961
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventors: Frank Meyerink, Klaus
Kramer, Andreas Vossel and Ernst-Gunter
Jordens
Assigned: Lemforder Metallwaren AG

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Flexible conveyor belt and a
conveyor making use thereof

U.S. patent: 6,029,801
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventors: Jean-Paul Odin and
Jean-Paul Pelissou
Assigned: S.F.B.T. Societe Francaise
de Bandes Transorteuses

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Pressureless tennis ball

U.S. patent: 6,030,304
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventors: Frank Simonutti, Peter Tolley,
Jerry Matheny and William Dillon
Assigned: Wilson Sporting Goods
Keywords: Core formed from rubber
and a plastomer copolymer of ethylene
and alkenes containing 4 to 10 carbon
atoms

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Device and process for constructing
the carcass for preshaping a half-finished
(unvulcanized) rubber tire

U.S. patent: 6,030,479
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventors: Hubert Ringhoff and
Dietrich Luderwald
Assigned: Continental AG

Protecting electronic components in
acidic and basic environment

U.S. patent: 6,030,684
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventors: Anthony Polak and Theresa
Baker
Assigned: Motorola

Polyolefin blend containing ground
vulcanized rubber

U.S. patent: 6,031,009
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventor: Edgar Armando Gonzalez

Pneumatic tire including
flourine-based oligomer

U.S. patent: 6,035,911
Issued: March 14, 2000
Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hideki
Matsui, Toshiyuki Ota and Kenji
Matsuo
Assigned: Bridgestone
Keywords: Surface layer portion of a
tread containing other polymers and
fluorine-based oligomer having a
perfluoroalkyl group containing copolymer

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Medical implants of
stretch-crystallizable elastomers and
methods of implantation

U.S. patent: 6,030,416
Issued: February 29, 2000
Inventors: Peter Huo, Stephen Zhou
and Christine Liau
Assigned: Pharmacia & Upjohn AB

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Compositions and methods for
wound management

U.S. patent: 6,033,684
Issued: March 7, 2000
Inventor: Michael A. Norcia
Assigned: Jonor, Inc.
Keywords: Dressing adhered to dry
skin and wet skin. A moisture absorbing
hydrophilic compound; and trehalose
to protect during dehydration

Method of forming a complete tire
carcass

U.S. patent: 6,039,825
Issued: March 21, 2000
Inventor: Karl J. Siegenthaler
Assigned: Bridgestone

Bis(hydroxylalkyl alkyl ester)
polysulfides

U.S. patent: 6,040,389
Issued: March 21, 2000
Inventors: Lawson Gibson Wideman
and Paul Harry Sandstrom
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

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