Patent news.

Vehicle tire with air circulation
arrangement
U.S. patent: 6,343,635
Issued: February 5, 2002
Inventor: Shut-Chen Hsu
Keywords: A plurality of air channels
and flow guide grooves for guiding
outside air to carry heat away from
the inside of the tire.

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Tire with breaker assembly including
rubber/fabric wear strip
U.S. patent: 6,343,637
Issued: February 5, 2002
Inventor: John Joseph Slivka
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Keywords: For use in aircraft landing
applications.

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Tire with layer for retardation of
air permeation
U.S. patent: 6,345,656
Issued: February 12, 2002
Inventors: Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce,
Alain Emile Francois Roesgen
and Marie-Rita Catherine Amelie
Thise-Fourgon
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Keywords: Starch/plasticizer composite
for prevention of air permeation.

Tire shreading machinery
U.S. patent: 6,343,755
Issued: February 5, 2002
Inventors: Randel L. Barclay and
Mark T. Diemunsch

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Pneumatic tire and wheel rim
U.S. patent: 6,343,843
Issued: February 5, 2002
Inventor: Masami Nishikawa
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber Industries
Keywords: Provided with lawn-like
materials for damping air resonance.

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Animal feedstock containing
shreaded tires
U.S. patent: 6,346,241
Issued: February 12, 2002
Inventors: Charles P. Haymore and
Adam Heller
Keywords: To improve digestive efficiency
and control harmful and toxic
plants.

Pneumatic tire having tread compound
derived from latex blend
U.S. patent: 6,346,579
Issued: February 12, 2002
Inventors: David John Zanzig, Paul
Harry Sandstrom, Richard Robinson
Smith and Joseph Walter Miller
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Keywords: A blend of a styrene butadiene
latex and an acrylonitrile butadiene
latex.

Touch fastener with magnetic
attractant
U.S. patent: 6,348,252
Issued: February 19, 2002
Inventors: Randall B. Kenney, Martin
I. Jacobs and Brian J. Routhier
Assigned: Velcro Industries B.V.

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Pneumatic tire having a tread containing
dicyclopentadiene/betapinene
resin
U.S. patent: 6,348,539
Issued: February 19, 2002
Inventors: Lawson Gibson Wideman,
Mark Leslie Kraleyich, Jr., Edward
John Blok and Paul Harry Sandstrom
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Keywords: Improving traction in tire
treads.

Portable universal friction testing
machine and method
U.S. patent: 6,349,587
Issued: February 26, 2002
Inventors: Neel K. Mani, Vladimir
Roth and S.J. Olesky
Assigned: Bridgestone/Firestone
Research

Vulcanizing method and vulcanizing
apparatus of tire
U.S. patent: 6,350,402
Issued: February 26, 2002
Inventor: Michihito Kobayashi
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber Industries

Wiper blade
U.S. patent: 6,349,447
Issued: February 26, 2002
Inventor: Joachim Zimmer
Assigned: Robert Bosch GmbH

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Power transmission belt
U.S. patent; 6,352,488
Issued: March 5, 2002
Inventors: Matthew Thomas Morris
and Wesley James Billups
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Keywords: Containing a zinc salt
unsaturated carboxylic acid ester
grafted hydrogenated nitrile butadiene
elastomer and PTFE in the form of
fibers, powder and mixtures thereof.

Method and apparatus for forming
tire reinforcing layer
U.S. patent: 6,355,126
Issued: March 12, 2002
Inventor: Yuichiro Ogawa
Assigned: Bridgestone

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