B29D 30/0016
Handling tyres or parts thereof
Official title: {Handling tyres or parts thereof, e.g. supplying, storing, conveying (B29D30/2607 takes precedence; loading and unloading vulcanizing presses B29D30/0603)}
B29D30/0016 (Handling tyres or parts thereof) appears on 381 US grants and 388 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 381
- Published applications
- 388
- Assignees
- 119
- Inventors
- 714
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for marking a vehicle tire, and marking station22 Sep 2026US 12,741,433 B2ZF Friedrichshafen AG
- Plant for building tyres of vehicle wheels and method for providing elongated elements to be used in a process for building tyres19 May 2026US 12,629,907 B2Pirelli Tyre S. P. A.
- Method for arranging elongated elements to be used in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels and plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels12 May 2026US 12,623,421 B2Pirelli Tyre S. P. A.
- Unwinding system and method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel and for outputting said tire component in a transport direction5 May 2026US 12,617,643 B2Vmi Holland B .V.
- Process for building tyres of vehicle wheels and method for providing elongated elements to be used in the aforementioned process28 Apr 2026US 12,611,830 B2Pirelli Tyre S. P. A.
- Slewing drive for a loading and/or unloading apparatus, loading and/or unloading apparatus with a slewing drive, tire-heating press and method for handling tires8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307349 A1Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH
- Pick-and-place system, tire manufacturing line and method for picking-up a tire component17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273881 A1Vmi Holland B .V.
- Transport system for transporting a green tire and method for inspecting a green tire20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241654 A1Vmi Holland B .V.
- Apparatus for arranging elongated elements to be used in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225335 A1Pirelli Tyre S. P. A.
- Plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225336 A1Pirelli Tyre S. P. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Green tire storage device with inflatable bladders65US 6,656,301 B2Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC · 2003
- Automatic transport system for green tires between forming and vulcanizing processes49US 4,773,810 ABridgestone Corporation · 1988
- Device for the positioning of tires37US 4,638,756 A1987
- Tire processing system35US 4,778,060 AThe Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company · 1988
- Tubular sleeve handling and cut-off system35US 4,987,808 ABridgestone/Firestone, Inc. · 1991