Patents by Inventor Charlotte Caffeau

Charlotte Caffeau has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11673431
    Abstract: A heavy truck tire is provided that includes a tread and a casing. The casing has a bead with a bead core having padding gum and a rod with a perimeter. A contention armature surrounds the bead core and has an overlap, a majority of which is located outward in the radial direction from the rod. The padding gum is arranged in relation to the rod such that an outer area, inner area, and an axially outer area of the padding gum have areas that are greater than or equal to 20% of the area of the perimeter of the rod. An axially inner area of the padding gum is greater than or equal to 10% of the area of the perimeter of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Dale Green, Remy Guerin, Olivier Bergamaschi
  • Publication number: 20210213787
    Abstract: A heavy truck tire is provided that includes a tread and a casing. The casing has a bead with a bead core having padding gum and a rod with a perimeter. A contention armature surrounds the bead core and has an overlap, a majority of which is located outward in the radial direction from the rod. The padding gum is arranged in relation to the rod such that an outer area, inner area, and an axially outer area of the padding gum have areas that are greater than or equal to 20% of the area of the perimeter of the rod. An axially inner area of the padding gum is greater than or equal to 10% of the area of the perimeter of the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: CHARLOTTE CAFFEAU, DALE GREEN, REMY GUERIN, OLIVIER BERGAMASCHI
  • Patent number: 9987887
    Abstract: Aircraft tire comprises carcass reinforcement (5) comprising a first family of carcass layers extending between two beads (3), having at least one carcass layer wrapped, within each bead, from the inside towards the outside of the tire, around a bead wire (6) to form turn-up (511) having free end (E1) radially outside of radially outermost point (E) of the bead wire. The second family comprises at least two carcass layers, adjacent each to the next, extending, within each bead, from outside towards inside of the tire, as far as their respective ends (E2) which are radially inside of axial straight line (DY) through centre (O) of bead wire (6) and axially inside of a radial straight line (DZ) through centre (O) at axial distance (d2) at least equal to 5 mm. The carcass layers of the second family are axially inside of at least one turn-up of a carcass layer of the first family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Arnaud Boursin
  • Patent number: 9889707
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min and at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on at least one face, with textile threads exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of between 1 and 3 cm3/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Sebastien Noel, Bernard Jault
  • Patent number: 9731557
    Abstract: The tire comprises a tread, a crown reinforcement and at least one crown layer. The crown layer has an axial width (L2) that is at least two-thirds of a maximum axial width (L1) of the tire and has a concave portion with axial limits (M2, M?2) on either side of an equatorial plane (XZ). The tire further includes a carcass reinforcement which has at least one carcass layer with a concave portion that has axial limits (M3, M?3) on either side of the equatorial plane (XZ). The radial distance (d) between the respective concave portions is at a maximum in the equatorial plane (XZ) and decreases continuously from the equatorial plane (XZ) as far as the axial limits (M2, M?2) of the said concave portions axially closest to the equatorial plane (XZ), where it reaches a minimum value (dM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.
    Inventors: Vincent Estenne, Charlotte Caffeau
  • Publication number: 20160303913
    Abstract: Tire with a radial carcass reinforcement, made up of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself radially capped by a tread, the tread being connected to two beads by two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are non-wrapped cords which, in the test referred to as the permeability test, return a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min, in a radial plane, at least over part of the meridian profile of the tire, the thickness of rubber compound between the interior surface of the cavity of the tire and the point of a metal reinforcing element of the carcass reinforcement closest to the interior surface of the cavity is less than or equal to 3.8 mm and the ratio between the thickness of rubber compound measured at the circumferential mid plane and the said thickness measured in another region of the tire is greater than 1.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte CAFFEAU, Michaël COGNE, Jean BERANGER
  • Publication number: 20150107747
    Abstract: Aircraft tire comprises carcass reinforcement (5) comprising a first family of carcass layers extending between two beads (3), having at least one carcass layer wrapped, within each bead, from the inside towards the outside of the tire, around a bead wire (6) to form turn-up (511) having free end (E1) radially outside of radially outermost point (E) of the bead wire. The second family comprises at least two carcass layers, adjacent each to the next, extending, within each bead, from outside towards inside of the tire, as far as their respective ends (E2) which are radially inside of axial straight line (DY) through centre (O) of bead wire (6) and axially inside of a radial straight line (DZ) through centre (O) at axial distance (d2) at least equal to 5 mm. The carcass layers of the second family are axially inside of at least one turn-up of a carcass layer of the first family.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Arnaud Boursin
  • Publication number: 20150000816
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min and at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on at least one face, with textile threads exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of between 1 and 3 cm3/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Sébastien Noel, Bernard Jault
  • Publication number: 20140352865
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min and at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on at least one face, with textile threads and at least the layer of elastomeric mixture, axially in contact with the end of at least the radially innermost crown reinforcement layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement, is an elastomeric mixture based on natural rubber or on synthetic polyisoprene and on a reinforcing filler conferring high cohesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Sébastien Noel, Jacques Besson
  • Publication number: 20140345774
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min, at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on the surface of at least one calendering layer, with textile threads and the said at least one calendering layer of the said at least one carcass reinforcement layer is an elastomeric mixture based on natural rubber or on synthetic polyisoprene and on a reinforcing filler conferring high cohesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Sébastien Noel, Isabelle Riou
  • Publication number: 20140345775
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, and having a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min and at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on at least one face, with non-continuous textile threads composed of two parts, one end of a textile thread being positioned on the turn-up of the said at least one layer of reinforcing elements around the bead wires and the other end of a textile thread being radially interior to the orthogonal projection of the shoulder end onto the said at least one face of the said at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Isabelle Demay, Bernard Jault
  • Publication number: 20140338811
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min and at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on at least one face, with textile threads and at least the layer of elastomeric mixture, radially external to the bead wire and in contact with the latter, is an elastomeric mixture based on natural rubber or on synthetic polyisoprene and on a reinforcing filler conferring high cohesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Sébastien Noel, Nathalie Salgues, Patricia Lagarde
  • Publication number: 20140326387
    Abstract: An aeroplane tire comprising a tread, a crown reinforcement radially on the inside of the tread and comprising at least one crown layer, the radially interior crown layer having an axial width (L2) at least equal to two-thirds of the maximum axial width (L1) of the tire and comprising a concave portion of which the axial limits (M2, M?2), on either side of the equatorial plane (XZ), are the radially exterior points of the said crown layer, carcass reinforcement radially on the inside of the crown reinforcement and comprising at least one carcass layer, the radially exterior carcass layer comprising a concave portion of which the axial limits (M3, M?3), on either side of the equatorial plane (XZ), are the radially exterior points of the said carcass layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Vincent Estenne, Charlotte Caffeau