Patents by Inventor Marc De Bondt

Marc De Bondt 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).

  • Method of manufacturing fatigue resistant cables
    Patent number: 4612792
    Abstract: In order to improve the fatigue resistance of a cable, particularly a rubber adherable cable for reinforcing rubber articles such as vehicle tires, substantially uniformly distributed residual compressive stress is induced in substantially the complete peripheral zone of the wires making up the cable. The stress may be induced by submitting lengths of the cable to a number of elementary bending-unbending operations in considerably different planes and simultaneously tensioning the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Assignee: N. V. Bekaert S. A.
    Inventors: Marc De Bondt, Urbain D'Haene, Paul Dambre
  • Fatigue resistant cables
    Patent number: 4481996
    Abstract: In order to improve the fatigue resistance of a cable, particularly a rubber adherable cable for reinforcing rubber articles such as vehicle tires, substantially uniformly distributed residual compressive stress is induced in substantially the complete peripheric zone of the wires making up the cable. The stress may be induced by submitting lengths of the cable to a number of elementary bending--unbending operations in considerably different planes and simultaneously tensioning the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: N. V. Bekaert S.A.
    Inventors: Marc De Bondt, Urbain D'Haene, Paul Dambre