Patents Assigned to Compagnie General des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
  • Decorative laminate for elastomeric articles
    Patent number: 6030676
    Abstract: A decorative laminate for articles of elastomeric material in which a layer of pigments is sandwiched between an adhesive covering and a protective vering. The two coverings are produced from aqueous emulsions of at least one homopolymer or a copolymer having a base of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic, methacrylic and vinyl esters, and having a glass transition temperature less than 0.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Compagnie General Des Etablissements Michelin-Michelin & Cie
    Inventors: Alain Cottin, Georges Peyron
  • Method for processing pressure and temperature measurements in a tire monitoring system
    Patent number: 5886624
    Abstract: Under-inflation of a tire caused by natural deflation is subject to speci monitoring when all of the tires are in an established temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Compagnie General Des Etablissements Michelin-Michelin & Cie
    Inventor: Jacques Hebert
  • Process and apparatus for stabilizing the oscillations of a vehicle, and vehicle equipped with such an apparatus
    Patent number: 5495879
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and vehicle in which the tires operate in accordance with stiff modes in order to increase the damping of their oscillations, the tires being filled practically completely with non-compressible fluid and being subject to the establishing of communications between at least one pair by connections filled with a constant volume of non-compressible fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Compagnie General des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventor: Abelardo Cabestrero
  • Train of tires with directional tread pattern and method of mounting the tires on a vehicle
    Patent number: 5421389
    Abstract: In order to minimize the disturbance to the occupants of the vehicle as a sult of the noises given off by the tires of the vehicle, the tires have treads provided with "V"-shaped directional tread patterns and are mounted "vertex to the rear" on the front axle of the vehicle and "vertex to the front" on the rear axle of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Compagnie General des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventors: Francois Favre, Didier Martin
  • Tire
    Patent number: D339557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Compagnie General des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventor: Patrick Lurois
  • Tire
    Patent number: D341559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Compagnie General des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventor: Patrick Lurois