Abstract: A tire comprises a rubber composition based on at least one elastomeric matrix mainly comprising a random copolymer comprising ethylene units and conjugated diene units, the mole fraction of the ethylene units in the copolymer being within a range extending from 50% to 95%; a peroxide; and a specific acrylate derivative.

Abstract: The tire includes a summit surrounded by side portions terminating in beads provided to cooperate with a mounting rim. A carcass reinforcement is surmounted by a summit reinforcement composed of reinforcing plies. When the tire is mounted onto its standard mounting rim and inflated with its nominal pressure, each side portion has an upper side point, a bottom side point, an intermediate side point, an upper side portion, and a bottom side portion. A weight of the bottom side portion on one side portion is at least 15% lighter than a weight of the bottom side portion on another side portion.

Abstract: A method for marking a tire having a tread and two sidewalls delimiting the tread, by inflating the tire mounted on a rim, and when in the inflated state, making, on at least one of the sidewalls, at least one marking which is at least partially colored, wherein during the inflation, the tire is inflated to a pressure greater than the nominal inflation pressure of the tire.

Abstract: A high-modulus rubber composition is based on at least a diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, from 1 to 45 phr of reinforcing resin, from 1 to 10 phr of sulfur, and from 0.5 to 15 phr of vulcanization accelerator having a vulcanization initiation time, referred to as “t0”, of less than 3 minutes, said composition comprising no vulcanization accelerator having a “t0” of greater than or equal to 3 minutes or comprising less than 2 phr thereof.

Abstract: A heavy truck tire is provided with a bead design that has a bead core and a reinforcement ply that wraps around a section of the bead core and has a return casing ply. Bead filler is present that has a portion radially outward from the bead core and axially inboard from the return casing ply. A stiffener layer is present that has a portion located outboard from the return casing ply. The bead has a first bead layer with a portion between the return casing ply and the stiffener layer, and a second bead layer that has a portion outboard from the stiffener layer. The stiffness of the first and second bead layers is 8 MPa to 14 MPa. The stiffness of the bead filler is less than the stiffness of the first and second bead layers.

Abstract: A method for supplying green tire manufacturing machines (14) with elastomeric products (12) by means of a supply facility (10) comprising a loading member (30) and at least one transfer member (34) comprising an unwinder (36) is disclosed. The supply facility comprises a preparation station (32), said preparation station comprising a manipulator arm (70), and at least one motor (53), the preparation station and the unwinder being distinct from the green tire manufacturing machine. The method comprises the following successive operations: loading the reel onto the unwinder; positioning the end of the product wound on the réel; arranging the end of the product in such a way that it is laid on a dispenser of the unwinder; and transferring the reel from the preparation station to the green tire manufacturing machine.

Abstract: A tire exhibits an improved performance compromise, the tread of which comprises a rubber composition based on an elastomeric matrix comprising from 25 to 95 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of elastomer, phr, of copolymer based on butadiene and on styrene having a glass transition temperature of less than ?70° C., and from 5 to 75 phr of polybutadiene, the elastomeric matrix comprising less than 15 phr of isoprene elastomer; at least one reinforcing filler; from 25 to 100 phr of at least one plasticizing resin having a glass transition temperature of greater than 20° C.; and a vulcanization system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to tires, at least one internal layer of which exhibits good mechanical properties and reduced rolling resistance, the said internal layer comprising a rubber composition based on at least 80 to 100 phr of an isoprene elastomer, a reinforcing filler predominantly comprising carbon black, 1 to 45 phr of reinforcing resin, a salt of an alkaline earth, alkali or lanthanide metal, and a crosslinking system.

Abstract: A tire comprises a rubber composition based on at least a rubber crumb, a diene elastomer, a pro-oxidant, a reinforcing filler and a crosslinking system, said rubber crumb representing 30% by mass or more of the composition, and exhibiting a ratio of the chloroform extract to the acetone extract of less than 2, the chloroform and acetone extracts being expressed as percentages by mass.

Abstract: A first ply and then a second ply, which is superposed on the first ply, are produced on a hoop-type first support. The hoop-type first support has a first receiving surface, to form a laminate. The first and second plies forming the laminate are transferred onto an annular second receiving surface of a core so that the laminate is wrapped on the core until each ply is closed on itself and the laminate is thus closed on itself in a ring about the central axis of the core.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device comprises at least one piezoelectric composite layer P inserted between two conductive composite layers E, each layer E forming an electrode, characterized in that: the layer P is a rubber composition containing more than 50 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight rubber, phr, of diene elastomer, a cross-linking system and at least 5 vol. %, in relation to the total volume of the rubber composition, of piezoelectric inorganic charges; and each layer E is a rubber composition containing at least 50 phr of diene elastomer, a cross-linking system, and conductive charges. A method for producing the device and a tire comprising the device are also disclosed.

Abstract: A tire comprises a rubber composition based on at least one elastomeric matrix mainly comprising a random copolymer comprising ethylene units and conjugated diene units, the mole fraction of the ethylene units in the copolymer being within a range extending from 50% to 95%; a peroxide; and a specific acrylate derivative.

Abstract: A mixing and extrusion machine (10) for the manufacture of rubber mixtures includes a mixer with a converging conical twin-screw (12) with a fixed frame (14) that supports sleeves (16). Two screws (18), being mounted at an angle, are mounted in the mixer (12) in such a way as to move in translational movement between an opening (22) arranged upstream and an outlet (25) arranged downstream of the sleeves. The screws are mounted in the sleeves with removable doors including sliding shutters (40) installed relative to the outlet (25). The sliding shutters move linearly between a closed position, in which the sliding shutters prevent the mixer from discharging the mixture, and an open position, in which the sliding shutters prevent discharge of the mixture through the sides of two counter-rotating rollers (32) of a roller nose type system located just downstream of the outlet.

Abstract: A tire for a motor vehicle comprising: two beads (20); two sidewalls (30) meeting at a crown (25); at least one carcass reinforcement (160) extending from the beads (20) through the sidewalls (30) as far as the crown (25), the carcass reinforcement (160) having a plurality of carcass reinforcing elements and anchored in the two beads (20) by a turn-up around the annular reinforcing structure (70), so as to form in each bead a main strand (162) and a turn-up strand (163); and a stiffening reinforcement (140) arranged in at least one sidewall of the tire, said stiffening reinforcement (140) having a radially inner end (141) and a radially outer end (142), the stiffening reinforcement being formed of a plurality of stiffening elements oriented at an angle less than or equal to 10° relative to a circumferential direction of the tire.

Abstract: A copolymer of ethylene and of isoprene, which comprises from 10 to 35 mol % of isoprene units, at least 70% of which are in the 3,4 configuration and a portion of which is in the 1,2 configuration is provided. A copolymer of this type with a reduced crystallinity is synthesized with a much higher productivity than its homologues of ethylene and of butadiene, and also confers improved curing properties on rubber compositions.

Abstract: An assembly (1) for a tire comprises a first structure (10), a second structure (12) and bearing cord elements. The assembly comprises a gimped securing element (18) comprising a core (18a) around which a gimp yarn (18b) is wound. The core (18a) exhibits an elongation at rupture Arupture_core and the gimp yarn (18b) exhibits an elongation at rupture Arupture_gimp such that: Arupture_core<A1=h/(E+e1+e2) and Arupture_gimp>A1=h/(E+e1+e2) in which h is the conformation height of the assembly, e1 is the thickness of the first structure (10), e2 is the thickness of the second structure (12), and E is the lock length.