Abstract: A lubricant composition for lubricating an interface between an inner surface of a tire and a safety support ring in a run-flat tire system that includes a lubricating agent selected from glycerol, polyalkylene glycol or combinations thereof and a thixotropic agent. The thixotropic agent is an organoclay comprising a mineral clay mixture treated with an alkyl quaternary ammonium salt, wherein the mineral clay mixture comprises at least one of sepiolite, palygorskite and a smectite and wherein a combined amount of palygorskite and sepiolite in the mineral clay mixture is between about 50 wt. % and about 100 wt. % with a balance of the mineral clay mixture being essentially the smectite. The lubricating agent may also be selected from a copolymer that is a mixture of alkylene oxides, preferably a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide.

Abstract: Heavy goods vehicle tire, in at least one of the beads of which the following three conditions (A) to (C) are met: (A) the angle formed between the straight line L1 connecting: (i) the centre of the circle of the circular arc forming the rim hook and (ii) the radially outermost point of the wrapped-around portion of the carcass ply, and the axial direction, is greater than or equal to 30°, and less than or equal to 60°; (B) the minimum distance D between the outbound portion of the carcass ply, and the free end of the wrapped-around portion of the carcass ply is less than or equal to 50% of the max distance Dmax between the outbound portion and the wrapped-around portion of the carcass ply; and (C) the tire further comprises, axially adjacent to the carcass ply, an additional reinforcing ply, in which the angle formed between the straight line L2 connecting (i) the said centre of the circle of the circular arc and (ii) the radially outermost point of the additional reinforcing ply, and the axial direction is

Abstract: A method for determining the operating parameters of a device for manufacturing a reinforcement from a thread (1) laid directly in its final position by projecting lengths of thread (10) onto a receiving surface (S).

Abstract: A puncture-resistant multilayer laminate that is impermeable to inflation gases, comprising: a gastight first elastomer layer comprising a polystirene/polyisobutylene block copolymer thermoplastic elastomer, and optionally an extender oil with a content within a range of 0 to less than 100 phr; and a self-sealing second elastomer layer comprising a thermoplastic stirene elastomer, identical to or different from the first elastomer, and an extender oil with a content greater than 200 phr.

Abstract: A method for evaluating the transversal grip of a type of tires on a snow-covered ground, of providing this type of tires to a vehicle, driving this vehicle at the transversal grip limit on a snow-covered track, and producing instantaneous measures of the vehicle transversal acceleration while it travels on the track. Track (P) includes a plurality of turns (V1, V2) making it possible to establish a transversal acceleration steady state, the transversal acceleration instantaneous measures being subjected to a low-pass filtering, and the transversal grip of a tire is judged as being even better the higher the transversal acceleration values obtained with this tire are.

Abstract: Tire tread including a pattern formed by at two ridges of mean width L, which include a plurality of incisions whose traces on the contact surface extend between two points of intersection A and B, the segment AB making an angle with the transverse direction of the tread at most equal to 40°, the tread wherein each incision, of mean width E, includes a succession of incision portions, some of said incision portions having, on any surface parallel to the contact surface in the new condition and located between said surface in the new condition and ? of the maximum depth of the incision, traces that make an average angle ? at most equal to 15° with the longitudinal direction of the tread, said portions having a total length Lt which is at least equal to one-fifth of the ridge width; and in that the incision portions whose traces make an average angle ? are provided on their opposite walls with relief elements of amplitude K designed to cooperate with one another to block relative movements between one incision

Abstract: Tire having two beads, at least one bead 1 of which has a seat 11 inclined toward the outside, this seat 11 being extended axially and radially to the outside by a lateral part 12. This bead 1 includes an anchoring device formed from at least one circumferential bead reinforcing element 5 and from a wedge-shaped profiled element 7 made of a rubber compound. A radial carcass reinforcement 4 is anchored in each bead to the circumferential bead reinforcing element 5, this tire being characterized in that the outwardly inclined bead seat 11 includes at least one circumferentially continuous rib 9 making at least one complete revolution, said at least one rib 9 being located axially to the outside of a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the tire and axially tangential to the outside of the circumferential bead reinforcing element 5 in order to create a continuous line of contact pressure equal to or greater than the inflation pressure of the tire.

Abstract: A member forming a support for a device includes a mass of rubber delimited by two substantially parallel opposite surfaces forming respectively a supporting surface and a surface for connection with a tyre. The mass includes an opening arranged in the connecting surface delimiting a recess arranged in the mass, and the opening does not lead to outside of the connecting surface.

Abstract: Measuring unit with at least a pressure sensor and signal transmission means, intended to be fitted on a tire/wheel assembly, characterized in that it comprises a logic indicator with two states, active and inactive, and in that the logic indicator becomes active each time the pressure measured by the pressure sensor is below a given threshold, close to zero.

Abstract: A CABAC-type encoding device for encoding an initial flow of binary digital information for generating an output flow for forming video images after decoding, includes: elements for analyzing successive sequences of bits of the initial binary flow, bit-by-bit, and for deducing, for each bit, an interval representing the occurrence probability associated with the bit, the interval being defined by the size thereof and the lower boundary thereof; elements for analyzing the interval and ensuring a renormalization thereof. The elements for ensuring the renormalization include: a reference table containing, for each possible value of the lower boundary and the size, sequences of bits to be inserted into the output flow, and the number of unknown bits waiting to be inserted for this specific renormalization step; and elements for determining the address of the data, in this reference table.

Abstract: Device for manufacturing a reinforcement from a thread laid directly in its final position by spraying lengths of the thread onto a receiving surface. The thread lengths are delivered from a conduit to a guide as the conduit rotates about an axis. The guide includes deflectors forming therebetween a slot having a thread inlet orifice and a thread spray (discharge) orifice spaced apart along the guide's height. The separation between the deflectors narrows toward the spray orifice, wherein the deflectors form therebetween an angle in the range of 3° and 7° when measured at any point along the height of the slot.

Abstract: Process for molding and vulcanizing a tire, in which a tire blank is placed in a curing press including a mold intended to form the outer shape of the tire, and a pressing member for transmitting the molding pressure and the heat needed to vulcanize the internal portion of the tire blank. A removable elastic membrane, which includes perforations passing completely therethrough, is interposed, during the molding and the vulcanizing step, between the inner surface of the tire and the pressing member, so as to form, by the constituent material of the internal wall of the tire flowing into the perforations, noise-attenuating protuberances distributed over the internal surface of the tire.

Abstract: Plasticizing system usable for the plasticizing of a diene rubber composition. The plasticizing system is based on an MES or TDAE oil and a polylimonene resin. The rubber composition has an improved resistance to abrasion and to cuts, said composition being based on at least a diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a cross-linking system and a plasticizing system comprising between 5 and 35 phr of an MES or TDAE oil, and between 5 and 35 phr of a polylimonene resin (phr=parts by weight per hundred of elastomer). Advantageously, this plasticizing system furthermore comprises an unsaturated (C12-C22) fatty acid triester of glycerol, preferably a glycerol trioleate. A process is disclosed for preparing such a composition. The composition can be used for the manufacture of a finished article or a semi-finished product intended for a suspension system of a motor vehicle, in particular a tire or a tread of such a tire.

Abstract: An encoding device and method, of CABAC type, for an initial stream of binary digital information intended to generate an outgoing stream to form video images, after decoding, the method included the following steps: bit-by-bit analysis of the successive series of bits of the initial binary stream so as to deduce therefrom, for each bit, an interval representing the probability of occurrence associated with this bit, this interval being defined by its size CIR and its lower bound CIL, analysis of this interval so as to ensure, if necessary, a renormalization thereof. The renormalization is non-iterative and for each bit of the initial stream is compliant with the appended figure in which: M is the length of the sequence S of high-order bits common to CIL and CIR, N is the integer number such that CIR.2N-1<0.25?CIR.2N, BO is the number of bits waiting to be inserted.

Abstract: In a method of detecting an occurrence of hydroplaning of a tire of a vehicle travelling on wet ground, a tread of the tire of the vehicle is equipped with one or more sensors each capable of measuring a compression experienced locally by the tread when the tire is rolling on the ground and of producing a signal corresponding to these measurements. According to the method, measurements are obtained of a compression when the tire is rolling on the ground; a signal corresponding to these measurements is produced; a portion of the signal relating to a passing of one or more sensors into an apparent area of contact between the tire and the ground is extracted; an instantaneous value (?E, Rz), corresponding to a presence of an indirect contact region of the apparent area of contact between the tread and the ground, is determined from the extracted portion of the signal; and an alarm is triggered when the instantaneous value satisfies a given relationship.

Abstract: A tire comprising an airtight rubber cover (2) and a reinforcing structure essentially formed of a plurality of fibres (30, 40) embedded in the rubber and arranged in layers, this reinforcing structure comprising at least one carcass layer (3) and one crown layer (4). The fibres (30) and (40) of these layers (3, 4) are connected together and oriented, with respect to the median plane (P) of the tire, at respective angles of the order of 90 degrees and 0 degrees, each of these fibres (30, 40) also having a connected cross section of flattened shape.

Abstract: Device for manufacturing a reinforcement from a thread laid directly in its final place by casting lengths of the said thread onto a receiving surface, the said device comprising a feed means (200) for feeding the thread (1) from a source of thread (10), a rotary assembly comprising a rotary guide (2) of axis rr? fixed to a hollow shaft (20, 205) constituting the axis of rotation (RR?) of the said guide (2) so that the outer radial end (21) of the said guide (2) is directed substantially radially with respect to the axis of rotation of the hollow shaft (RR?), the said guide receiving the thread (1) that comes from the said feed means via its central end (22) that is the opposite end to the said outer radial end (21), the said thread leaving via the said outer radial end (21), the said feed means controlling the linear speed at which the thread advances inside the said rotary guide (2), means (13, 131) for rotating the hollow shaft, and means (31) for cutting the thread, acting on the thread in such a way as t

Abstract: A tire with a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement formed from at least two working crown layers of inextensible reinforcing elements and from at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements positioned radially between two working crown layers, the working crown layers adjacent to the layer of circumferential reinforcing elements being on each side of the equatorial plane and in the axial continuation of the layer of circumferential reinforcing elements coupled over an axial width, in order thereafter to be decoupled. A layer of polymer blend having a thickness greater than 1.5 mm over an axial width greater than 0.1×d is positioned axially between the axially exterior end of the layer of circumferential reinforcing elements and the axially interior end of the coupling zone of the working crown layers.