Abstract: An electric braking system is provided for a road vehicle that includes at least one wheel connected for rotation to at least one rotary electric machine. At least one electronic wheel control module controls an electric machine of a corresponding wheel, The electric braking system includes: a central unit (3) for ensuring management of a vehicle displacement, the central unit controlling the at least one electronic wheel control module (23); a braking control available to a driver, the braking control being connected mechanically to at least: a first sensor (C1) outputting a vehicle braking control signal having a given amplitude representing a total braking force desired for the vehicle, and a second sensor (C2) outputting a vehicle braking control signal having a given amplitude representing the total braking force desired for the vehicle.

Abstract: A method of quantifying the utilization of a maximum grip potential of a tire running on the ground. At two distinct azimuth angles, at least two respective values are determined for a differential extension of the tread of the tire or for a shear of the tread that is homogeneous with said differential extension. The utilization is quantified with the help of a function of the two determined values.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is the use of cohesive, low-hysteresis compositions comprising small amounts of reinforcing fillers to produce profiled filing members arranged in the bottom zone of tires in order to improve the life thereof.

Abstract: A tire includes a reinforced summit, an inner carcass structure, an outer carcass structure, two sidewalls, and two beads each having a base adapted to be mounted on a mounting rim. Each bead is extended radially upward by a sidewall portion joining the summit. The tire is adapted for continued mobility in a substantially deflated condition and includes runflat inserts provided in an axially inner portion of respective sidewalls. The reinforced summit is provided with at least one reinforcing cord arrangement disposed between the inner carcass structure and the outer carcass structure. The outer carcass structure is disposed radially inwardly from the summit and extends towards the shoulder zones where extremities of the outer carcass structure are situated.

Abstract: A device for fixing a module to the internal wall of a tire. The device includes a support secured to the tire, the support having at least two independent straps secured to the support and means for immobilizing the module, the straps being oriented radially.

Abstract: A tire comprising a carcass-type reinforcement structure formed from reinforcing elements anchored on each side of the tire to a bead, the base of which is intended to be mounted on a rim seat, each bead being extended radially outwards by a sidewall, the sidewalls joining, radially outwards, a tread and having, beneath the tread, a crown reinforcement structure consisting of at least two layers of reinforcing elements called working layers, said reinforcing elements of the working layers being of identical nature. In a given circumferential plane, the extensional stiffness per unit width of a first working layer measured along the principal direction of the reinforcing elements of said first layer is strictly higher than the extensional stiffness per unit width of a second working layer measured along the principal direction of the reinforcing elements of said second working layer, the second working layer being radially further away from the carcass structure than said first working layer.

Abstract: A tire tread comprising a plurality of sipes (30), each sipe being delimited by two opposing main walls (31, 32), each of the said walls consisting of a mean surface of which the intersection with the tread surface in the initial condition forms an edge, the mean width of each sipe measured as the mean distance between the edges formed by the opposing main walls (31, 32) of the said sipe on the tread surface in the initial condition is at least equal to 1.5 mm, each of the main walls (31, 32) comprising at least one locking region (310, 320), each locking region collaborating with a locking region opposite in such a way as to mechanically block relative movements of the said walls at least when the tire is in contact with the road surface.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread in which there is provided a molded channel. The molded channel is interrupted by at least one furrow of the tread and extends along a curved path. The path of the molded channel is preferably substantially parallel to an outside surface of the tread in a radial section plane of the tire.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tire comprising beads each containing at least one circumferential reinforcement structure; a crown comprising a reinforcement structure surmounted radially towards the outside by a tread; on either side of the crown, a sidewall providing the connection to each bead; at least one carcass reinforcement extending from one bead to the other, passing through the crown, and anchored to at least one circumferential reinforcement structure within each bead, the carcass reinforcement being formed of at least one rubberized ply comprising reinforcing threads extending substantially radially, that is to say forming an angle of between 80° and 100° with the circumferential direction; at least one junction zone formed by superposition of the ply on itself, this zone being oriented substantially radially; at least one cover strip covering part of a junction zone, each cover strip being formed of a rubber composition reinforced by a plurality of reinforcing threads, the reinforcing threads of each

Abstract: A mounted assembly of the tubeless type for a bicycle, includes a rim and a tire having beads. The rim includes two wings attached to two seats which receive the tire beads. A tire reception zone is formed between the wings. The rim and/or the tire includes a stabilizing structure for stabilizing the air pressure at the level of the tire's outer surface, in zones which are neither in contact with the ground nor in contact with the rim, to a value of less than 2 bar. The stabilizing structure enables air to be conducted from the tire to atmosphere if a bead loses contact with its seat. The stabilizing structure can be in the form of holes in the wings and/or the seats, or in the form of channels or projections disposed on the wings. Alternatively, the stabilizing structure can be in the form of projections formed on the tire sidewall and arranged to contact the wings.

Abstract: A subject-matter of the present invention is a rubber composition intended for the manufacture of tyres or of tyre semi-finished products, based on at least one isoprene elastomer, an inorganic filler as reinforcing filler and a polyfunctional organosiloxane coupling agent capable of providing the bonding between the reinforcing inorganic filler and the isoprene elastomer, comprising per molecule, grafted to its silicon atoms, on the one hand at least one hydroxyl or hydrolysable functional group allowing it to be grafted to the reinforcing inorganic filler and, on the other hand, at least one group bearing at least one azodicarbonyl functional group —CO—N?N—CO— allowing it to be grafted to the isoprene elastomer.

Abstract: An elastomeric composition usable for the manufacture of tires, based on at least (i) a diene elastomer, (ii) an inorganic filler as reinforcing filler and (iii), as (inorganic filler/diene elastomer) coupling agent, a organosilicon compound which is at least bifunctional and can be grafted on to the elastomer by means of a sulfur group having a polythiosulfenamide function, of formula: ?Si—A—Sx—NR1R2,??(I) in which: A is a divalent bond group, whether straight-chain or branched, which makes it possible to join the polythiosulfenamide group to a silicon atom of the organosilicon compound; x is an integer or fractional number of from 2 to 4; R1 represents hydrogen or a monovalent hydrocarbon group; R2 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group selected from among C3-C8 alkyls, whether straight-chain or branched, C5-C10 cycloalkyls, C6-C18 aryls and (C6-C18)aryl-(C1-C8)alkyls; R1 and R2 possibly forming together and with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded a single hydrocarbon ring.

Abstract: A process and a device for moulding elastomeric articles. The device comprises: a mould (2) having a mould cavity (3); injection means (4), for injecting an uncured elastomeric material (1) into the mould cavity; a shut-off valve (9), for shutting off the mould cavity, which can move between an open position and a closed position; and control means (10), for controlling the temperature of the elastomeric compound contained in the mould cavity.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising the following compound: R1—NH-phenyl-NH—R2 where the amino moieties occupy the 1 and 4 positions of the phenyl ring, and R1 and R2 are selected from the group consisting of H, C1 to C3 straight chain or branched alkyl groups, and wherein R1 and R2 may be the same or different; and where the t90, isothermal at 125° C. is within thirty percent of the t90, after 28 days aging at forty degrees Celsius (40° C.), as the unaged green rubber composition. In another embodiment, R1 and R2 are selected from C4 to C5 straight chain or branched alkyl groups. In another embodiment of the invention, R1 and R2 are selected from C6 to C15 straight chain or branched alkyl groups. In another embodiment of the invention, the rubber compound is greater than 5 parts by weight per hundred parts of the rubber composition.

Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring apparatus includes a pressure transducer and a valve stem. A spring member connects the pressure transducer to the valve stem. The spring member facilitates relative movement between the pressure transducer and the valve stem.

Abstract: A device for laying reinforcement cords (41) of a tire. The device is formed of a first frame (1) comprising a motor-driven shaft (10) with an axis XX?, the motor-driven shaft (10) supporting a reference form on which the blank (4) of the tire rests. The first frame (1) itself is mounted rotatably about an axis ZZ? on a second frame (2) in such a manner that the axis ZZ? has a point of intersection with the axis of rotation XX? and belongs to the equatorial plane (E) of the blank (4) or of the reference form on which the blank rests. A third frame (3) is rigidly connected to the second frame (2), the third frame (3) supporting an apparatus (13) for laying the lengths of cords (41) by projection of the lengths of cords directly into their final position on the receiving surface formed by the tire blank (4).

Abstract: Tire comprising at least one carcass-type reinforcing structure (6) anchored on each side of the tire. The anchoring includes a turning up of the carcass-type reinforcing structure around a bead core (15) in such a way as to form a turned-up section (8). The tire also includes at least one circumferential bielastic reinforcing element (10) made of a bielastic fabric, in which the fabric employed is a bielastic knitted fabric, that is a stitched fabric in which the loops forming the stitches are capable of moving relative to each other. The at least one bielastic reinforcing element (10) being arranged so as to extend substantially parallel along a portion of the reinforcing structure (6) which is situated in that region of the bead (4) of the tire that is axially outward relative to the reinforcing structure, in the immediate vicinity of the latter.

Abstract: Tyre and rubber composition for tyre or tyre semi-finished product, based on at least one isoprene elastomer (for example natural rubber), an inorganic filler as reinforcing filler (for example silica) and a coupling system which provides the bonding between the said reinforcing inorganic filler and the isoprene elastomer, the said coupling system comprising, in combination: a monofunctional covering agent (for example a polyorganosiloxane oil) capable of bonding to the surface functional sites of the inorganic filler; and as coupling agent, an at least bifunctional organosilicon compound (for example an organosilane or an organosiloxane) which can be grafted to the elastomer by means of an azodicarbonyl functional group (—CO—N?N—CO—).