Patents by Inventor Benjamin VILPERT

Benjamin VILPERT 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).

  • Publication number: 20250222723
    Abstract: A tire (10) comprises a crown block (12), two beads (32), and two sidewalls (30) connecting each bead (32) to the crown block (12). The crown block (12) comprises a crown reinforcement (16) comprising a corrugated crown layer (24, 26, 28) comprising corrugations. The tire (10) comprises a sidewall insert (90) comprising a rigid elastomeric composition (92, 93, 94) of which the radially exterior end (96) is arranged: radially to the outside of the equator (E) of the tyre, and axially to the inside of the axial end (241, 242) of the radially innermost crown layer (24) of the crown reinforcement (16) and at an axial distance ENG?20 mm from the axial end (242).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: WALTER LEE WILLARD, BENJAMIN VILPERT, PATRICE FRAYSSE, FRANCOIS-XAVIER BRUNEAU
  • Publication number: 20170326916
    Abstract: Tire (1) for a motorized two-wheeled vehicle of the motorbike type. A good compromise between the stability of the motorbike in a straight line at high speed and the stability of the motorbike in a curved path with a high camber angle is achieved with reinforcers of a first carcass layer (61) that form, with the circumferential direction (XX?), an angle (A1) at most equal to 75°, the reinforcers of a second carcass layer (62) form, with the circumferential direction, an angle (A2) at least equal to 80° and at most equal to 90°, the difference between the angles (A1, A2) of the respective reinforcers of the first and second carcass layers (61, 62) is at least equal to 10° and at most equal to 20° and the angles (A1, A2) of the respective reinforcers of the first and second carcass layers (61, 62) are oriented in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Benjamin VILPERT, Alexandra CURAT, Christophe LAURENT, Romain BOUCHET