Patents by Inventor Cliff Post

Cliff Post 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).

  • Patent number: 7469732
    Abstract: A device is fitted into a well of a one-piece wheel rim so as to prevent a tire fitted onto the rim from rolling off this rim. A process for manufacturing this device is disclosed as is a fitted assembly for a motor vehicle comprising the rim, the cover and the device. The device has a belt having two ends and a catching blocks for connecting the ends together, which is intended to clamp the belt of annular shape around the rim well, and this device is such that the belt includes a plurality of filling elements, spaced apart between the ends, which elements are designed to at least partly fill the well and are connected together via at least one flexible linking element intended to form an annular sector around the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Olivier Heuze, Cliff Post, Joe Duffy
  • Publication number: 20060096684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device designed to be fitted into a well of a one-piece wheel rim so as to prevent a tire cover fitted onto said rim from rolling off this rim, to a process for manufacturing this device and to a fitted assembly for a motor vehicle comprising said rim, said cover and said device. A device according to the invention comprises a belt having two ends and a connecting means for connecting said ends together, which means is intended to clamp said belt of annular shape around the rim well, and this device is such that said belt includes a plurality of filling elements, spaced apart between said ends, which elements are designed to at least partly fill said well and are connected together via at least one flexible linking element intended to form an annular sector around said well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Olivier Heuze, Cliff Post, Joe Duffy