Patents by Inventor Guy Cagneaux

Guy Cagneaux 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: 8434533
    Abstract: A load-bearing structure for a bearing support intended to be mounted on a rim inside a tire fitted on a vehicle to support the tread of the tire in the event of a loss of inflation pressure is provided. The load-bearing structure includes a base, a crown, and an annular body connecting the base and the crown. The body includes a plurality of partitions distributed regularly circumferentially, extending axially substantially from one side to the other of the body and radially from the base to the crown with a mean orientation relative to the radial direction of between 10 and 50 degrees, in that two circumferentially adjacent partitions exhibit contrary orientations relative to the radial direction and in that two adjacent partitions define with the base and/or the crown cavities in the form of triangles or trapezoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignees: Michelin Recherche et Technique, S.A., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Loïc Albert, Xavier Brouwers, Guy Cagneaux, Fabien Mondini, Sébastien Rigo, Peter Szekely, Adam J. Van Der Lelij, Damien Van Der Zyppe
  • Publication number: 20110017377
    Abstract: A load-bearing structure for a bearing support intended to be mounted on a rim inside a tire fitted on a vehicle to support the tread of the tire in the event of a loss of inflation pressure is provided. The load-bearing structure includes a base, a crown, and an annular body connecting the base and the crown. The body includes a plurality of partitions distributed regularly circumferentially, extending axially substantially from one side to the other of the body and radially from the base to the crown with a mean orientation relative to the radial direction of between 10 and 50 degrees, in that two circumferentially adjacent partitions exhibit contrary orientations relative to the radial direction and in that two adjacent partitions define with the base and/or the crown cavities in the form of triangles or trapezoids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Loic Albert, Xavier Brouwers, Guy Cagneaux, Fabien Mondini, Sebastien Rigo, Peter Szekely, Adam J. Van Der Lelij, Damien Van Der Zyppe
  • Publication number: 20100108216
    Abstract: A vehicle rim (22-28; 251-252; 262; 272), of revolution, adapted for mounting a tire (30), this rim comprising a first (51; 512) and a second (52; 522) rim seat and a first and a second safety hump (571, 572) which are located axially to the inside of the seats, each of the rim seats being adapted to receive a bead (33) of the tire (30), each of the rim seats having a generatrix the axially inner end of which is on a circle of diameter DI greater than the diameter DE of the circle on which the axially outer end is located, at least one of the seats opening on to a groove (71-78; 791-793) arranged axially between the seat and the safety hump axially closest to the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Guy Cagneaux
  • Publication number: 20090139629
    Abstract: A tire for a vehicle wheel, in which at least one of the tire's beads includes: an anchoring zone for anchoring the reinforcement structure and including an upturn of the reinforcement structure around the bead wire, a bearing zone disposed radially and axially external to the bead wire and surrounded by the turned-up portion of the reinforcement structure, and an anchoring closure zone disposed substantially radially to the outside of the bead wire. The location of the anchoring closure zone is defined on one hand by an imaginary bead wire axis (At) which is substantially axial and passes substantially radially externally to the bead wire, and on the other hand an imaginary axis alpha which passes substantially radially externally to the bearing zone. The angle alpha has an angle alpha of less than 50° and preferably less than 45° as measured between the bead wire axis (At) and the axis alpha, in a clockwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Guy Cagneaux, Nicolas Janin
  • Publication number: 20090101262
    Abstract: Assembly comprising a vehicle wheel, with symmetry of revolution, comprising a disc and a rim, the said rim comprising a first and a second seat which seats are intended to receive and to hold a first and a second bead of the tire, each seat having a substantially frustoconical bottom locally coinciding with a cone of revolution coaxial with the rim and open towards the other seat, the said rim defining, at the level of an axial straight line passing through the farthermost points of the outer portions, a width Lj and, on the other hand, a tire for a vehicle wheel, comprising two sidewalls spaced axially apart and defining, at the level of an axial straight line passing through the farthermost points, a width Lf, in which when the said tire is mounted on the said rim and inflated close to its nominal working pressure and when the said tire is substantially unflattened, the said width Lf is greater than the said width Lj.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUES S.A.
    Inventors: Nicolas Janin, Guy Cagneaux
  • Publication number: 20080210357
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a rotationally symmetric vehicle wheel rim (26) designed for the mounting of a tyre, comprising a first seat (30) intended to be positioned towards the inside of the vehicle and a second seat (32), the first seat (30) being extended axially towards the second seat (32) by a safety hump (40) and comprising a frustoconical bottom (34) which coincides locally with a cone of revolution (46) open towards the second seat (32) and coaxial with the rim (26), and an inner edge (36) which extends the bottom of the first seat (30) towards the second seat (32), such that on the hump side the inner edge (36) of the first seat (30) is tangential to a cone of revolution (48) coaxial with the rim (26) and open towards the second seat (32, with an apex angle larger than 103°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Marc Calvet, Guy Cagneaux, Nicolas Janin, Michel Malevergne
  • Publication number: 20080135154
    Abstract: Tire designed to be mounted on a mounting rim comprising rim seats 11 that are inclined outwards. This tire comprises beads 1 designed to come into contact with the mounting rim, each bead having a circumferential reinforcing element which serves to anchor to a carcass reinforcement, this element having a center of rotation about which this element is able to rotate while the bead is being mounted on the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Nicolas Janin, Guy Cagneaux
  • Patent number: D386134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Establissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventors: Guy Cagneaux, Alain Delias, Jacques-Henri Martin
  • Patent number: D389106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventors: Guy Cagneaux, Alain Delias, Jacques-Henri Martin
  • Patent number: D392923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventors: Guy Cagneaux, Alain Delias, Jacques-Henri Martin
  • Patent number: D758289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ESTABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Guy Cagneaux, Stephanie Cambon, Arnaud Larregain