Patents by Inventor Isabelle Riou

Isabelle Riou 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: 9505917
    Abstract: A tire, the inner liner of which comprises a rubber composition based on at least predominantly a highly unsaturated diene elastomer, a reinforcing organic filler, graphite, chalk, a plasticizing hydrocarbon resin, the glass transition temperature, Tg, of which is greater than 20° C. and the softening point of which is less than 170° C. The use of such a composition in the inner liner of the tire, including graphite and a non-reinforcing filler of chalk type, makes it possible to notably improve the airtightness properties with respect to a control composition which comprises only graphite and which already performs very well in this aspect, but also with respect to a control composition conventionally used in the inner liners of tires, while maintaining a good level of the stiffness and processability properties as the conventional control compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Isabelle Riou, Aline Riou, Jean-Luc Cabioch
  • Publication number: 20150284548
    Abstract: A tire, the inner liner of which comprises a rubber composition based on at least predominantly a highly unsaturated diene elastomer, a reinforcing organic filler, graphite, chalk, a plasticizing hydrocarbon resin, the glass transition temperature, Tg, of which is greater than 20° C. and the softening point of which is less than 170° C. The use of such a composition in the inner liner of the tire, including graphite and a non-reinforcing filler of chalk type, makes it possible to notably improve the airtightness properties with respect to a control composition which comprises only graphite and which already performs very well in this aspect, but also with respect to a control composition conventionally used in the inner liners of tires, while maintaining a good level of the stiffness and processability properties as the conventional control compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicants: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A., COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Isabelle Riou, Aline Riou, Jean-Luc Cabioch
  • Publication number: 20140345774
    Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, composed of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the said tire comprising a crown reinforcement, itself topped radially by a tread, the said tread being joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cords exhibiting, in the “permeability” test, a flow rate of less than 20 cm3/min, at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement is provided, on the surface of at least one calendering layer, with textile threads and the said at least one calendering layer of the said at least one carcass reinforcement layer is an elastomeric mixture based on natural rubber or on synthetic polyisoprene and on a reinforcing filler conferring high cohesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Charlotte Caffeau, Sébastien Noel, Isabelle Riou