Patents by Inventor Jacky Pineau

Jacky Pineau 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: 11766895
    Abstract: A passenger vehicle tire having hooping layer (71) that has a force at break FR per mm of axial width of the hooping layer at least equal to 35 daN/mm and has a secant extension modulus MA at least equal to 250 daN/mm, for an applied force F equal to 15% of FR. Working reinforcement (6) comprises a single working layer (61) the working reinforcers of which form, with the circumferential direction (YY?), an angle AT at least equal to 30° and at most equal to 50°. The carcass reinforcers of the at least one carcass layer (81) form, with the circumferential direction (YY?) and in the equatorial plane (XZ), an angle AC2 at least equal to 55° and at most equal to 80° and having an orientation opposite of that of angle AT of the working reinforcers so that the carcass reinforcers and the working reinforcers constitute a triangulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Luc Bestgen, Christophe Le Clerc, Jacky Pineau
  • Patent number: 11642916
    Abstract: Non-pneumatic wheel (1) with an annular reinforcing structure (10) produced from at least one elastomer compound, arranged radially on the inside of a tread (7), the structure (10) having a plurality of reinforcing strips (12, 14) arranged in layers, the strips (12, 14) of each of the layers being arranged in juxtaposition in a substantially circumferential direction, the strips being coated with an elastomer composition (13), the structure (10) made of at least three layers of strips (12, 14), wherein the strips are formed of a laminate of at least two composite layers, each composite layer has fibres coated in a polymer matrix, the fibres making an angle ? with the circumferential direction, the difference in values of the said angles from one layer to the next being approximately 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Jośe Merino Lopez, Christopher Careme, Jacky Pineau, Timothy Brett Rhyne
  • Patent number: 11173755
    Abstract: A flexible adapter (1) for a rolling assembly, said rolling assembly comprising a tyre (2) having two beads (21), a rim (3) and two adapters (1) each intended to ensure the joint between one of the beads (21) and the rim (3), said rim (3) having two rim seats (31) each extended axially outwards by a rim flange (32), the rim seat having a diameter D3, the adapter comprising an axially outer end (11) and a body (12) oriented substantially axially and disposed between said axially outer end (11) and said axially inner end (10), said body (12) having a radially outer face (121) and a radially inner face (122), having the intersection between the shoulder (111) of the axially outer end (11) of the adapter (1) and the substantially tapered face of said adapter seat (13) forming a circle of diameter D1, said adapter seat (13) having a substantially tapered face of angle ?, in which the difference “d” between the diameters D1 and D3, d=D1?D3, lies between 25.9 mm and 30.4 mm and the angle ? is greater than 0.5°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Jose Merino, Michel Ahouanto, Luc Bestgen, Henri Hinc, Jacky Pineau, Arthur Topin
  • Patent number: 10953702
    Abstract: Adapter for a rolling assembly intended to be fitted to a passenger vehicle, with improved mountability and a high capacity for absorbing large deformations in the event of pinch shocks. The adapter has reinforcing element (15) of the axially outer end (9) wholly situated axially on the outside of bearing face (21) and radially on the outside of adapter seat (18), and a main reinforcement (17) having a radial superposition of at least two layers of reinforcers, the reinforcers being mutually parallel within one and the same layer and crossed with one another from one layer to the next. Each of the layers of main reinforcement (17) comprises reinforcers which make, with a circumferential direction (XX?) of the tire, an angle at least equal to 30°, and coated with a polymer material having an elastic modulus at 10% elongation at most equal to 70 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Michel Ahouanto, Bertrand Daval, Arthur Topin, Jacky Pineau
  • Publication number: 20210070106
    Abstract: Non-pneumatic wheel (1) with an annular reinforcing structure (10) produced from at least one elastomer compound, arranged radially on the inside of a tread (7), the structure (10) having a plurality of reinforcing strips (12, 14) arranged in layers, the strips (12, 14) of each of the layers being arranged in juxtaposition in a substantially circumferential direction, the strips being coated with an elastomer composition (13), the structure (10) made of at least three layers of strips (12, 14), wherein the strips are formed of a laminate of at least two composite layers, each composite layer has fibres coated in a polymer matrix, the fibres making an angle ? with the circumferential direction, the difference in values of the said angles from one layer to the next being approximately 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Jose MERINO LOPEZ, Christopher CAREME, Jacky PINEAU, Timothy Brett RHYNE
  • Patent number: 10933695
    Abstract: A tire includes a carcass ply, two beads, two sidewalls, and a crown reinforcing zone. The carcass ply connects the two beads by way of the two sidewalls. The crown reinforcing zone is positioned radially external to the carcass ply. The crown reinforcing zone includes a plurality of reinforcing strips disposed in at least two layers. The reinforcing strips are coated in an elastomeric composition. A mean overlap between the reinforcing strips of the two layers is greater than 40%. The reinforcing strips are made of a thermoplastic film having a modulus greater than 0.9 GPa, and preferably greater than 2 GPa, in a main direction and in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Augustin Bosquet, Jacky Pineau, Thomas Guy, Christophe Le Clerc, Anne-Lise Thuilliez
  • Patent number: 10682891
    Abstract: Tire with sidewalls (6) having, on their outer surfaces, a set of protuberances (8) that alternate with voids (9). The tread (4) comprises a circumferential groove (10) at at least one axially outermost end (4a). Each protuberance (8) is disposed at the surface of a sidewall, the different protuberances being disposed regularly or irregularly and continuously or discontinuously between a point A and a point E. The inner wall (2a) of the carcass ply (2) of the tire is partially or entirely covered with at least one layer of a self-sealing composition (2b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Jacky Pineau, Hervé Ferigo, José Merino Lopez
  • Patent number: 10562348
    Abstract: A running set comprising: a tire (10) comprising two beads (20); a mounting rim (500) of which the width is greater than or equal to 55% and less than or equal to 80% of the maximum axial width of the tire inflated to its service pressure; and at least one adapter (100) which provides the connection between the mounting rim and a bead of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Michel Ahouanto, Jose Merino Lopez, Jacky Pineau, Arthur Topin
  • Patent number: 10328752
    Abstract: Adapter providing the connection between one tire bead and the rim. An axially inner end of the adapter is mounted on the rim seat, an axially outer end is mounted on the rim seat, a body connects said outer end to said inner end, a substantially cylindrical adapter seat receives one of said beads, and an adapter bearing face is substantially contained in a plane perpendicular to the axis. The reinforcer element of the axially outer end is entirely situated axially outside the bearing face. The body comprises, opposite the adapter seat, an annular seat protuberance, said protuberance comprising at least one rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Arthur Topin, Michel Ahouanto, Jacky Pineau
  • Publication number: 20190135049
    Abstract: A flexible adapter (1) for a rolling assembly, said rolling assembly comprising a tyre (2) having two beads (21), a rim (3) and two adapters (1) each intended to ensure the joint between one of the beads (21) and the rim (3), said rim (3) having two rim seats (31) each extended axially outwards by a rim flange (32), the rim seat having a diameter D3, the adapter comprising an axially outer end (11) and a body (12) oriented substantially axially and disposed between said axially outer end (11) and said axially inner end (10), said body (12) having a radially outer face (121) and a radially inner face (122), having the intersection between the shoulder (111) of the axially outer end (11) of the adapter (1) and the substantially tapered face of said adapter seat (13) forming a circle of diameter D1, said adapter seat (13) having a substantially tapered face of angle ?, in which the difference “d” between the diameters D1 and D3, d=D1?D3, lies between 25.9 mm and 30.4 mm and the angle ? is greater than 0.5°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: JOSE MERINO, MICHEL AHOUANTO, LUC BESTGEN, HENRI HINC, JACKY PINEAU, ARTHUR TOPIN
  • Publication number: 20180207987
    Abstract: Tire (1) comprising a carcass ply (2) that connects two beads (5) by way of two sidewalls (3), said carcass ply (2) being surmounted radially on the outside by a crown reinforcing zone (10) comprising a plurality of reinforcing strips (12, 14) disposed in at least two layers and coated in an elastomeric composition (13, 15), the mean overlap between the strips of the two layers being greater than 40%, the reinforcing strips (12, 14) being made of a thermoplastic film having a modulus greater than 0.9 GPa and preferably greater than 2 GPa in the main direction and in the transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: AUGUSTIN BOSQUET, JACKY PINEAU, THOMAS GUY, CHRISTOPHE LE CLERC, ANNE-LISE THUILLIEZ
  • Publication number: 20180147896
    Abstract: Adapter for a rolling assembly intended to be fitted to a passenger vehicle, with improved mountability and a high capacity for absorbing large deformations in the event of pinch shocks. The adapter has reinforcing element (15) of the axially outer end (9) wholly situated axially on the outside of bearing face (21) and radially on the outside of adapter seat (18), and a main reinforcement (17) having a radial superposition of at least two layers of reinforcers, the reinforcers being mutually parallel within one and the same layer and crossed with one another from one layer to the next. Each of the layers of main reinforcement (17) comprises reinforcers which make, with a circumferential direction (XX?) of the tire, an angle at least equal to 30°, and coated with a polymer material having an elastic modulus at 10% elongation at most equal to 70 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Michel AHOUANTO, Bertrand DAVAL, Arthur TOPIN, Jacky PINEAU
  • Publication number: 20180117970
    Abstract: Hooping layer (71) of a passenger vehicle tire has a force at break FR per mm of axial width of the hooping layer at least equal to 35 daN/mm, an elongation at break AR at least equal to 5%, and a secant extension modulus MA at least equal to 250 daN/mm, for an applied force F equal to 15% of FR. Working reinforcement (6) comprises single working layer (61) the working reinforcers of which form, with circumferential direction (YY?), an angle AT at least equal to 30° and at most equal to 50°. The carcass reinforcers of at least one carcass layer (81) form, with circumferential direction (YY?) and in equatorial plane (XZ), angle AC2 at least equal to 55° and at most equal to 80° and having an orientation opposite to angle AT of the working reinforcers so that the carcass reinforcers and the working reinforcers constitute a triangulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Christophe LE CLERC, Jacky PINEAU, Richard CORNILLE
  • Patent number: 9937749
    Abstract: Adapter for a rolling assembly having an axis of rotation comprising a tire having two beads, a rim with rim well (13) between two rim seats (12) each with an axially outer end, and width W between axially outer ends of these rim seats. The adapter, coupled between each bead and each rim seat, has two axially outer ends (2) each comprising seat (3) and bearing face (4) in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation. Body (5) connects outer axial ends (2) and comprises a main reinforcement, face (16) in contact with each seat (12) and with well (13) and positioned radially on the inside. The adapter has a total axial width L between each seat (3), and 60%?W/L?20%. Body (5) comprises immobilizing element (8) to wedge the adapter in the rim well (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Michel Ahouanto, Luc Bestgen, Jacky Pineau, Arthur Topin
  • Publication number: 20180093532
    Abstract: A passenger vehicle tire having hooping layer (71) that has a force at break FR per mm of axial width of the hooping layer at least equal to 35 daN/mm and has a secant extension modulus MA at least equal to 250 daN/mm, for an applied force F equal to 15% of FR. Working reinforcement (6) comprises a single working layer (61) the working reinforcers of which form, with the circumferential direction (YY?), an angle AT at least equal to 30° and at most equal to 50°. The carcass reinforcers of the at least one carcass layer (81) form, with the circumferential direction (YY?) and in the equatorial plane (XZ), an angle AC2 at least equal to 55° and at most equal to 80° and having an orientation opposite of that of angle AT of the working reinforcers so that the carcass reinforcers and the working reinforcers constitute a triangulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Luc BESTGEN, Christophe LE CLERC, Jacky PINEAU
  • Publication number: 20170355232
    Abstract: Tire with sidewalls (6) having, on their outer surfaces, a set of protuberances (8) that alternate with voids (9). The tread (4) comprises a circumferential groove (10) at at least one axially outermost end (4a). Each protuberance (8) is disposed at the surface of a sidewall, the different protuberances being disposed regularly or irregularly and continuously or discontinuously between a point A and a point E. The inner wall (2a) of the carcass ply (2) of the tire is partially or entirely covered with at least one layer of a self-sealing composition (2b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Jacky PINEAU, Herve FERIGO, Jose MERINO LOPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170291457
    Abstract: Adapter providing the connection between one tire bead and the rim. An axially inner end of the adapter is mounted on the rim seat, an axially outer end is mounted on the rim seat, a body connects said outer end to said inner end, a substantially cylindrical adapter seat receives one of said beads, and an adapter bearing face is substantially contained in a plane perpendicular to the axis. The reinforcer element of the axially outer end is entirely situated axially outside the bearing face. The body comprises, opposite the adapter seat, an annular seat protuberance, said protuberance comprising at least one rubber composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Arthur TOPIN, Michel AHOUANTO, Jacky PINEAU
  • Publication number: 20170036483
    Abstract: Adapter for a rolling assembly having an axis of rotation comprising a tire having two beads, a rim with rim well (13) between two rim seats (12) each with an axially outer end, and width W between axially outer ends of these rim seats. The adapter, coupled between each bead and each rim seat, has two axially outer ends (2) each comprising seat (3) and bearing face (4) in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation. Body (5) connects outer axial ends (2) and comprises a main reinforcement, face (16) in contact with each seat (12) and with well (13) and positioned radially on the inside. The adapter has a total axial width L between each seat (3), and 60%?W/L?20%. Body (5) comprises immobilizing element (8) to wedge the adapter in the rim well (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Michel AHOUANTO, Luc BESTGEN, Jacky PINEAU, Arthur TOPIN
  • Publication number: 20170001472
    Abstract: An adapter for a rolling assembly having a rotation axis and comprising a tire having two beads, a rim, said adapter having an axially inner end to be mounted on the rim seat and comprises an inner reinforcer element, an axially outer end to be mounted on the rim seat and comprises an outer reinforcer element, a body that connects said outer end to said inner end so as to form a single piece and comprises a main reinforcement connecting said outer reinforcer and said inner reinforcer, a substantially cylindrical adapter seat receiving one of said beads, an adapter bearing face substantially contained in a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis. The reinforcer of the axially outer end is entirely outside the bearing face, and the body comprises, opposite the adapter seat, an annular seat reinforcer having a compression modulus greater than or equal to 1 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Michel AHOUANTO, Jacky PINEAU, Arthur TOPIN, Luc BESTGEN
  • Publication number: 20160311255
    Abstract: A running set comprising: a tire (10) comprising two beads (20); a mounting rim (500) of which the width is greater than or equal to 55% and less than or equal to 80% of the maximum axial width of the tire inflated to its service pressure; and at least one adapter (100) which provides the connection between the mounting rim and a bead of the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Michel AHOUANTO, Jose MERINO, Jacky PINEAU, Arthur TOPIN