Patents by Inventor Jacques BABAUD
Jacques BABAUD 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).
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Patent number: 12077020Abstract: The tire includes a summit surrounded by side portions terminating in beads provided to cooperate with a mounting rim. A carcass reinforcement is surmounted by a summit reinforcement composed of reinforcing plies. When the tire is mounted onto its standard mounting rim and inflated with its nominal pressure, each side portion has an upper side point, a bottom side point, an intermediate side point, an upper side portion, and a bottom side portion. A weight of the bottom side portion on one side portion is at least 15% lighter than a weight of the bottom side portion on another side portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Kenji Fukuda, Jacques Babaud
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Patent number: 11807048Abstract: Tire (1) comprising a carcass reinforcement (2) surmounted by a crown reinforcement (3), itself capped by a tread (7), the said tread being connected to two beads (6) via two sidewalls (4) each having an exterior surface (40), at least one of the said sidewalls comprising at least two circumferential protrusions (5a, 5b, 5c), each sidewall (4) comprising an equator point (E) situated on the exterior surface of the sidewall radially at the same position as the axially outermost point (20) of the carcass reinforcement (2) in the unladen reference configuration, each circumferential protrusion (5a, 5b, 5c) being bounded by a radially upper wall (51), by a radially lower wall (52), and by a connecting wall (53) situated between the radially upper wall (51) and the radially lower wall (52) tire.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: William License, Jacques Babaud
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Publication number: 20230278368Abstract: The tire includes a summit surrounded by side portions terminating in beads provided to cooperate with a mounting rim. A carcass reinforcement is surmounted by a summit reinforcement composed of reinforcing plies. When the tire is mounted onto its standard mounting rim and inflated with its nominal pressure, each side portion has an upper side point, a bottom side point, an intermediate side point, an upper side portion, and a bottom side portion. A weight of the bottom side portion on one side portion is at least 15% lighter than a weight of the bottom side portion on another side portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Kenji FUKUDA, Jacques BABAUD
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Patent number: 11685193Abstract: Tire tread (1) is divided into central part (20) and edge parts (30), central part (20) having width Lc between 40% and 90% of total width W of the tread. Edge parts (30) do not have any transverse cuts. Central part (20) has a tread pattern with circumferentially oriented sipe (21) and transversely oriented sipes (22, 22?, 22?) distributed around the periphery of the tread, such sipes having a depth at least equal to 60% of thickness E of material to be worn away and being interconnected to form a network. Such sipes are continued by hidden channels (210, 220). Central part (20) is delimited axially by transverse sipes (22?, 22?), each of which ends in end channel (221?, 221?) that opens onto tread surface (10) and extends into the thickness of the tread, and each end channel (221?, 221?) is connected to the network formed by the hidden channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Patrick Dayet, Benoit Buffetaud, Jacques Babaud
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Publication number: 20220355626Abstract: A tire having a contact face of a width TW is provided. The contact face is intended to come into contact with ground during rolling. The tread is provided with at least one groove of a depth D provided with a wear indicating means that extends generally in a circumferential orientation and opens to the contact face. The tread comprises a center region and a pair of shoulder regions that are positioned on two axial sides of the center region. The shoulder regions each comprise a shoulder rubber layer of a thickness ts made of a shoulder rubber composition different from a rubber composition constituting the tread. A shear storage modulus G? of the shoulder rubber composition measured at 23° C., 10 Hz and 10% of strain is less than or equal to 1.0 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Joris PROU, Jacques BABAUD
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Publication number: 20210331531Abstract: The tire comprises a pair of bead regions having an annular reinforcing structure and at least one carcass reinforcement which is anchored in the pair of bead regions. A protector portion is positioned axially outward and radially inward from the annular reinforcing structure. The protector portion includes a protector surface intended to come into contact with a rim flange and/or a rim sheet of a wheel rim and is provided with at least 2 recessed portions recessed from the protector surface toward an interior of the tire with a depth D. The at least 2 recessed portions have a minimum distance T between one another, and a Young's modulus E of a rubber composition constituting the protector portion is in a range from 1.5 to 6.0 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Joris PROU, Jacques BABAUD
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Publication number: 20210016601Abstract: The rolling assembly has a rotation axis and a rim having rim seats and flanges, an adapter and a tire having beads. The adapter provides the connection between one of the beads and the rim. The rim comprises a portion of a width W extending outwardly from the flange and a connecting introduction portion and a body. The body has a point A that is 10% of W axially inward from an axially outermost of the body or from an axially outermost of the adapter. The portion creates a virtual straight line GD between an innermost of the connecting introduction portion and the point A. The portion and the adapter has a radial distance d at the point A. The body has a maximum radial distance e from the virtual straight line GD at axially inward from the point A, and the body has no contact with the adapter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Jacques BABAUD, Kenji FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20200361250Abstract: Tire (1) comprising a carcass reinforcement (2) surmounted by a crown reinforcement (3), itself capped by a tread (7), the said tread being connected to two beads (6) via two sidewalls (4) each having an exterior surface (40), at least one of the said sidewalls comprising at least two circumferential protrusions (5a, 5b, 5c), each sidewall (4) comprising an equator point (E) situated on the exterior surface of the sidewall radially at the same position as the axially outermost point (20) of the carcass reinforcement (2) in the unladen reference configuration, each circumferential protrusion (5a, 5b, 5c) being bounded by a radially upper wall (51), by a radially lower wall (52), and by a connecting wall (53) situated between the radially upper wall (51) and the radially lower wall (52) tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: William LICENSE, Jacques BABAUD
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Patent number: 10272722Abstract: The tire has a carcass reinforcement which has at least one layer and a crown reinforcement that is capped radially by a tread. The tire also includes a layer P of polymer compounds in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement. The elastomer compounds forming the calendering layer, radially outermost with respect to the crown of the tire, of the carcass reinforcement layer have a relative density of sulfur bridges of less than 5%. The elastomer compounds forming the layer P have a relative density of sulfur bridges of less than 5%. The elastomer compounds are compositions based on at least one diene elastomer selected from the group of polybutadienes (BRs), synthetic polyisoprenes (IRs), natural rubber (NR), isoprene copolymers, butadiene copolymers with the exception of butadiene-nitrile copolymers (NBRs), apart from diene elastomers bearing carboxyl functions, and mixtures of these diene elastomers.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Compagnie General Des Etablissements MichelinInventors: Jacques Babaud, Didier Vasseur, Delphine Nayrat
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Publication number: 20180194170Abstract: The tire has a radial carcass reinforcement and a crown reinforcement containing at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements. The working crown layers are covered radially with a tread that is joined to two beads via two sidewalls. The relative density of sulfur bridges measured according to the equilibrium swelling method is less than 5% in at least 30% of the elastomer compounds present in the surface of at least one zone S in a meridian plane. The elastomer compounds are compositions based on at least one diene elastomer selected from the group of diene elastomers consisting of polybutadienes (abbreviated to “BRs”), synthetic polyisoprenes (IRs), natural rubber (NR), isoprene copolymers, butadiene copolymers with the exception of butadiene-nitrile copolymers (NBRs), apart from diene elastomers bearing carboxyl functions, and mixtures of these diene elastomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Jacques BABAUD, Orel FOURNIER, Didier VASSEUR, Delphine NAYRAT
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Publication number: 20180194168Abstract: The tire has a carcass reinforcement which has at least one layer and a crown reinforcement that is capped radially by a tread. The tire also includes a layer P of polymer compounds in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement. The elastomer compounds forming the calendering layer, radially outermost with respect to the crown of the tire, of the carcass reinforcement layer have a relative density of sulfur bridges of less than 5%. The elastomer compounds forming the layer P have a relative density of sulfur bridges of less than 5%. The elastomer compounds are compositions based on at least one diene elastomer selected from the group of polybutadienes (BRs), synthetic polyisoprenes (IRs), natural rubber (NR), isoprene copolymers, butadiene copolymers with the exception of butadiene-nitrile copolymers (NBRs), apart from diene elastomers bearing carboxyl functions, and mixtures of these diene elastomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Jacques BABAUD, Didier VASSEUR, Delphine NAYRAT