Patents by Inventor Jean Joseph Victor Collette
Jean Joseph Victor Collette 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: 9340076Abstract: A tire assembly and method includes one or more elongate air passageway formed within a tire component, such as a tire sidewall. The air passageway is configured as a series or string of elongate cavities, adjacent cavities connected end to end by an elongate connecting channel. The connecting channel is dimensioned having a channel diametric size smaller than a cavity diametric size. Positioned within the tire component, the air passageway sequentially collapses segment by segment as each of the cavities pass sequentially over a rolling tire footprint. Air is pumped by the sequential air passageway collapse with the smaller dimensioned connecting channel(s) acting as valve components to directionally keep the pumped air moving between an air passageway air inlet and an air passageway air outlet and from there into the tire cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire Rubber CompanyInventors: Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Pit Baptiste Jean Scharle, Frank Pierre Severens
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Patent number: 9050858Abstract: The invention relates generally to air maintenance tires and, more specifically, to a pump mechanism for supplying air into such tires.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin, Lois Levy, Gilles Bonnet, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Marcel Przibilla, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo
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Publication number: 20140360643Abstract: A tire assembly and method includes one or more elongate air passageway formed within a tire component, such as a tire sidewall. The air passageway is configured as a series or string of elongate cavities, adjacent cavities connected end to end by an elongate connecting channel. The connecting channel is dimensioned having a channel diametric size smaller than a cavity diametric size. Positioned within the tire component, the air passageway sequentially collapses segment by segment as each of the cavities pass sequentially over a rolling tire footprint. Air is pumped by the sequential air passageway collapse with the smaller dimensioned connecting channel(s) acting as valve components to directionally keep the pumped air moving between an air passageway air inlet and an air passageway air outlet and from there into the tire cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Pit Baptiste Jean Scharle, Frank Pierre Severens
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Publication number: 20140166174Abstract: The invention relates generally to air maintenance tires and, more specifically, to a pump mechanism for supplying air into such tires.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin, Lois Levy, Gilles Bonnet, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Marcel Przibilla, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo
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Patent number: 8662127Abstract: A self-inflating tire system includes a compression actuator assembly mounted to a tire carcass for compressing air for delivery to a tire cavity. The compression actuator assembly includes a hollow containment body formed from a resilient deformable material composition and containing a quantity of a non-compressible medium. The containment body is affixed to a relatively high flex-deformation region of the tire carcass and reciprocally transforms between a deformed state and a non-deformed state responsive to deformation and recovery of the tire high flex-deformation region in a rolling tire. Accordingly, the containment body in the deformed state displaces a pressurized displaced quantity of the non-compressible medium which generates a compression force for application to a volume of air delivered to the tire cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Patent number: 8394311Abstract: A method of constructing a self-inflating tire includes: forming a pre-cure green tire body; positioning an air passageway body within the green tire body to extend between an outward facing green tire body surface and the tire cavity, the air passageway body having an enclosed air passageway extending between a hollow body outlet end facing the tire cavity and a hollow inlet end facing outward from the outward facing green tire body surface; curing the green tire body into a finished cured tire body; affixing one or more tapping device(s) over one or both ends of the air passageway body; and establishing through a hollow protrusion member of the tapping device an air flow path extending between the air passageway within the air passageway body and a vent opening within the tapping device.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Patent number: 8376007Abstract: A structure for a tread pattern of a pneumatic tire includes a radially extending pedestal, a first set of cylindrical voids extending radially through the pedestal, a second set of cylindrical voids extending radially through the pedestal, and a radially extending void ring circumscribing the pedestal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: André Cuny, Frank Pierre Severens, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Vincent Dominique Claude Rion, Tibor Fülöp, Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Jerome Marcel Germain Delu
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Patent number: 8291950Abstract: A tire assembly includes a tire carcass body and an air tube body extending between an outward facing tire body surface and an inward tire body surface. The air tube body has an enclosed hollow enclosed outlet end at a first end and an enclosed hollow inlet end at an opposite second end. An air passageway extends through the air tube body from the inlet end to the outlet end. The outlet end is positioned to face exposed from the outward tire body surface and the inlet end is positioned to face exposed from the inward tire body surface. The air tube body is integrally formed of resilient flexible material composition and includes a hollow outer casing and one or more hollow air cables positioned within the casing for regulating the rate of air flow from the inlet end to the outlet end.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Patent number: 8215354Abstract: A tire includes a carcass, a tread band having a radially outer tread surface and a plurality of radially extending recesses, and an anti-slip structure disposed in one of the radially extending recesses. The anti-slip structure includes a first circular inner portion, a second outer portion, and a third core portion. The third core portion comprises an assembly of three pin structures for providing traction over ice. Each pin structure has a wedge-shaped base portion secured within the first circular inner portion and a pin extending through the second outer portion to the tread surface. The three wedge-shaped base portions combine to form a circular base portion for the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: André Cuny, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Eric Nowak
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Patent number: 8215353Abstract: A tire includes a carcass, a tread band having a radially outer tread surface and a plurality of radially extending recesses, and an anti-slip structure disposed in one of the radially extending recesses. The anti-slip structure includes a first end portion, a second triangular middle portion, and a third triangular end portion. The third end portion includes three radially extending projections for providing traction over ice. The shape of the radially extending recess corresponds to the shape of the anti-slip structure such that the anti-slip structure is both radially and rotationally secured within the recess relative to the tread band of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Andre Cuny, Per Elinar Detterman
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Publication number: 20120160386Abstract: A self-inflating tire system includes a compression actuator assembly mounted to a tire carcass for compressing air for delivery to a tire cavity. The compression actuator assembly includes a hollow containment body formed from a resilient deformable material composition and containing a quantity of a non-compressible medium. The containment body is affixed to a relatively high flex-deformation region of the tire carcass and reciprocally transforms between a deformed state and a non-deformed state responsive to deformation and recovery of the tire high flex-deformation region in a rolling tire. Accordingly, the containment body in the deformed state displaces a pressurized displaced quantity of the non-compressible medium which generates a compression force for application to a volume of air delivered to the tire cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Publication number: 20120090766Abstract: A method of constructing a self-inflating tire includes: forming a pre-cure green tire body; positioning an air passageway body within the green tire body to extend between an outward facing green tire body surface and the tire cavity, the air passageway body having an enclosed air passageway extending between a hollow body outlet end facing the tire cavity and a hollow inlet end facing outward from the outward facing green tire body surface; curing the green tire body into a finished cured tire body; affixing one or more tapping device(s) over one or both ends of the air passageway body; and establishing through a hollow protrusion member of the tapping device an air flow path extending between the air passageway within the air passageway body and a vent opening within the tapping device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Publication number: 20120090752Abstract: A tire assembly includes a tire carcass body and an air tube body extending between an outward facing tire body surface and an inward tire body surface. The air tube body has an enclosed hollow enclosed outlet end at a first end and an enclosed hollow inlet end at an opposite second end. An air passageway extends through the air tube body from the inlet end to the outlet end. The outlet end is positioned to face exposed from the outward tire body surface and the inlet end is positioned to face exposed from the inward tire body surface. The air tube body is integrally formed of resilient flexible material composition and includes a hollow outer casing and one or more hollow air cables positioned within the casing for regulating the rate of air flow from the inlet end to the outlet end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Publication number: 20120090753Abstract: An air passageway body resides within a tire body and extends between an outward facing tire body surface and the tire cavity, the air passageway body having an enclosed air passageway extending between a hollow body outlet end facing the tire cavity and a hollow inlet end facing outward from the outward facing tire body surface. A tapping device is affixed over one or both of the ends of the air passageway body, the tapping device having an external vent opening and a protrusion member penetrating through a sidewall of the air passageway body to operatively establish an air flow path extending between the air passageway of the air passageway body through the protrusion member and the tapping device vent opening. The air passageway body is installed pre-cure within a green tire carcass build of the tire body and the tapping device(s) are attached post-cure to the air passageway body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, René Louis Bormann, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Gilles Bonnet
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Patent number: D715729Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte, Stephane Houchard, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Patrick Paul Deblaize, Claude Charles Jacoby, Raymond Marie Joseph Ghislain Houba
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Patent number: D720685Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Stephane Houchard, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Denis Gilon, Patrick Paul Deblaize
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Patent number: D721323Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Arnaud Caron, Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Stephane Houchard, Denis Michel Philippe Gilon, Juergen Hotz, Marc Hoffmann
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Patent number: D721639Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Arnaud Caron, Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte, Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Stephane Houchard, Raymond Marie Joseph Ghislain Houba, Thierry Gaspar
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Patent number: D733639Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte, Stephane Houchard, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Denis Michel Philippe Gilon, Sascha Karl-Heinz Glaub
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Patent number: D737754Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Brian Rene Bourel, Alexandre Andre Scharis, Jean Joseph Victor Collette, Stephane Houchard, Jan Leyssens