Patents by Inventor Jean-Paul Keller

Jean-Paul Keller 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: 7051583
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and device for fitting a tire, of the type with an incorporated air chamber, normally referred to as “tubeless”, on a rim. According to the invention, the said tire having a marking indicating an extreme value of a parameter having a circumferential variation, an area of at least one bead of the tire is held at least during a first inflation phase, the said area being azimuthed according to the said marking. The fitting according to the invention makes it possible to control the variations in radial load on the periphery of the fitted assembly. The invention also proposes a method of analyzing such a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Maleo, Jean-Paul Keller
  • Patent number: 6889542
    Abstract: Processes and machines for the unseating test for a mounted assembly, wherein, on the machine, the test (or “load”) forces are transmitted only in a normal direction, that is to say by that part of the tire intended to be in contact with the ground, that is to say under normal conditions the “crown” of the tire (substantially the tread) and, under extreme test conditions, the crown, the “shoulder” and ultimately the “sidewall” of the tire. Operation may be in static mode (wheel on a test plate) or in dynamic mode (wheel rolling with drift on a test drum or other test surface).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S. A.
    Inventors: Luc Deverre, Jean-Paul Keller, Patrick Rachez
  • Publication number: 20040103993
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and device for fitting a tire, of the type with an incorporated air chamber, normally referred to as “tubeless”, on a rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Maleo, Jean-Paul Keller
  • Publication number: 20040083803
    Abstract: Processes and machines for the unseating test for a mounted assembly, wherein, on the machine, the test (or “load”) forces are transmitted only in a normal direction, that is to say by that part of the tire intended to be in contact with the ground, that is to say under normal conditions the “crown” of the tire (substantially the tread) and, under extreme test conditions, the crown, the “shoulder” and ultimately the “sidewall” of the tire. Operation may be in static mode (wheel on a test plate) or in dynamic mode (wheel rolling with drift on a test drum or other test surface).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Luc Deverre, Jean-Paul Keller, Patrick Rachez
  • Patent number: 4448029
    Abstract: Process for quick freezing and conditioning of individual products, and apparatus to practice this process. The process is characterized in that it consists essentially in treating small individual quantities of different products in modular indivdual quick-freeze chambers (1) fed with cryogenic gas and connected each to a quick-freeze tunnel (3) so as to provide in the latter a low temperature, and in treating larger quantities of product pieces in the tunnel (3), provided with a conveyor belt (4) and which is also fed with cryogenic gas, in evacuating the residual warmed gas obtained from the interior of the tunnel (3), in packaging the products leaving the tunnel in insulating packaging disposed in a receiver (6) mounted at the outlet of the tunnel (3), or in filling the packaging with products issuing from a chamber, then in surrounding the assembly of products disposed in the packaging with a cryogenic product, and closing the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Keller