Patents by Inventor Massimo Di Giacomo Russo
Massimo Di Giacomo Russo 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: 9302556Abstract: An air maintenance tire and air pump assembly includes a sidewall and a tire cavity for maintaining pressure; an elongate tubular air passageway enclosed within a flexing region of the sidewall, air passageway, the air passageway operably closing segment by segment in reaction to induced forces from the tire flexing region as the flexing region of the tire wall rotates adjacent a rolling tire footprint, the elongate air passageway having at least one check valve device seated within the axial air passageway; and a relief valve assembly comprising a chamber body, a valve, a piston, and a silicone ring, the valve having a valve body and a valve head, the valve head, deforming to release over-pressurized air from the tire cavity to atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Andre Cuny, Gauthier Piret, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo
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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: 20150041035Abstract: An air maintenance tire and air pump assembly includes a sidewall and a tire cavity for maintaining pressure; an elongate tubular air passageway enclosed within a flexing region of the sidewall, air passageway, the air passageway operably closing segment by segment in reaction to induced forces from the tire flexing region as the flexing region of the tire wall rotates adjacent a rolling tire footprint, the elongate air passageway having at least one check valve device seated within the axial air passageway; and a relief valve assembly comprising a chamber body, a valve, a piston, and a silicone ring, the valve having a valve body and a valve head, the valve head, deforming to release over-pressurized air from the tire cavity to atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Andre Cuny, Gauthier Piret, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo
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Publication number: 20140174626Abstract: A green pneumatic tire comprising a tire cavity; first and second sidewalls extending respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region; and a cable embedded into a rubber material of the green tire for allowing a creation of an air passageway in the tire after curing the green tire in a tire mold is disclosed. The cable comprises a core of a first material and a shell of a second material, wherein the shell surrounds the core. Also, a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire comprising an air passageway is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Francesco Sportelli, Etienne Besnoin, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Raphael Beck, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Gilles Bonnet, Andreas Frantzen
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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: 8573272Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a carcass, a tread, a belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of the carcass and radially inward of the tread, and an insert located in each sidewall. Each insert comprises a plurality of separate rib members. The carcass includes a reinforcing ply structure extending between a pair of bead portions and a pair of sidewalls. Each sidewall is located radially outward of one of the pair of bead portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Damien Albert Ghislain Schreurs, Michael Spiro Markoff, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, David Gilbert Wieczorek
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Patent number: 8539999Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having a pair of spaced apart bead components, a connecting carcass between said bead components, and a rubber chafer positioned around at least a portion of each of said bead components and intended for contacting a rigid rim of a wheel, wherein said chafer comprises an outer skin layer intended for contacting the rigid rim and an inner core layer disposed radially inward of the skin layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Matthieu Pingenat, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Isabelle Lea Louise Marie Lambert, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet
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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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Publication number: 20130056127Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a carcass, a tread, a belt reinforcing structure located radially outward of the carcass and radially inward of the tread, and an insert located in each sidewall. Each insert comprises a plurality of separate rib members. The carcass includes a reinforcing ply structure extending between a pair of bead portions and a pair of sidewalls. Each sidewall is located radially outward of one of the pair of bead portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Damien Albert Ghislain Schreurs, Michael Spiro Markoff, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, David Gilbert Wieczorek
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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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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: 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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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: 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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Patent number: 8156978Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 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: 8057204Abstract: An expandable bladder for shaping a pneumatic tire is provided. The bladder in an unmounted, relaxed state has a shaped body having a pair of opposed annular beads, said body further comprising a central portion, sidewall portions, and shoulder portions interposed between the central portion and the sidewall portions, wherein the body is defined by an outer contour surface and an inner contour surface, wherein the central portion has gauge which increases to a maximum value axially inward of the shoulder portion, and wherein the bladder gauge in the shoulder is less than the maximum value, and wherein the bladder gauge increases from the shoulder to the bead.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Giorgio Agostini, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce
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Patent number: 7896633Abstract: This invention relates to an expandable curing bladder for use in curing rubber products; the bladder comprising an inner layer and an outer layer bonded to the first layer; the inner layer comprising a rubber composition comprised of, based on parts weight per 100 parts by weight rubber (phr): an isobutylene copolymer rubber selected from butyl rubber and/or halobutyl rubber, wherein said butyl rubber comprises a copolymer of isobutylene and isoprene which contains from about 0.5 to about 5 weight percent units derived from isoprene; wherein said halobutyl rubber is a halogenated butyl rubber comprises a chlorinated or brominated copolymer of isobutylene and isoprene which contains from about 0.5 to about 5 weight percent units derived from isoprene; and the outer layer comprising a rubber composition comprising a silicon rubber.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Giorgio Agostini, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo
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Publication number: 20100147436Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire having a pair of spaced apart bead components, a connecting carcass between said bead components, and a rubber chafer positioned around at least a portion of each of said bead components and intended for contacting a rigid rim of a wheel, wherein said chafer comprises an outer skin layer intended for contacting the rigid rim and an inner core layer disposed radially inward of the skin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Matthieu Pingenat, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo, Isabelle Lea Louise Marie Lambert, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet
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Patent number: 7721780Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a single carcass ply, at least one belt ply disposed radially outward of the carcass ply in a crown portion of the tire, and at least one insert located adjacent the carcass ply in a sidewall portion, the insert providing support for the tire load to enable the tire to operate in underinflated conditions. The carcass ply is comprised of at least one composite cord. The composite cord is formed of at least two first yarns twisted helically about at least one second yarn. The first yarns and the second yarn having different modulus of elasticity, the first yarns having a modulus greater than the modulus of the second yarn.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Yves Donckels, Serge Julien Auguste Imhoff, René François Reuter, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Massimo Di Giacomo Russo