Patents by Inventor Mathieu Vandaele
Mathieu Vandaele 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: 11173752Abstract: A tire made of rubber material includes a sidewall and a marking protruding from this sidewall. The tire has a texture, which has a plurality of strands protruding from the sidewall, these strands being distributed at a density at least equal to five strands per square millimeter (mm2), each strand having a mean cross section between 0.0007 mm2 and 0.06 mm2 and/or the texture having a plurality of substantially mutually parallel lamellae protruding from the sidewall, the spacing of the lamellae being less than or equal to 0.5 mm, each lamella having a mean width between 0.03 mm and 0.3 mm. The texture protrudes from the sidewall of the tire, and this texture surrounds all or part of the marking.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.Inventors: Helene Emorine, Olivier Muhlhoff, Mathieu Vandaele
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Patent number: 10787042Abstract: The tire comprises a carcass reinforcement which extends into sidewalls. The tire is also provided with a protection device that protects against external attack. The protection device comprises a plurality of raised elements of height H that are arranged in the circumferential direction. The tire is also constructed such that each raised element is formed of at least two parts which are at least partially disjointed from one another along a separation zone. The separation zone is oriented substantially in the circumferential direction. Each part is able to come into contact with another part of the same raised element when one of the parts comes into contact with an external obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.Inventors: Benoit Buffetaud, Gilles Godeau, Laurence Lapra, Mathieu Vandaele
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Patent number: 10414212Abstract: The aspects disclosed herein relate to a tread for a tire including at least one block of rubbery material of width W and length L with L»W. This block extends in a circumferential direction (X) when the tread is mounted on the tire, the block including a contact surface intended to come into contact with the ground and a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall delimiting this contact surface. The block further includes a plurality of sipes opening onto the contact surface of the block, with each sipe extending over the contact surface in an oblique direction opening onto the first lateral wall and onto the second lateral wall, the sipes of the block being oriented in the same direction. The sipes are distributed over the contact surface of the block in such a way that when one sipe reaches the second lateral wall another sipe starts out from the first lateral wall at the same circumferential level (N) on the block, and each sipe includes at least two parts.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche Et Technique, S.A.Inventors: Matthieu Bonnamour, Benoit Durand-Gasselin, Serge Lefebvre, Mathieu Vandaele, Kazutaka Yokokawa
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Patent number: 10155419Abstract: Disclosed herein is a tread for a tire. The tread includes at least one elongate block of rubbery material of width W and length L with L>>W. This elongate block extends in a circumferential direction (X) when the tread is mounted on the tire. The elongate block includes a contact surface intended to come into contact with the ground and a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall delimiting this contact surface. The elongate block includes a plurality of sipes opening onto the contact surface of the elongate block, with each sine extending in an oblique direction opening onto the first lateral wall and onto the second lateral wall. The sipes are distributed over the contact surface of the block in such a way that when one sipe reaches the second lateral wall another sipe starts out from the first lateral wall, at a same circumferential level (N) on the elongate block. With the sipes delimiting sub-blocks in the elongate block, at least two of these sub-blocks are configured differently in the tread.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignees: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche Et Technique, S.A.Inventors: Matthieu Bonnamour, Benoit Durand-Gasselin, Serge Lefebvre, Mathieu Vandaele, Kazutaka Yokokawa, Masayoshi Nomura
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Publication number: 20180229557Abstract: The tire comprises a carcass reinforcement which extends into sidewalls. The tire is also provided with a protection device that protects against external attack. The protection device comprises a plurality of raised elements of height H that are arranged in the circumferential direction. The tire is also constructed such that each raised element is formed of at least two parts which are at least partially disjointed from one another along a separation zone. The separation zone is oriented substantially in the circumferential direction. Each part is able to come into contact with another part of the same raised element when one of the parts comes into contact with an external obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.Inventors: Benoit BUFFETAUD, Gilles GODEAU, Laurence LAPRA, Mathieu VANDAELE
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Publication number: 20180104992Abstract: Tire comprising a tread (3), with a tread surface contacting the road surface, a shoulder region (5) partially delimiting the tread (3), and a plurality of complex cutouts (6) extending through the tread (3) and through the shoulder region (5). Each complex cutout (6) comprises a sipe (7) that leads onto the tread surface and a channel (8) that extends the sipe (7) into the depth of the tread and leads onto a surface (9) of the shoulder region (5). Channel (8) of sipe (7) has a main part (11) extending through tread (3) and a widened part (12) extending through shoulder region (5) from the main part of the channel to surface (9) of shoulder region (5). As seen in cross section, the widened part (12) makes, with the surface (9) of the shoulder region (5), an outlet angle ? of less than 90 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Marie-Hélène VANTAL, Héloïse DEBORDEAUX, Mathieu VANDAELE, Kazutaka YOKOKAWA, Vincent LEDIEU, Quentin BONNETON
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Publication number: 20180072103Abstract: A tire comprising a tread. This tread comprises at least one elongate block delimited by at least one lateral wall (5) and a contact face (7). The lateral wall (5) makes a non-zero angle with a transverse direction and the contact face contacts a road surface. The tire comprises at least one channel (19) extending through the elongate block and leading onto the lateral wall (5) of this elongate block. The tire also comprises a sipe extending from the channel towards the contact face, this sipe leading onto the lateral wall of the elongate block in a lateral wall outlet region. The lateral wall of the elongate block is inclined with respect to a radial direction (Z), at least in the lateral wall outlet region of the sipe, at an angle ? of between 20 degrees and 60 degrees with respect to this radial direction (Z).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Marie-Hélène VANTAL, Vincent LEDIEU, Kazutaka YOKOKAWA, Quentin BONNETON, Héloïse DEBORDEAUX, Mathieu VANDAELE
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Publication number: 20170157994Abstract: A tire (1) made of rubber material, comprising a tread (2) and a sidewall (3), said tire (1) comprising a marking (4) on the tread (2) and/or said sidewall (3). The marking (4) is divided into a plurality of basic zones (50) of the same size, each basic zone (50) being able to be inscribed in a circle of diameter equal to 8 mm, each basic zone (50) comprising between 0 and N motifs (6), said motifs being formed integrally with the tire so as to define a grey level (Nx) of the basic zone (50) from N+1 grey levels (Nx), the grey level of a basic zone (50) depending on the number of motifs present in this basic zone (50). The marking (4) on the tire comprises at least 5 different grey levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Olivier MUHLHOFF, Jean-Claude DESVIGNES, Helene EMORINE, Mathieu VANDAELE
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Publication number: 20160297253Abstract: The aspects disclosed herein relate to a tread for a tire including at least one block of rubbery material of width W and length L with L>>W. This block extends in a circumferential direction (X) when the tread is mounted on the tire, the block including a contact surface intended to come into contact with the ground and a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall delimiting this contact surface. The block further includes a plurality of sipes opening onto the contact surface of the block, with each sipe extending over the contact surface in an oblique direction opening onto the first lateral wall and onto the second lateral wall, the sipes of the block being oriented in the same direction. The sipes are distributed over the contact surface of the block in such a way that when one sipe reaches the second lateral wall another sipe starts out from the first lateral wall at the same circumferential level (N) on the block, and each sipe includes at least two parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Matthieu BONNAMOUR, Benoit DURAND-GASSELIN, Serge LEFEBVRE, Mathieu VANDAELE, Kazutaka YOKOKAWA
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Publication number: 20160263946Abstract: Disclosed herein is a tread for a tire. The tread includes at least one elongate block of rubbery material of width W and length L with L>>W. This elongate block extends in a circumferential direction (X) when the tread is mounted on the tire. The elongate block includes a contact surface intended to come into contact with the ground and a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall delimiting this contact surface. The elongate block includes a plurality of sipes opening onto the contact surface of the elongate block, with each sine extending in an oblique direction opening onto the first lateral wall and onto the second lateral wall. The sipes are distributed over the contact surface of the block in such a way that when one sipe reaches the second lateral wall another sipe starts out from the first lateral wall, at a same circumferential level (N) on the elongate block. With the sipes delimiting sub-blocks in the elongate block, at least two of these sub-blocks are configured differently in the tread.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.Inventors: Matthieu BONNAMOUR, Benoit DURAND-GASSELIN, Serge LEFEBVRE, Mathieu VANDAELE, Kazutaka YOKOKAWA, Masayoshi NOMURA
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Publication number: 20160137008Abstract: A tire made of rubber material including a sidewall and a marking protruding from this sidewall. The tire having a texture, which has a plurality of strands protruding from the sidewall, these strands being distributed at a density at least equal to five strands per square millimeter (mm2), each strand having a mean cross section between 0.0007 mm2 and 0.06 mm2 and/or the texture having a plurality of substantially mutually parallel lamellae protruding from the sidewall, the spacing of the lamellae being less than or equal to 0.5 mm, each lamella having a mean width between 0.03 mm and 0.3 mm. The texture protrudes from the sidewall of the tire, and this texture surrounding all or part of the marking.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.Inventors: Helene EMORINE, Olivier MUHLHOFF, Mathieu VANDAELE
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Patent number: 9174493Abstract: Tire tread having at least two wearing layers, provided with at least one continuous groove having in the as new condition a plurality of external cavities opening onto the tread surface and a plurality of internal cavities placed radially and completely inside the tread surface, such that: the difference between the mean lengths of the internal cavities and of the external cavities is at most equal to 20% of the longest mean length, the difference in the mean cross-sectional areas of the internal and external cavities is at most equal to 20% of the largest mean area, each external cavity of a continuous groove being connected to at least two internal cavities of the same groove and having a plurality of incisions opening onto the tread surface, each connecting two consecutive external cavities of the same groove and at least two connecting channels and at least one internal cavity.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Richard Audigier, Stéphane Oraison, Mathieu Vandaele, Gilles Douet
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Patent number: D739339Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignees: CAMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Masayoshi Nomura, Julien Besset, Mathieu Vandaele
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Patent number: D740743Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Catherine Houis, Mathieu Vandaele, William Licence
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Patent number: D750013Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Catherine Houis, Mathieu Vandaele, William Licence
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Patent number: D760158Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Mathieu Vandaele, Luc Delvart
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Patent number: D778815Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Hélène Emorine, Hervé Ferigo, Mathieu Vandaele
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Patent number: D779423Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Hélène Emorine, Hervé Ferigo, Mathieu Vandaele
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Patent number: D779424Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Hélène Emorine, Hervé Ferigo, Mathieu Vandaele
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Patent number: D789878Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENRALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventor: Mathieu Vandaele