Patents by Inventor Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen 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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Publication number: 20240083127Abstract: A tire tread mold which allows more flexibility in the design of tread patterns and which reduces the risks of blades being damaged during molding operations is needed. Such a mold has a tread mold portion which is divided in into a plurality of mold segments having an inner face curved along the circumferential direction according to an arc angle ?, each of the mold segments including laterally extending blades forming projections from their inner face; wherein the mold segments have a first end portion, a second end portion and a central portion; wherein laterally extending blades of the central portion extend in the operating direction, and wherein laterally extending blades of the end portions are inclined blades that extend in a direction forming an angle ? with the operating direction, wherein with angle ? being less than half of angle ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
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Patent number: 11850813Abstract: A tire mold comprising a tread mold portion divided into mold segments having transverse edges which are movable between (i) an opened position, wherein the mold segments are spaced apart, and (ii) a closed position, wherein neighboring mold segments are in contact with each other, each of the mold segments comprising blades; wherein at least a first one of the mold segments has laterally extending blades located at a first transverse edge, wherein at least a second neighboring one of the mold segments has laterally extending blades located at a second transverse edge adjacent to the first transverse edge of the first one of said the mold segments, and when in the closed position said the laterally extending blades of the first one of the mold segments interlock between the laterally extending blades of the second one of said the mold segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
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Publication number: 20230311583Abstract: A tire having a high contrast design pattern is described, wherein one design has a first set of spaced apart wavy lines oriented in a first direction, and a second set of spaced apart wavy lines oriented in a first direction, wherein the first set of wavy lines is out of phase with the second set of wavy lines. A second high contrast design pattern is described, and is formed of a plurality of circles, wherein the plurality of circles do not overlap with each other and are tangent to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Wendy Therese Frida El-Sebaly, Vincent Pierre David Bylda
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Publication number: 20230061660Abstract: The subject invention relates to a mold segment comprising a tread molding element for manufacturing a tire wherein the tread molding element comprises a shell and an infill, wherein the shell has a first wall with a negative tread pattern extending from its external surface for molding the tread, a second wall opposed to the first wall, and lateral walls; wherein the infill is a fluid-permeable structure defining a fluid-permeable infill; and wherein at least one of a lateral wall and the second wall comprises at least one fluid passage passing through the lateral wall or the second wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
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Publication number: 20220194038Abstract: This invention discloses a tire mold comprising a tread mold portion divided into mold segments having transverse edges which are movable between (i) an opened position, wherein the mold segments are spaced apart, and (ii) a closed position, wherein neighboring mold segments are in contact with each other, each of the mold segments comprising blades; wherein at least a first one of said mold segments has laterally extending blades located at a first transverse edge, wherein at least a second neighboring one of said mold segments has laterally extending blades located at a second transverse edge adjacent to the first transverse edge of the first one of said mold segments, and when in the closed position said laterally extending blades of the first one of said mold segments interlock between the laterally extending blades of the second one of said mold segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
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Patent number: 9050860Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tire tread is disclosed, wherein the tread comprises one or more tread elements and one or more grooves, the tread having a radially outer surface and a non-skid tread depth as measured from the radially outer surface of the tread and a radially innermost surface of the grooves. The tread has a radially innermost layer comprised of a base tread compound, a radially outer tread cap layer and a middle tread caplayer located between the base layer and the outer tread cap layer. Wherein the radially outer tread cap layer has a defined depth D, except that there is at least one notched areas wherein the tread cap layer extends radially inward of the defined depth D.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Malik Djelloul-Mazouz, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff
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Patent number: 9050859Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tire tread is disclosed, wherein the tread comprises one or more tread elements and one or more grooves, the tread having a radially outer surface and a non-skid tread depth as measured from the radially outer surface of the tread and a radially innermost surface of the grooves. The tread has a radially innermost layer comprised of a base tread compound, a radially outer tread cap layer and a middle tread cap layer located between the base layer and the outer tread cap layer. Wherein the radially outer tread cap layer has a defined depth D, except that there is at least one notched areas wherein the tread cap layer extends radially inward of the defined depth D.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Malik Djelloul-Mazouz
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Publication number: 20140041776Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tire tread is disclosed, wherein the tread comprises one or more tread elements and one or more grooves, the tread having a radially outer surface and a non-skid tread depth as measured from the radially outer surface of the tread and a radially innermost surface of the grooves. The tread has a radially innermost layer comprised of a base tread compound, a radially outer tread cap layer and a middle tread cap layer located between the base layer and the outer tread cap layer. Wherein the radially outer tread cap layer has a defined depth D, except that there is at least one notched areas wherein the tread cap layer extends radially inward of the defined depth D.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Malik Djelloul-Mazouz
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Publication number: 20140041777Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tire tread is disclosed, wherein the tread comprises one or more tread elements and one or more grooves, the tread having a radially outer surface and a non-skid tread depth as measured from the radially outer surface of the tread and a radially innermost surface of the grooves. The tread has a radially innermost layer comprised of a base tread compound, a radially outer tread cap layer and a middle tread caplayer located between the base layer and the outer tread cap layer. Wherein the radially outer tread cap layer has a defined depth D, except that there is at least one notched areas wherein the tread cap layer extends radially inward of the defined depth D.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Malik Djelloul-Mazouz, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff
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Publication number: 20100059156Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tire tread, the tread comprising grooves therein, the grooves forming tread elements, the tread having a radially outer surface and a non-skid tread depth as measured from the radially outer surface of the tread, and a radially innermost surface of the grooves, and one or more sunken grooves located radially inward and below the surface of the unworn tread, the tread comprised of a base tread compound, a radially outer compound, and a radially inner compound, wherein the intersection of the radially outer compound and the radially inner compound is wavy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Jean Luc Dheur, Gia Van Nguyen, Alain Emile Francois Roesgen, Jean-Marc Lacaze, Peter Phelps Roch, Andrew Frederick Weimer, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
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Patent number: D583306Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Bruno Pierre Maitre, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Frank Pierre Severens
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Patent number: D589431Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Bruno Pierre Maitre, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Frank Pierre Severens
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Patent number: D640187Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Jean-Francois Vandeclee, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Thierry Botman, Stephane Jose Geelen, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Michel Pierre Charles Robert, Jean-Pierre Noel
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Patent number: D644593Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Maurice Graas, Jean-Francois Vandeclee, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Thierry Botman, Stephane Jose Geelen, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Michel Pierre Charles Robert
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Patent number: D667358Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Jean-Francois Vandeclee, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Thierry Botman, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Michel Pierre Charles Robert
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Patent number: D715214Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Stephane Pierre Pemmers, Edouard Leon Hoffman, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Thomas Gesenhoff