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).

  • Publication number: 20240083127
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
  • Patent number: 11850813
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
  • Publication number: 20230311583
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Wendy Therese Frida El-Sebaly, Vincent Pierre David Bylda
  • Publication number: 20230061660
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
  • Publication number: 20220194038
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen
  • Patent number: 9050860
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Malik Djelloul-Mazouz, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff
  • Patent number: 9050859
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Malik Djelloul-Mazouz
  • Publication number: 20140041776
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Malik Djelloul-Mazouz
  • Publication number: 20140041777
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Malik Djelloul-Mazouz, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Ralf Reinardt, Thomas Gesenhoff
  • Publication number: 20100059156
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: D583306
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Bruno Pierre Maitre, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Frank Pierre Severens
  • Patent number: D589431
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Bruno Pierre Maitre, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Frank Pierre Severens
  • Patent number: D640187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: D644593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: D667358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Jean-Francois Vandeclee, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Pascal Patrick Steiner, Thierry Botman, Percy Anthony Lemaire, Michel Pierre Charles Robert
  • Patent number: D715214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Pierre Bernard Raoul Brochet, Stephane Pierre Pemmers, Edouard Leon Hoffman, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Thomas Gesenhoff