Patents by Inventor Philippe Gervais

Philippe Gervais 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: 11376893
    Abstract: A tire tread having a tread surface (20) in the new state and at least one wavy groove (1) opening into the tread surface, the groove is the new state having external cavities (11) that open onto the tread surface in the new state along a length (Le) and internal cavities (12) that do not open onto the tread surface. The external cavities (11) have a bottom (110) of which the points that are innermost in the tread are at a distance (H1) from the tread surface (20) in the new state, the internal cavities (12) having a bottom (120) of which the innermost points are at a distance (H22) from the same tread surface (20). The external cavities (11) and the internal cavities (12) being connected together by linking cavities (13). The tread (2) being such that at least two sipes (31, 32) are formed from the bottom (110) of the external cavities (11) and along an entire length (Le) of these external cavities (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Tony Zivkovic, Philippe Gervais, Guillaume Bacher
  • Publication number: 20220156374
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that reduce vulnerability of software systems (e.g., machine-learned models) to adversarial attacks by increasing variety within the software system. In particular, a software system can include a number of subcomponents that interoperate using predefined interfaces. To increase variety within the software system, multiple, different versions of one or more of the subcomponents of the software system can be generated. In particular, the different versions of the subcomponent(s) can be different from each other in some way, while still remaining functionally equivalent (e.g., able to perform the same functions with comparable accuracy/success). A plurality of different variants of the software system can be constructed by mixing and matching different versions of the subcomponents. A large amount of variety can be exhibited by the variants of the software system deployed at a given time, thereby leading to increased robustness against adversarial attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Pedro Gonnet Anders, Philippe Gervais
  • Patent number: 11263323
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that reduce vulnerability of software systems (e.g., machine-learned models) to adversarial attacks by increasing variety within the software system. In particular, a software system can include a number of subcomponents that interoperate using predefined interfaces. To increase variety within the software system, multiple, different versions of one or more of the subcomponents of the software system can be generated. In particular, the different versions of the subcomponent(s) can be different from each other in some way, while still remaining functionally equivalent (e.g., able to perform the same functions with comparable accuracy/success). A plurality of different variants of the software system can be constructed by mixing and matching different versions of the subcomponents. A large amount of variety can be exhibited by the variants of the software system deployed at a given time, thereby leading to increased robustness against adversarial attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Pedro Gonnet Anders, Philippe Gervais
  • Patent number: 10762750
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for triggering one or several actions complementary to those triggered by an application method implemented by an electronic device. The invention further relates to a system including one or several electronic devices implementing said method triggering complementary actions to cooperate with one or several communicating electronic peripherals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ORGANISATION MECANOGRAPHIQUE ET COMPTABLE GERVAIS OMS GERVAIS
    Inventors: Philippe Gervais, Stéphane Vartanian
  • Publication number: 20200201993
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that reduce vulnerability of software systems (e.g., machine-learned models) to adversarial attacks by increasing variety within the software system. In particular, a software system can include a number of subcomponents that interoperate using predefined interfaces. To increase variety within the software system, multiple, different versions of one or more of the subcomponents of the software system can be generated. In particular, the different versions of the subcomponent(s) can be different from each other in some way, while still remaining functionally equivalent (e.g., able to perform the same functions with comparable accuracy/success). A plurality of different variants of the software system can be constructed by mixing and matching different versions of the subcomponents. A large amount of variety can be exhibited by the variants of the software system deployed at a given time, thereby leading to increased robustness against adversarial attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Pedro Gonnet Anders, Philippe Gervais
  • Publication number: 20200139766
    Abstract: A tire tread having a tread surface (20) in the new state and at least one wavy groove (1) opening into the tread surface, the groove is the new state having external cavities (11) that open onto the tread surface in the new state along a length (Le) and internal cavities (12) that do not open onto the tread surface. The external cavities (11) have a bottom (110) of which the points that are innermost in the tread are at a distance (H1) from the tread surface (20) in the new state, the internal cavities (12) having a bottom (120) of which the innermost points are at a distance (H22) from the same tread surface (20). The external cavities (11) and the internal cavities (12) being connected together by linking cavities (13). The tread (2) being such that at least two sipes (31, 32) are formed from the bottom (110) of the external cavities (11) and along an entire length (Le) of these external cavities (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Tony ZIVKOVIC, Philippe GERVAIS, Guillaume BACHER
  • Patent number: 10308073
    Abstract: A tire with radial carcass reinforcement, comprising a crown reinforcement, itself capped radially by a tread connected to two beads by two sidewalls, the said tread comprising at least two radially superposed layers of polymer compound, a first layer of filled elastomeric compound, constituting the radially outer part of the tread, has a macrodispersion score Z higher than 80 and a maximum tan(?) value, denoted tan(?)max, lower than 0.130 and a second layer of elastomeric compound radially on the inside of the said first layer of elastomeric compound has an elongation at break at 60° C. that is higher than 600%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Gervais, Alain Durand
  • Publication number: 20180240311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for triggering one or several actions complementary to those triggered by an application method implemented by an electronic device. The invention further relates to a system including one or several electronic devices implementing said method triggering complementary actions to cooperate with one or several communicating electronic peripherals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: ORGANISATION MECANOGRAPHIQUE ET COMPTABLE GERVAIS OMC GERVAIS
    Inventors: Philippe GERVAIS, Stéphane VARTANIAN
  • Patent number: 10023011
    Abstract: A tire the tread of which contains at least three circumferential grooves, having at least three radially superposed layers of elastomeric compounds. A first elastomeric compound constituting the first layer forming the radially outer part of the tread has a maximum value of tan(?)max, greater than 0.110, a second elastomeric compound constituting the second layer radially on the inside has a tan(?)max at least 10% lower than the first elastomeric compound, the radially innermost third layer of the tread consists of at least two first parts and of at least three second parts axially, each one in contact with at least one of the at least two first parts, the at least two first parts axially centered on a radial plane passing through one of the at least three circumferential grooves consisting of the second compound and the at least three second parts consisting of a third elastomeric compound having a maximum value of tan(?), denoted tan(?)max, at least 10% lower than the second elastomeric compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Christophe Gayton, Philippe Gervais, Hichem Rehab
  • Publication number: 20170008345
    Abstract: A tire the tread of which contains at least three circumferential grooves, having at least three radially superposed layers of elastomeric compounds. A first elastomeric compound constituting the first layer forming the radially outer part of the tread has a maximum value of tan(?)max, greater than 0.110, a second elastomeric compound constituting the second layer radially on the inside has a tan(?)max at least 10% lower than the first elastomeric compound, the radially innermost third layer of the tread consists of at least two first parts and of at least three second parts axially, each one in contact with at least one of the at least two first parts, the at least two first parts axially centered on a radial plane passing through one of the at least three circumferential grooves consisting of the second compound and the at least three second parts consisting of a third elastomeric compound having a maximum value of tan(?), denoted tan(?)max, at least 10% lower than the second elastomeric compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicants: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A., COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Christophe GAYTON, Philippe GERVAIS, Hichem REHAB
  • Publication number: 20150000845
    Abstract: Variable-diameter building drum intended for the manufacture of a green tire having a generally cylindrical receiving surface formed of radially mobile sectors and bearing elements the radially external part of which constitutes the receiving surface, the receiving surface comprising at least one circular groove containing an elastic circumferential sleeve which is held radially away from the bottom of the groove by pushers able to move radially with respect to the mobile sectors so as to align the radially external surface of the sleeve with the receiving surface when the drum is brought to a first laying diameter, and which is pressed against the bottom of the groove under the effect of circumferential elastic tensions when the drum is placed at a laying diameter greater than the said first laying diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Gervais, Alain Durand
  • Publication number: 20140332132
    Abstract: A tire with radial carcass reinforcement, comprising a crown reinforcement, itself capped radially by a tread connected to two beads by two sidewalls, the said tread comprising at least two radially superposed layers of polymer compound, a first layer of filled elastomeric compound, constituting the radially outer part of the tread, has a macrodispersion score Z higher than 80 and a maximum tan(?) value, denoted tan(?)max, lower than 0.130 and a second layer of elastomeric compound radially on the inside of the said first layer of elastomeric compound has an elongation at break at 60° C. that is higher than 600%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Compagnie Generale des Establissements Michelin
    Inventors: Philippe Gervais, Alain Durand
  • Patent number: 7461678
    Abstract: A tire includes a radial carcass reinforcement surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement including a working reinforcement having two working crown plies of calendered inextensible metallic reinforcement elements and rubber mix. The reinforcement elements are parallel to each other within each ply and are crossed from one ply to the next, forming with the circumferential direction respective angles ?1 and ?2 of between 10° and 45°. The working crown plies have respective axial widths L1 and L2. The tire also includes a protective ply of metallic reinforcement elements with an axial width L3 such that L2<L3, L2 being the width of the working ply adjacent to the protective ply. A layer of cohesive rubber mix GB is arranged radially internal to the working reinforcement such that the axially outer end of the layer GB is at a distance from the equatorial plane greater than L1/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Stèphane Callamand, Philippe Gervais
  • Patent number: 7243695
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tire in which at least one first profiled element P of rubber mix separates the axially widest ply of reinforcement elements from at least one end of a second ply, axially narrower than the axially widest ply, the axially outer end of said first profiled element P being located at a distance from the equatorial plane of the tire which is less than the distance between said plane and the end of the axially widest ply of reinforcement elements, said profiled element P being radially separated at least in part from the liner C of said axially narrower ply of reinforcement elements by a second profiled element of rubber mix G, and said first and second profiled elements of rubber mix P and G and said liner C having secant modules of elasticity under tension at 10% elongation MP, MG, MC respectively such that MC?MG>MP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Gervais, Lucien Bondu
  • Publication number: 20060180257
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, surmounted by a crown reinforcement comprising at least two plies of reinforcement elements which are parallel to each other within each ply, said two plies being of unequal axial widths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Gervais, Lucien Bondu
  • Publication number: 20060032571
    Abstract: A tire P, comprising a radial carcass reinforcement surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement consisting of at least one working reinforcement formed of at least two plies of calendered inextensible metallic reinforcement elements, of rubber mix, which are parallel to each other within each ply and are crossed from one ply to the next, forming with the circumferential direction angles ?1 and ?2 of between 10° and 45°, said working plies having axial widths L1 and L2, and of at least one supplementary ply, referred to as a protective ply, of axial width L3 such that L2<L3, L2 being the width of the working ply adjacent to the protective ply, and comprising metallic reinforcement elements. According to the invention, a layer of cohesive rubber mix GB is arranged radially to the inside of the working reinforcement, such that the axially outer end of said layer GB is at a distance from the equatorial plane greater than L1/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique, S.A.
    Inventors: Stephane Callamand, Philippe Gervais
  • Patent number: 6935394
    Abstract: A tire for vehicles carrying heavy loads, comprising in at least one bead an additional reinforcement composed of a plurality of discontinuous reinforcing elements, these discontinuous reinforcing elements being orientated essentially circumferentially to form a plurality of circles C, C1, C2 concentric on the rotation axis of the tire mounted on its rim, each circle being defined by a mean radius (R, R1, R2) measured relative to the said rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Durif, Gilles Sallaz, Philippe Gervais
  • Publication number: 20050087281
    Abstract: A tire for vehicles carrying heavy loads, comprising in at least one bead an additional reinforcement composed of a plurality of discontinuous reinforcing elements, these discontinuous reinforcing elements being orientated essentially circumferentially to form a plurality of circles C, C1, C2 concentric on the rotation axis of the tire mounted on its rim, each circle being defined by a mean radius (R, R1, R2) measured relative to the said rotation axis, and wherein each discontinuous reinforcing element of length L0 located on a circle C of radius R is mechanically coupled over coupling lengths L11 and L12 with two discontinuous reinforcing elements located on a circle C1 of radius R1, this circle being immediately adjacent to the circle C, the coupling length L11 being between 55 and 75% of L0 and the coupling length L12 being between 10 and 30% of L0; each discontinuous reinforcing element on the same circle C of radius R is mechanically coupled over coupling lengths L21 and L22 with two discontinuous r
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Durif, Gilles Sallaz, Philippe Gervais
  • Patent number: D604691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Michelin-Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Philippe Gervais