Patents by Inventor Serge Nicolas
Serge Nicolas 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: 8419022Abstract: A motor vehicle wheel set-up via a wheel holder is provided, which wheel holder is associated with the vehicle via at least one pivot in such a way that the plane of the wheel can exhibit first and second angular running positions. The set-up further has a binary actuator that has a fixed component and a moving component capable of translational movement with respect to the fixed component, moving component being secured to the wheel holder and the actuator comprising a device for the binary control of the moving member placing it in one of two stable states each allowing the wheel holder to be moved into an angular position corresponding to one angular position of the wheel plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Societe de Technologie Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Michel Blondelet, Serge Nicolas
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Patent number: 8197242Abstract: A device for continuously sheathing a ply of threads, said ply being formed by an array of approximately mutually parallel threads. The device includes a thread guide, a coating chamber into which a first feed channel and a second feed channel run, which are independent of each other, connected to a first feed device and to a second feed device respectively and capable of delivering a first material and a second material under pressure and with a defined flow rate, and the outlets of which channels are placed above and below the plane of the ply of threads, and an output die. Pressure-measuring device, connected to a controller for controlling the pressure of each of the feed devices, are placed in the coating chamber facing and in line with each other, on either side of the plane of the ply and in the immediate vicinity of the outlet for the feed channels.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventor: Serge Nicolas
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Publication number: 20110308454Abstract: A device for continuously sheathing a ply of threads, said ply being formed by an array of approximately mutually parallel threads. The device includes a thread guide, a coating chamber into which a first feed channel and a second feed channel run, which are independent of each other, connected to a first feed device and to a second feed device respectively and capable of delivering a first material and a second material under pressure and with a defined flow rate, and the outlets of which channels are placed above and below the plane of the ply of threads, and an output die. Pressure-measuring device, connected to a controller for controlling the pressure of each of the feed devices, are placed in the coating chamber facing and in line with each other, on either side of the plane of the ply and in the immediate vicinity of the outlet for the feed channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventor: Serge NICOLAS
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Publication number: 20110259828Abstract: The present invention relates to an agglomerated zeolite adsorbent containing at least one polymer matrix that is greatly laden with at least one zeolite adsorbent. The invention also relates to the method for preparing such an adsorbent and to the uses thereof, particularly as an adsorbent of moisture, odors, volatile organic components, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Inventors: Ludivine Bouvier, Serge Nicolas, Alice Medevielle, Patrick Alex
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Publication number: 20110256454Abstract: The present invention relates to a masterbatch in agglomerated solid form comprising: a) carbon nanofibers and/or nanotubes and/or carbon black, the content of which is between 15 wt % and 40 wt %, preferably between 20 wt % and 35 wt %, relative to the total weight of the masterbatch; b) at least one solvent; c) at least one polymer binder, which represents from 1 wt % to 40 wt %, preferably from 2 wt % to 30 wt % relative to the total weight of the masterbatch. The present invention also relates to a concentrated masterbatch, characterized in that it is obtained by eliminating all or part of the solvent from the masterbatch described previously. It also relates to a process for preparing said masterbatches and to the uses of the latter, especially in the manufacture of an electrode or of a composite material for an electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: Arkema FranceInventors: Serge Nicolas, Alexander Korzhenko, Amelie Merceron, Mickael Havel, Yvan Lecomte
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Patent number: 7993558Abstract: A device for continuously sheathing a ply of threads, said ply being formed by an array of approximately mutually parallel threads. The device includes a thread guide, a coating chamber into which a first feed channel and a second feed channel run, which are independent of each other, connected to a first feed device and to a second feed device respectively and capable of delivering a first material and a second material under pressure and with a defined flow rate, and the outlets of which channels are placed above and below the plane of the ply of threads, and an output die. Pressure-measuring device, connected to a controller for controlling the pressure of each of the feed devices, are placed in the coating chamber facing and in line with each other, on either side of the plane of the ply and in the immediate vicinity of the outlet for the feed channels.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventor: Serge Nicolas
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Patent number: 7857499Abstract: A viscoelastic material is extruded by kneading-and-conveying screws of different respective diameters positioned coaxially and telescopingly. A flight trough of a larger-diameter screw has radial orifices allowing a first space swept by the flight of the larger-diameter screw to communicate with a second space swept by a flight of a smaller-diameter screw. A fixed cylindrical tube arranged coaxially with the screws is disposed radially between the first and second spaces within the region in which the screws telescope. The tube has radial apertures therethrough to conduct material from the orifices to the second space. The first space is closed off at an axial end thereof by a wall where foreign substances accumulate that do not pass through the orifices. A passage through the wall can be opened to remove the accumulated substances without interrupting the extrusion operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Gérard Crosnier, Bruno Dussardier
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Publication number: 20100304140Abstract: The invention relates to a zeolite of the faujasite X type having a low silica content, more precisely a zeolite LSX having a Si/Al atomic ratio lower than or equal to 1.15, having a high crystallinity rate and whereof the crystals have a controlled particle size distribution. The present invention also relates to the method for preparing said zeolite LSX.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Ludivine Bouvier, Serge Nicolas, Guy-Henri Durand
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Publication number: 20100156057Abstract: A motor vehicle wheel set-up via a wheel holder is provided, which wheel holder is associated with the vehicle via at least one pivot in such a way that the plane of the wheel can exhibit first and second angular running positions. The set-up further has a binary actuator that has a fixed component and a moving component capable of translational movement with respect to the fixed component, moving component being secured to the wheel holder and the actuator comprising a device for the binary control of the moving member placing it in one of two stable states each allowing the wheel holder to be moved into an angular position corresponding to one angular position of the wheel plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicants: SOCIETE DE TECHNOLOGIE MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Michel Blondelet, Serge Nicolas
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Patent number: 7708547Abstract: A method of the type in which a strip of rubber is moved continuously from a rubber-supplier device to a consumer device. During the continuous movement and prior to reaching the consumer device, a portion, referred to as the residue, is taken continuously from the strip of rubber. The residue is taken by continuously cutting the strip of rubber. For example, the supplier device includes upstream storage means for storing the strip of rubber from which the strip is moved toward the extruder, and downstream storage means in which the residue is stored. After the strip of rubber on the upstream storage means has been used up, the upstream and downstream storage means are swapped with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Gérard Crosnier, Daniel Goy
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Patent number: 7641752Abstract: A mechanism for laying a strip on a receiving surface rotating about a first axis. The mechanism includes a laying head moving along a second axis oriented parallel to the axis of rotation of the surface and along a third axis oriented parallel to a radial direction passing through the point of contact between the receiving surface and a strip applicator of the laying head. The laying head is rotatable about a front axis oriented substantially perpendicular to the second and third axes and passing through the contact point. the laying includes a device for estimating the value of the of the angle ? formed by a tangent to the transverse profile of the surface and the second axis. The movements of the laying head are determined by the value of the angle ? in such a way as to displace the laying head in a direction parallel to the tangent following the transverse profile of the receiving surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Michelin-Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Nicolas Chevaux, Patrice Monnereau
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Publication number: 20080295953Abstract: A device for continuously sheathing a ply of threads, said ply being formed by an array of approximately mutually parallel threads (F). The device comprises a thread guide (35), a coating chamber (31) into which a first feed channel (10) and a second feed channel (20) run, which are independent of each other, connected to a first feed means (13) and to a second feed means (23) respectively and capable of delivering a first material (A) and a second material (B) under pressure and with a defined flow rate, and the outlets (11, 21) of which channels are placed above and below the plane of the ply of threads (F), and an output die. Pressure-measuring means (12, 22), connected to a controller for controlling the pressure of each of the feed means (13, 23), are placed in the coating chamber (31) facing and in line with each other, on either side of the plane of the ply and in the immediate vicinity of the outlet for the feed channels (11, 21).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventor: Serge Nicolas
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Publication number: 20080202666Abstract: To recap a tire, hot rubber mix is applied under pressure to a receiving surface of the tire from a collecting b block disposed thereagainst while relative rotation occurs between the block and the tire. The block is configured to cause the hot mix to be pressurized as it approaches an exit orifice of the block which forms the hot mix into strip form, whereby the strip has a width less than one-tenth of the width of the receiving surface that is to be covered by hot mix.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventor: Serge Nicolas
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Publication number: 20080197527Abstract: A method of the type in which a strip of rubber is moved continuously from a rubber-supplier device to a consumer device. During the continuous movement and prior to reaching the consumer device, a portion, referred to as the residue, is taken continuously from the strip of rubber. The residue is taken by continuously cutting the strip of rubber. For example, the supplier device includes upstream storage means for storing the strip of rubber from which the strip is moved toward the extruder, and downstream storage means in which the residue is stored. After the strip of rubber on the upstream storage means has been used up, the upstream and downstream storage means are swapped with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Gerard Crosnier, Daniel Goy
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Publication number: 20080068919Abstract: A viscoelastic material is extruded by kneading-and-conveying screws of different respective diameters positioned coaxially and telescopingly. A flight trough of a larger-diameter screw has radial orifices allowing a first space swept by the flight of the larger-diameter screw to communicate with a second space swept by a flight of a smaller-diameter screw. A fixed cylindrical tube arranged coaxially with the screws is disposed radially between the first and second spaces within the region in which the screws telescope. The tube has radial apertures therethrough to conduct material from the orifices to the second space. The first space is closed off at an axial end thereof by a wall where foreign substances accumulate that do not pass through the orifices. A passage through the wall can be opened to remove the accumulated substances without interrupting the extrusion operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Gerard Crosnier, Bruno Dussardier
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Publication number: 20070199661Abstract: Apparatus designed for laying a strip on a rotating receiving surface S, comprising a laying head (100) moving along axes XX? parallel to the axis of rotation of the surface (S) and YY? parallel to a radial direction passing through the point of contact Q between the strip application means (112) and the receiving surface (S), and capable of moving in rotation about an axis AA? substantially perpendicular to the above axes and passing through the point Q. The laying head comprises a device allowing estimation of the value of the angle ? formed by the tangent TT? to the transverse profile of the surface S and the axis XX?. The movements of the laying head are determined by the value of the angle ? in such a way as to displace the latter in a direction parallel to TT? following the transverse profile of the receiving surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2004Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Nicolas Chevaux, Patrice Monnereau
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Patent number: 7052267Abstract: An extrusion device (1) for manufacturing a product based on a rubber mix, which comprises a rotary roller (5), an inlet orifice (15) for the rubber mix and a vault (6) partially circumferentially covering the external surface (51) of the roller (5), the rubber mix being driven from the inlet orifice (15) into the air gap situated between the vault (6) and the roller (5) towards an extrusion orifice (21) defining the profile of the product. The extrusion orifice is delimited by a wall (20) which cooperates with the external surface (51) of the roller (5), and the vault (6) carries on its internal surface oriented towards the roller projecting threads in order to delimit with the surface (51) of the roller a chamber for plasticization of the mix, at least two of the threads extending substantially axially of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Philippe Lamoine, Gérard Crosnier, Serge Nicolas
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Publication number: 20060102264Abstract: Tyre intended for mounting on a wheel and designed to support a load, consisting of a crown zone (S) with an outer surface intended to come in contact with the ground and comprising means to enable electricity to be conducted between the ground and a bead area (B) designed to ensure contact between the wheel and the tyre, whose constituent (5) in contact with the wheel is electrically conductive, and a sidewall zone (F) designed to connect the crown zone (S) to the bead area (B), characterised in that the constituents of the sidewall zone (F) are made from materials with very low electrical conductivity and the tyre comprises at least one conductive strip (8), of small thickness and width, made from an electrically conductive material and arranged radially along a path that extends from the interior part of the crown zone (S), with which it is in contact, to the bead area (B), where it is in contact with the said constituent (5) designed to be in contact with the wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventor: Serge Nicolas
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Publication number: 20050230031Abstract: During procedure such as a tire-recapping procedure, a strip of hot rubber mix of small width and thickness is applied by a collection block to a receiving surface of the tire as the tire is rotated relative to the collecting block. The hot rubber mix is supplied to the collecting block by an extrusion screw. The mix is advanced by the receiving surface through an extrusion orifice which forms the strip. A front surface of the collecting block converges toward an inlet of the extrusion orifice, causing the mix to be pressurized as a function of: the degree of convergence of the front wall and the speed of the receiving surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventor: Serge Nicolas
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Patent number: 6951233Abstract: A tire having a tread composed of two non-conductive layers, each layer containing a circumferential insert of conductive mix, the inserts having a wider interface at the interface of the two layers. An apparatus for extruding a layer, provided with a conductive insert, including a main extruder for extruding a non-vulcanized, non-conductive layer, and a micro-extruder having an extrusion head, provided at its end with a nozzle, for extruding a conductive insert in the layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin-Michelin & CIEInventors: Didier Calvar, Serge Nicolas, Daniel Bardy