Patents by Inventor Vincent Hunault

Vincent Hunault 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: 9145494
    Abstract: A rubber composition which can be used in particular in tires, based on at least one diene elastomer, one reinforcing filler, one crosslinking system, one phenolic resin and one polyaldehyde. The use of a polyaldehyde makes it possible to advantageously replace conventional methylene donors while preventing the production of formaldehyde during the vulcanization of the rubber compositions and thus to limit the environmental impact of these compounds. Furthermore, these polyaldehyde compounds make it possible not only to obtain rubber compositions exhibiting the same low-strain stiffness as conventional rubber compositions using HMT or H3M methylene donors but also, surprisingly, to greatly improve the fatigue strength of the rubber compositions and thus the endurance of the tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignees: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A., COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Anne Veyland, José Carlos Araujo Da Silva, Vincent Hunault
  • Patent number: 8877839
    Abstract: A rubber composition which can be used in particular in tires, based on at least one diene elastomer, one reinforcing filler, one crosslinking system, between 1 and 20 phr of an epoxide resin and between 1 and 15 phr of an amine-comprising curing agent. The pair formed of epoxide resin with an amine-comprising curing agent advantageously replaces the pair formed of phenollformaldehyde resin, which is a methylene acceptor, with the curing agent(s) HMT or H3M, which are conventional methylene donors. The use of this pair of reactants, epoxide resin and amine-comprising curing agent, makes it possible to obtain rubber compositions exhibiting a greater low-strain stiffness in comparison with conventional rubber compositions, without significantly damaging the hysteresis. Moreover, the combination of a phenolic resin, which is a methylene acceptor, with HMT or H3M, which is a methylene donor, produces formaldehyde during the vulcanization of the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Techniques S.A.
    Inventors: Anne Veyland, Vincent Hunault, Jose Carlos Araujo Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20120283360
    Abstract: A rubber composition which can be used in particular in tires, based on at least one diene elastomer, one reinforcing filler, one crosslinking system, between 1 and 20 phr of an epoxide resin and between 1 and 15 phr of an amine-comprising curing agent. The pair formed of epoxide resin with an amine-comprising curing agent advantageously replaces the pair formed of phenol/formaldehyde resin, which is a methylene acceptor, with the curing agent(s) HMT or H3M, which are conventional methylene donors. The use of this pair of reactants, epoxide resin and amine-comprising curing agent, makes it possible to obtain rubber compositions exhibiting a greater low-strain stiffness in comparison with conventional rubber compositions, without significantly damaging the hysteresis. Moreover, the combination of a phenolic resin, which is a methylene acceptor, with HMT or H3M, which is a methylene donor, produces formaldehyde during the vulcanization of the rubber composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Anne Veyland, Vincent Hunault, Jose Carlos Araujo Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20120283372
    Abstract: A rubber composition which can be used in particular in tires, based on at least one diene elastomer, one reinforcing filler, one crosslinking system, one phenolic resin and one polyaldehyde. The use of a polyaldehyde makes it possible to advantageously replace conventional methylene donors while preventing the production of formaldehyde during the vulcanization of the rubber compositions and thus to limit the environmental impact of these compounds. Furthermore, these polyaldehyde compounds make it possible not only to obtain rubber compositions exhibiting the same low-strain stiffness as conventional rubber compositions using HMT or H3M methylene donors but also, surprisingly, to greatly improve the fatigue strength of the rubber compositions and thus the endurance of the tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Anne Veyland, José Carlos Araujo Silva, Vincent Hunault
  • Publication number: 20120196976
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an adhesive composition between a vulcanized rubber part and an uncured or prevulcanized or vulcanized rubber part, based on at least one highly unsaturated elastomer chosen from the group formed by natural rubber, polyisoprene, polybutadiene, styrene-butadiene, styrene-isoprene and butadiene-isoprene copolymers and styrene-butadiene-isoprene terpolymers, an aliphatic solvent and a “curing” system comprising at least one stable aryl dinitrile oxide compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicants: Michelin Rechercheet Technique S.A., Societe De Technologie Michelin
    Inventors: José Carlos Araujo Da Silva, Vincent Hunault, Pierre Robert, Anne Veyland