Patents by Inventor Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel 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: 10017016Abstract: An air maintenance tire assembly having an elongate air pumping sidewall air passageway includes an inlet air passage screw assembly inserted through a tire sidewall profiled bore to conduct air from outside the tire into a regulator positioned within a tire cavity. The screw assembly includes a screw body having at an outer end a large-diameter filter housing, a smaller-diameter midsection shank portion, and an inner large-diameter valve housing connecting to the regulator within the tire cavity. A valve mechanism seats within the valve housing and moves between an open position conducting air from the screw body into the regulator assembly and a closed position preventing a backflow of air from the regulator assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Ralf Reinardt, Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin, Jason Mark Middelberg, Frank Pierre Severens, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Publication number: 20170036501Abstract: An air maintenance tire assembly having an elongate air pumping sidewall air passageway includes an inlet air passage screw assembly inserted through a tire sidewall profiled bore to conduct air from outside the tire into a regulator positioned within a tire cavity. The screw assembly includes a screw body having at an outer end a large-diameter filter housing, a smaller-diameter midsection shank portion, and an inner large-diameter valve housing connecting to the regulator within the tire cavity. A valve mechanism seats within the valve housing and moves between an open position conducting air from the screw body into the regulator assembly and a closed position preventing a backflow of air from the regulator assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Ralf Reinardt, Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin, Jason Mark Middelberg, Frank Pierre Severens, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Patent number: 9333817Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall, an annular tire cavity, and a hydraulic actuator connected to the sidewall inside the annular tire cavity, wherein the hydraulic actuator has a flexible reservoir for containing a hydraulic fluid, and an opening allowing hydraulic fluid to enter the reservoir and to exit the reservoir. Further, the hydraulic actuator comprises a lever arm connected to the sidewall and holding the flexible reservoir between the lever arm and the sidewall, wherein the lever arm comprises a fluid channel allowing hydraulic fluid to flow from the reservoir through the opening out of the lever arm.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Edwin Deerenberg, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Patent number: 9233582Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to a regulator device. The regulator device regulates the inlet air flow to the air tube and the outlet air flow to the tire cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Gauthier Piret, William Alain Talbot, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Publication number: 20150165839Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to a regulator device. The regulator device regulates the inlet air flow to the air tube and the outlet air flow to the tire cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Gauthier Piret, William Alain Talbot, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Patent number: 9056435Abstract: A pneumatic tire assembly includes a pneumatic tire having an inner cavity and an inner surface at least partially defining the inner cavity, a rigid structure for facilitating operation of the tire assembly, and a docking base for securing the rigid structure to the inner surface of the inner cavity. The docking base has been integrally bonded to the inner surface during curing of the pneumatic tire. The docking base has a shape formed by a mold attached to the inner surface of the inner cavity during curing of the pneumatic tire. The mold subsequently is removed thereby resulting in the docking base integrally secured to the inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Gilles Bonnet
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Publication number: 20150137420Abstract: A pneumatic tire assembly includes a pneumatic tire having an inner cavity and an inner surface at least partially defining the inner cavity, a rigid structure for facilitating operation of the tire assembly, and a docking base for securing the rigid structure to the inner surface of the inner cavity. The docking base has been integrally bonded to the inner surface during curing of the pneumatic tire. The docking base has a shape formed by a mold attached to the inner surface of the inner cavity during curing of the pneumatic tire. The mold subsequently is removed thereby resulting in the docking base integrally secured to the inner surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Gilles Bonnet
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Publication number: 20150122391Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall, an annular tire cavity, and a hydraulic actuator connected to the sidewall inside the annular tire cavity, wherein the hydraulic actuator has a flexible reservoir for containing a hydraulic fluid, and an opening allowing hydraulic fluid to enter the reservoir and to exit the reservoir. Further, the hydraulic actuator comprises a lever arm connected to the sidewall and holding the flexible reservoir between the lever arm and the sidewall, wherein the lever arm comprises a fluid channel allowing hydraulic fluid to flow from the reservoir through the opening out of the lever arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Edwin Deerenberg, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Patent number: 8875762Abstract: An air maintenance tire and connector system includes a tire carcass having an elongate integral air passageway contained within a flexible tire component of the tire carcass between an air inlet and an air outlet cavity and a connector assembly inserted within an outlet one of the cavities. The connector assembly includes a hollow right angled elbow-shaped body fitting within the outlet cavity. The elbow-shaped body's second housing segment has an axial length sufficient to project axially inward from the first housing segment through a tire wall thickness to a tire central cavity. A valve device attaches to a remote end of the second housing segment within the tire cavity, the valve device operative to regulate air flow between the elbow-shaped body central chamber and the tire cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Olivier Di Prizio, Gilles Bonnet, Andreas Frantzen, Raphael Beck, Patrice Clausse
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Publication number: 20140130357Abstract: A pneumatic tire assembly includes a pneumatic tire having an inner cavity and an inner surface at least partially defining the inner cavity, a rigid structure for facilitating operation of the tire assembly, and a docking base for securing the rigid structure to the inner surface of the inner cavity. The docking base has been integrally bonded to the inner surface during curing of the pneumatic tire. The docking base has a shape formed by a mold attached to the inner surface of the inner cavity during curing of the pneumatic tire. The mold subsequently is removed thereby resulting in the docking base integrally secured to the inner surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Gilles Bonnet
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Patent number: 8651155Abstract: An air-maintenance tire system includes a compression actuator mounted to the tire carcass configured for operative actuation by tire deformation during a tire revolution, a pump assembly affixed to the tire carcass and including a compressor body affixed to the compression actuator and having an internal air chamber, the air chamber having an inlet opening for admitting air into the internal air chamber and an outlet opening for conducting air from the internal air chamber to the tire cavity. The air compressor body further includes a piston valve member and an outlet valve member located within and at opposite respective ends of the internal air chamber, the piston valve member and the outlet valve member moving within the internal air chamber responsive to actuation by the compression actuator between respective open and closed positions, whereby cyclically opening and closing the inlet and the outlet openings during an air compression cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Publication number: 20130160927Abstract: A method of constructing a tire includes: constructing an elongate strip core; encasing the strip core into a containment within an uncured flexible tire component, the strip core extending between an air inlet and an air outlet cavity in the flexible tire component; building on a tire building drum a green tire carcass from tire components including the flexible tire component and encased strip core; removing the encased strip core from the cured flexible tire component to leave within the flexible tire component a substantially unobstructed air passageway; and inserting a permanent air inlet assembly into the air inlet cavity and a permanent air outlet assembly into the air outlet cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Gilles Bonnet, Olivier Di Prizio, Lois Levy, Marcel Przibilla, Jean-Claude Patrice Philippe Griffoin, André Cuny, Gauthier Piret, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Andreas Frantzen, Raphael Beck, Etienne Besnoin, Ralf Reinardt
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Publication number: 20130160918Abstract: An air maintenance tire and connector system includes a tire carcass having an elongate integral air passageway contained within a flexible tire component of the tire carcass between an air inlet and an air outlet cavity and a connector assembly inserted within an outlet one of the cavities. The connector assembly includes a hollow right angled elbow-shaped body fitting within the outlet cavity. The elbow-shaped body's second housing segment has an axial length sufficient to project axially inward from the first housing segment through a tire wall thickness to a tire central cavity. A valve device attaches to a remote end of the second housing segment within the tire cavity, the valve device operative to regulate air flow between the elbow-shaped body central chamber and the tire cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel, Olivier Di Prizio, Gilles Bonnet, Andreas Frantzen, Raphael Beck, Patrice Clausse
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Publication number: 20120241063Abstract: An air-maintenance tire system includes a compression actuator mounted to the tire carcass configured for operative actuation by tire deformation during a tire revolution, a pump assembly affixed to the tire carcass and including a compressor body affixed to the compression actuator and having an internal air chamber, the air chamber having an inlet opening for admitting air into the internal air chamber and an outlet opening for conducting air from the internal air chamber to the tire cavity. The air compressor body further includes a piston valve member and an outlet valve member located within and at opposite respective ends of the internal air chamber, the piston valve member and the outlet valve member moving within the internal air chamber responsive to actuation by the compression actuator between respective open and closed positions, whereby cyclically opening and closing the inlet and the outlet openings during an air compression cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel