Patents by Inventor Yves Potin

Yves Potin 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: 20240067140
    Abstract: A device for preventing excessive increase of an internal pressure of a rolling assembly, the rolling assembly having a rotation axis and comprising a wheel and a tire, the tire being mounted onto the wheel creating an inner cavity surrounded by a wheel internal surface and a tire internal surface, comprises a cold spot placed in the inner cavity of the rolling assembly for condensing vapor contained in a gas filled in the inner cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: PIERRE-ALEXIS TETAZ, MATHIEU GRANDEMANGE, REMI BOUARD, YVES POTIN
  • Patent number: 10696097
    Abstract: The tire has a load index that is at least 118 and two layers of reinforcing elements. Each of the layers has a breaking force per unit width that is higher than 2900 daN/dm. A minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of the second layer is greater than 20% of the minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of the first layer. The reinforcing elements of the first layer have a thread count that is higher than 300 tex. The reinforcing elements of the two layers have a thread count of less than 750 tex. The elongation of the reinforcing elements of the second layer are greater than 8% under a force of 20 daN and the secant elastic modulus values under tension at 10% elongation, Mt, Mj, satisfy the relationship Mt/Mj?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Francia, Yves Potin, Florian Vilcot
  • Patent number: 10654322
    Abstract: Each of at least two layers of a carcass reinforcement has a breaking force per unit width higher than 2250 daN/dm. The minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of a second layer of carcass reinforcement is strictly greater than a value equal to 20% of the minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of a first layer of carcass reinforcement. The reinforcing elements of the two layers of carcass reinforcement have a thread count of less than 750 tex. The elongation of the reinforcing elements of the second layer of carcass reinforcement is greater than 4% under a force of 20 daN, and the secant elastic modulus values under tension at 10% elongation, Mt, Mj, satisfy the relationship Mt/Mj?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Francia, Yves Potin, Florian Vilcot
  • Publication number: 20180354306
    Abstract: The tire has a load index that is at least 118 and two layers of reinforcing elements. Each of the layers has a breaking force per unit width that is higher than 2900 daN/dm. A minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of the second layer is greater than 20% of the minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of the first layer. The reinforcing elements of the first layer have a thread count that is higher than 300 tex. The reinforcing elements of the two layers have a thread count of less than 750 tex. The elongation of the reinforcing elements of the second layer are greater than 8% under a force of 20 daN and the secant elastic modulus values under tension at 10% elongation, Mt, Mj, satisfy the relationship Mt/Mj?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Marc FRANCIA, Yves POTIN, Florian VILCOT
  • Publication number: 20170348932
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tire includes steps of: providing a shoulder drum that includes shoulders having a height of at least equal to 25 mm; placing a carcass ply of a green tire on the shoulder drum; providing a winding of circumferential bead reinforcers around each end of the carcass ply, each winding having a number of turns providing a winding of circumferential bead reinforcers against each shoulder of the shoulder drum, each winding being in a spiral; and forming the green tire such that each end of the carcass ply does not have a turnup around the circumferential bead reinforcers, and the circumferential bead reinforcers are positioned in the green tire in a defined layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: FRÉDÉRIC PIALOT, GÉRARD BOR, YVES POTIN, THOMAS FABRE, MATTHIEU LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20170326921
    Abstract: Each of at least two layers of a carcass reinforcement has a breaking force per unit width higher than 2250 daN/dm. The minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of a second layer of carcass reinforcement is strictly greater than a value equal to 20% of the minimum strength per unit width, measured for an elongation of less than 10%, of a first layer of carcass reinforcement. The reinforcing elements of the two layers of carcass reinforcement have a thread count of less than 750 tex. The elongation of the reinforcing elements of the second layer of carcass reinforcement is greater than 4% under a force of 20 daN, and the secant elastic modulus values under tension at 10% elongation, Mt, Mj, satisfy the relationship Mt/Mj?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Marc FRANCIA, Yves POTIN, Florian VILCOT, Stephane LE CAM
  • Publication number: 20150035251
    Abstract: An anti-fall device for a two-wheeled vehicle intended to prevent the vehicle and the rider thereof from falling when the camber angle reaches the limiting angle corresponding to the limit of grip of the tires, for a given circular trajectory and a given coefficient of grip, while enabling this limiting angle to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yves Potin, Eric Durand, Daniel Beaulaton
  • Publication number: 20110168315
    Abstract: A bicycle tire comprising a carcass reinforcement, each edge of which is anchored in two beads by a turn-up around a bead core, each bead being continued radially by sidewalls which lead into a tread. Each of the bead cores is formed by winding a saturated non-wrapped metal cable made of filaments, the diameter of said cable being less than 1.5 mm and the diameter of the filaments being less than 0.25 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicants: SOCIETE DE TECHNOLOGIE MICHELIN, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Yves Potin
  • Publication number: 20080087365
    Abstract: A tire includes a crown reinforcement provided with a cord forming a plurality of circumferential turns, the cord disposed on opposite sides of a median zone of the tire. The circumferential tension of the cord varies axially along the tire. The circumferential tension of the cord on one side of the median zone diminishes in a direction directed away from one edge of the tire from an edge tension value to an inflection tension value, then increases in that same direction to a median zone tension value greater than the inflection tension value, and then decreases in that same direction back to the inflection tension value at the opposite side of the median zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventor: Yves Potin
  • Patent number: 6880601
    Abstract: A tire including two beads which are intended to be in contact with seats of a mounting rim and two sidewalls, this tire including first reinforcing threads forming a carcass reinforcement, each bead including an anchoring structure for the carcass reinforcement formed of at least one circumferentially oriented second reinforcing thread cooperating with an adjacent portion of the carcass reinforcement by means of an anchoring rubber material having an elasticity modulus at 10% deformation at least equal to 30 MPa, wherein this tire includes, at least axially on one side of the anchoring structure of the carcass reinforcement, a rubber mix referred to as a “decoupling mix”, this decoupling mix having an elasticity modulus, at 10% deformation, less than half of the elasticity modulus of the anchoring mix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Yves Potin
  • Publication number: 20040112498
    Abstract: A tire comprising two beads which are intended to be in contact with seats of a mounting rim and two sidewalls, this tire comprising first reinforcing threads forming a carcass reinforcement, each bead comprising an anchoring structure for the carcass reinforcement formed of at least one circumferentially oriented second reinforcing thread cooperating with an adjacent portion of the carcass reinforcement by means of an anchoring rubber material having an elasticity modulus at 10% deformation at least equal to 30 MPa, this tire being characterized in that it comprises, at least axially on one side of the anchoring structure of the carcass reinforcement, a rubber mix referred to as a “decoupling mix”, this decoupling mix having an elasticity modulus, at 10% deformation, less than half of the elasticity modulus of the anchoring mix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: Yves Potin
  • Patent number: D1003230
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Arnaud Frappart, Yves Potin