The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Frederic Ngo

Sebastien Willy Fontaine

Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte

Frank Helmut Bucher

Jeremy Pierre Haas

Armand René Gabriel Leconte

Julien Vito Proietti

William Urbano Villamizar

Kanwar Bharat Singh

Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque

Mihir Singh Meetarbhan

Claude Ernest Felix Boes

Alexander Ossipov

Manfred Josef Jung

Thomas Charles Pierre Roland

Bingshan Han

Franck Tuccella

Samir Bensalah

Marco Johannes Oliver Horsch

Gregory Jardot

Etienne Besnoin

Andreas Imandt

Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron

Franck Reygrobellet

Marc Becker

Anthony William Parsons

Nizar Toumni

Michel Mottard

Ralf Reinardt

Pierre Vincent Veronique Ghislain Philipin

Pierre Joseph Trine

Jonathan Daniel Azar

Roman Goerl

Jean Woelffel

Christophe Balducci

Florian Roth

Didier Barriere

Sebastien Morin

Bastian Andreas Grauel

Selcuk Ata

Philipp Weber

Stéphane Laurent Claude Bokken

Paul Joseph Endres

Matthias Milse

Sameer Gupta

Jean-Claude Kreutz

Viktor Pranas Vogel

Sebatien Willy Fontaine

Eduard Robert Geerdink

Duong Tung Tran

Philippe Joseph Willy Proehs

Jeroen Rigole

Olivier Ruffier-Lanche

Raphael Alexander Prohl

Moritz Bruckner

Rebecca Anne Bandy

Claude Bach

Patrick François Willems

Mustafa Baris Kaya

Vincent Jean-Emile Decouvreur

Bodo Aherns

Romain Lamacz

Jean-Francois Vandeclee

A wheel assembly having a wheel rotation axis; a rim with an outer surface around the wheel rotation axis; wherein the outer surface comprising suction ports; two tires mounted on the outer surface of the rim; a particle collector adapted to trap particles entering said particle collector; a particle suction system with a bladed suction structure configured for generating a suction air flow in the rim upon rotation of said bladed suction structure about the wheel rotation axis; an air passage connecting the suction ports to the bladed suction structure via the particle collector in order to suck particles through the suction ports by means of the suction air flow generated by the bladed suction structure.

Vehicle wheel with a particle collector

Tire sidewall

Tire

A system for sensing tire parameters in the remote monitoring and management of a fleet of autonomous vehicles is provided. The system includes at least one autonomous vehicle that is supported by at least one tire. At least one sensor is affixed to the tire for sensing tire parameters. Means are provided for communicating data generated by the sensor to a control system on the vehicle, and a mobile network receives the sensor data from the vehicle control system. A fleet management server receives the sensor data from the mobile network, and means are provided to generate commands for the autonomous vehicle in real time based upon the data generated by the sensor. A method for sensing tire parameters in the remote monitoring and management of a fleet of autonomous vehicles is also provided.

System and method for tire sensor-based autonomous vehicle fleet management

A tire for an autonomous vehicle includes a pair of sidewalls that extend to a ground-engaging tread. The tread includes a plurality of hexagonally-shaped tread elements, and the tire includes an outer diameter that is at least four times larger than a width of the tread. Selected hexagonally-shaped tread elements may be formed with features to increase traction on icy roads.

Tire for autonomous vehicle

An assembly determines operating parameters of a tire. The assembly includes a tripod sensor mounted within an inner cavity of the tire underneath a crown portion and an innerliner on which the tripod sensor is mounted. The tripod sensor includes a tri-axial accelerometer for creating a circumferential signal for determining slip ratio, a lateral signal for determining a slip angle, and a radial signal for determining load on the tire.

Tire sensor for a tire monitoring system

A support assembly for a vehicle travels along a road surface and rotates relative to the road surface and the vehicle. The first support assembly includes a spherical tread layer for contacting the road surface, a foam layer adjacent the spherical tread layer, the foam layer including adjustable elements for altering an outer physical contour of the spherical tread layer, the outer physical contour contacting the road surface, a spherical wheel/tire for supporting the spherical tread layer and the vehicle, and a drive system magnetically driving rotation of the spherical wheel/tire relative to the vehicle such that no portion of the spherical tread layer physically contacts the vehicle.

Spherical wheel/tire assembly

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Blaschette, Luxembourg

Frederic Ngo