Mounting member having a continuous curvature
AssigneesCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
InventorReda El-Berrichi
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Abstract
A member (12) forming a mount for a device (26) includes: a substantially flat bottom surface (16) for connection with a tire, delimited by a contour (20), a top surface (24) for mounting the device (26), delimited by a contour (30), a peripheral surface (34) forming a skirt for connecting of the contour (20) of the bottom surface (16) to the contour (30) of the top surface (24), in which the contour (30) of the top surface (24) has a variable curvature and has a continuous variation along the contour.
Claims15
A member forming a mount for a device, comprising:
- a flat bottom surface for connecting with a tyre, the flat bottom surface facing the tyre and being delimited by a bottom surface perimeter contour;
- a top surface for mounting the device directly thereon, the top surface having an elongate shape, the top surface being an uppermost surface of the member, and the top surface being delimited by a top surface perimeter contour having curved end portions that are positioned on opposite short ends of the top surface;
- and
- a peripheral surface forming a skirt for connecting the bottom surface perimeter contour to the top surface perimeter contour,
- wherein
- (i) a curvature of at least the end portions of the top surface perimeter contour has a continuous variation along an entirety thereof, or
- (ii) a curvature of any cross-sectional profile of the skirt that intersects both the top surface perimeter contour and the bottom surface perimeter contour and is perpendicular to the bottom surface perimeter contour has a continuous variation along an entirety of the cross-sectional profile, or
- (iii) both (i) and (ii).
A tyre comprising a member forming a mount for a device, the member including:
- a flat bottom surface for connecting with a tyre, the flat bottom surface facing the tyre and being delimited by a bottom surface perimeter contour;
- a top surface for mounting the device directly thereon, the top surface having an elongate shape, the top surface being an uppermost surface of the member, and the top surface being delimited by a top surface perimeter contour having curved end portions that are positioned on opposite short ends of the top surface;
- and
- a peripheral surface forming a skirt for connecting the bottom surface perimeter contour to the top surface perimeter contour,
- wherein
- (i) a curvature of at least the end portions of the top surface perimeter contour has a continuous variation along an entirety thereof, or
- (ii) a curvature of any cross-sectional profile of the skirt that intersects both the top surface perimeter contour and the bottom surface perimeter contour and is perpendicular to the bottom surface perimeter contour has a continuous variation along an entirety of the cross-sectional profile, or
- (iii) both (i) and (ii).
A member forming a mount for a device, comprising:
- a flat bottom surface for connecting with a tyre, the flat bottom surface facing the tyre and being delimited by a bottom surface perimeter contour;
- a top surface for mounting the device directly thereon, the top surface having an elongate shape, the top surface being an uppermost surface of the member, and the top surface being delimited by a top surface perimeter contour having curved end portions that are positioned on opposite short ends of the top surface;
- and
- a peripheral surface forming a skirt for connecting the bottom surface perimeter contour to the top surface perimeter contour,
- wherein
- (i) a curvature of at least the end portions of the top surface perimeter contour has a continuous variation along an entirety thereof, or
- (ii) any cross-sectional profile of the skirt that intersects both the top surface perimeter contour and the bottom surface perimeter contour and is perpendicular to the bottom surface perimeter contour has a continuous variation along an entirety of the cross-sectional profile, or
- (iii) both (i) and (ii).
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