US Patent Issued to HUTCHINSON on May 26 for "Run flat device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,916, issued on May 26, was assigned to HUTCHINSON (Paris).

"Run flat device" was invented by Marie Pages (Conflans Ste Honorine, France), Vincent Joseph (Montargis, France) and Etienne Breton (Escalquens, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A run flat device intended to be mounted in a tyre around a wheel rim of a vehicle, the device comprising at least one assembly of two half-shells assembled axially, each half-shell being made of a composite material based on fibres embedded in a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin, each half-shell comprising a radially internal periphery a radially external periphery and a lateral wall connecti...