US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on May 13 for "Rotor with anti-wear device and fixation system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,505, issued on May 13, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Rotor with anti-wear device and fixation system" was invented by Bruno Dussardier (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Cedric Carlavan (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Yves Liais (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Crescence Weber (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the field of mixing rubber mixtures, a rotor (100), for use in an internal mixer having a mixing vessel in which the rotor rotates, includes one or more blades (104), each blade having a tip (104a) with a profile having a predefined curvature and an anti...