Patents Assigned to NACON
  • Patent number: 11648463
    Abstract: A game controller includes an assembled shell and at least one control member which passes through the assembled shell and includes, outside the assembled shell, a head for manipulating the control member. The head is pivotable in all directions from a rest position into which it returns in a rotationally elastic manner. The game controller further includes at least one adjusting element for adjusting the stop angle (?) of the control member and is able to be removably mounted on the control member and removed from the control member without disassembling the shell of the game controller. The control member is provided with the removable adjusting element tiltable in each tilt direction until it reaches a stop position in which the adjusting element abuts and allows the tilting of the control member to be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NACON
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Antoine Vandekerckhove, Valentin Delrue, Yannick Allaert
  • Patent number: 11547934
    Abstract: A game controller (1) including an assembled shell (2) and at least one pivoting control member (3) which passes through the assembled shell (2) and can be tilted manually in all directions from a rest position into which it returns in a rotationally elastic manner. For each pivoting control member (3), the game controller includes at least one removable first head (32A) and one removable second head. The two removable heads have different dimensions so as to obtain different values for the stop angle of the control member (3) in relation to its rest position when the control member (3) is tilted in abutment in the stop position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NACON
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Antoine Vandekerckhove, Valentin Delrue, Yannick Allaert
  • Patent number: 11311802
    Abstract: A method for controlling a position of a display element, comprising the steps: —measuring a position of a control lever, —projecting the position of the lever into a base plane, in order to determine a first set of coordinates, —determining a circle of positions, —determining a square circumscribing the circle of positions, —projecting, onto the circumscribed square, at least one coordinate of the first set of coordinates, —calculating a second set of coordinates in a Cartesian frame of reference, on the basis of the projection of the at least one coordinate of the first set of coordinates onto the circumscribed square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Nacon SAS
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Yannick Allaert, Alexandre Notebaert, Stephen Dudoyer
  • Publication number: 20210379488
    Abstract: A game controller (1) including an assembled shell (2) and at least one pivoting control member (3) which passes through the assembled shell (2) and can be tilted manually in all directions from a rest position into which it returns in a rotationally elastic manner. For each pivoting control member (3), the game controller includes at least one removable first head (32A) and one removable second head. The two removable heads have different dimensions so as to obtain different values for the stop angle of the control member (3) in relation to its rest position when the control member (3) is tilted in abutment in the stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NACON
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Antoine Vandekerckhove, Valentin Delrue, Yannick Allaert
  • Publication number: 20210354030
    Abstract: A game controller includes an assembled shell and at least one control member (3) which passes through the assembled shell and includes, outside the assembled shell, a head (32) for manipulating the control member (3), which is pivotable in all directions from a rest position into which it returns in a rotationally elastic manner. The game controller further includes at least one adjusting element (5A) for adjusting the stop angle (?) of the control member (3), able to be removably mounted on the control member (3) and removed from the control member (3) without disassembling the shell of the game controller; the control member (3) provided with said removable adjusting element (5A) tiltable in each tilt direction until it reaches a stop position in which the adjusting element (5A) abuts and allows the tilting of the control member (3) to be blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: NACON
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Antoine Vandekerckhove, Valentin Delrue, Yannick Allaert
  • Patent number: 11077372
    Abstract: A control process of a display element, the process comprising the steps: measuring a position of a control lever, projecting in a base plane the position of the lever to determine a first set of coordinates, determining a homothetic figure on a mechanical stop of the lever, determining a circumscribed square on the homothetic figure, projecting onto the circumscribed square at least one coordinate of the first set of coordinates, calculating a second set of coordinates in a Cartesian reference frame, on the basis of the projection of said at least one coordinate of the first set of coordinates on the circumscribed square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NACON SA
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Yannick Allaert, Alexandre Notebaert, Stephen Dudoyer
  • Patent number: 7246174
    Abstract: A Virtual Access Core (VAC) manages and controls access to virtual machines. A Virtual Instruction Routine (VIR) protocol is used by all components of the system to pass instructions and information about a Virtual Session. The VAC issues commands in the VIR protocol language causing virtual machines to start and stop. A VIR host that hosts virtual machines responds to VAC commands. Web clients access the system via links, which a web server uses to send access requests to the VAC. The VAC responds by searching through process memory and database tables for information about free slots on a plurality of VIR hosts grouped into a Host Array. When one or more free slots have been identified, the VAC issues VIR Protocol commands instruction one or more VIR Hosts to load and start specific virtual machines in Specific Slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Nacon Consulting, LLC
    Inventors: John R. Sciandra, Brian Cottrell, John Sabean