Patents by Inventor Antoine Oriac

Antoine Oriac has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Adjustable steering column for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 8403364
    Abstract: An adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle has a support assembly intended to be fixed to a chassis of a vehicle, a tubular body slidably mounted in the support assembly, adjustment and locking devices able to switch from a state of a adjusting the position of the tubular body in the support assembly to a state of immobilizing the tubular body in a desired adjusted position within the support assembly, a plastically deformable energy-absorbing element collaborating with a deformation member secured to the tubular body so that it undergoes plastic deformation as the tubular body retracts inside the support assembly following an impact transmitted to the tubular body when the adjustment and locking devices are in the locked state and a ratchet mechanism for securing the plastically deformable element to the support assembly during plastic deformation of the plastically deformable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Systemes de Direction Nacam SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Monteil, Nicolas Genet, Antoine Oriac
  • ADJUSTABLE STEERING COLUMN FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20110210536
    Abstract: An adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle has a support assembly intended to be fixed to a chassis of a vehicle, a tubular body slidably mounted in the support assembly, adjustment and locking devices able to switch from a state of a adjusting the position of the tubular body in the support assembly to a state of immobilizing the tubular body in a desired adjusted position within the support assembly, a plastically deformable energy-absorbing element collaborating with a deformation member secured to the tubular body so that it undergoes plastic deformation as the tubular body retracts inside the support assembly following an impact transmitted to the tubular body when the adjustment and locking devices are in the locked state and a ratchet mechanism for securing the plastically deformable element to the support assembly during plastic deformation of the plastically deformable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: ZF SYSTEMES DE DIRECTION NACAM SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Monteil, Nicolas Genet, Antoine Oriac