Patents by Inventor Antoine Vandekerckhove

Antoine Vandekerckhove 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).

  • 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
  • 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